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Allen's Reminiscences of Texas, 1838-1842
I had just enough money to take me to Kentucky. Now I un-
derstand that the First Church in Houston has two hundred and
twenty members, and that a Second church has been organized.
The Presbyterian Church in Austin.l1-In October, 1839, just
as the yellow fever was breaking out in Houston, I set off on a
visit to Austin, a town about four months old. I had sent on an ap-
pointment some time before. I bought an Indian pony and took in a
campmeeting, at Rutersville, on the way. The campmeeting was in
brother Alexander's field. He was a good preacher and an excellent
man. He was aided by an old brother Haynie, a Doctor of Med-
icine, as well as preacher. He reminded me of Dr. Gideon Black-
burn in his personal appearance. Also, a brother Clark, from Ten-
nessee, was present. I spent Saturday and Sabbath and part of
Monday with the brethren, preaching once at the camp, and at
LaGrange on Sabbath evening. Spent a night at Bastrop, preaching
there, thence, in company with James Burke, to Austin, arriving
there Saturday about 10 o'clock a. m. A company was just gather-
ing to go out to Brushy creek to bury the bodies of the men killed
a few days before by the Indians. They were of the Webster
party, whom the Indians had killed. I saw Mrs. Webster and her
little girl a year after she had made her escape from the savages.
Truly her's was a tale of hardship.
On Sabbath, I preached in a large room of Bullock's hotel. In
the afternoon, we had another meeting, when we organized the First
Church in Austin. There were six members. Mr. Bullock and
James Burke, who had come to stay, were chosen ruling elders.
They had both been elders before. We then had the communion,
in which perhaps a dozen took part. It was truly a small begin-
iling, and fell into a syncope afterwards, when the government
and many citizens abandoned the Capital, alarmed by the Indians,
and ran off to Washington. Dr. Daniel Baker gave the cause a new
start. In his Biography, he speaks, or his son does for him, as if
there had been no organization previously. But I have given the
true history of the planting of the Presbyterian church in Austin.
The communion, that afternoon, in that large unfurnished room
of the Bullock house, was something that had never been wit-
nessed so far southwest by Protestants, on the American conti-
"Tewas Presbyterian, III, No. 22. July 26, 1878.293
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