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Goliad's
Baptist Oak
Across from the fire station on the west side of Chilton Street -
one block from the town square.
TE photo, 2001 |
In 1847 the Reverend John Freeman Hillyer arrived from Galveston.
In addition to his pastoral duties, he was also an educator and physican.
He had left his pastorate in Galveston
to establish a college for women in Goliad
and this he accomplished with the help of local Baptists in February
of 1849.
The Hillyer Female College came into being on the first day of February
and three months later Pastor Hillyer organized the first Baptist
Church west of the Guadalupe
River.
The scene for the ceremony was under the branches of this Live Oak
tree on May the seventh 1849. Pastor Hillyer, his wife, two daughters
and seven others made up the charter congregation.
© John
Troesser |
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