Clara Brown-Hall-Trimble

 

Greetings Everyone, we’re fundraising for the maintenance and preservation of the OLD SPRING SEAT CEMETERY founded in the mid 1800’s in Buffalo, Freestone County Texas.

 

Your donations $Dollar, will help with the expense of mowing the grass outside of the cemetery, cutting down the overgrown weeds and trees that have grown around the graves, repair the cyclone fence around the cemetery yard or replacing it if necessary.

 

The history is, after a black man was lynched by white people and there was no place for him to be buried.  Mr. Ed  Adkins, allowed the man to be buried on his land, he saw the need for a cemetery and church in this community and donate five acres of his land. Thus began the Old Spring Seat Cemetery and later the Church.  Mr. Ed Adkins is the great grandfather of Joe A. Hall and my great, great grandfather. We have not forgotten our roots.

 

As the years passed and most of the people moved from the community the Old Spring Seat Cemetery Association was created in 1952. The organizers decided that the 4th Sunday in June every year, they would gather and pay tribute to our love ones. In the spring of 1999, someone burned down the historic Old Spring Seat Baptist Church. The arsonist’s match may have destroyed a building but is also made church members and their friends more determined to preserve the History of the church.  Consequently, under the leadership of President Joe A. Hall, donations were given to build the present Pavilion, where worship service is held now. (Review link; The Dallas Morning News 6/23/1999 PRESERVING A MEMORY newspaper article.)

 

This year’s fourth Sunday, June 26, 2022, we will have our 70th Church Memorial Service at Old Spring Seat. Theme: “A Past Worth Remembering”. You are welcome to join us at 1:00pm, location State Highway 164 South, Donie Texas 75838.

 

 

Old Spring Seat Baptist Church was burned down in the Spring of 1999 and a couple of years later this Pavilion was built in its place.

 

Cleaning my Father's grave.

 

( Click the link to read an article) Preserving a Memory 

 

 

 

 

Deacon Joe Alvis Hall, President of Old Spring Seat Baptist Church and Cemetery Association.  Deacon Larry Tatum, Treasurer