Footprints of Fayette

Union Church with the shutters of five large widows on the west side tilted open for air circulation. There are also three small windows across the upper front. Photo Courtesy of First Presbyterian Church
Union Church with the shutters of five large widows on the west side tilted open for air circulation. There are also three small windows across the upper front. Photo Courtesy of First Presbyterian Church

The Union Church of La Grange

Presbyterians worshipped in Texas from as early as 1826, when Stephen Townsend and much of his extended family left Florida and came to Texas. On July 18, 1944, the La Grange Intelligencer printed an article “that the Cumberland Presbyterian Camp Meeting commences today near Rabb’s Prairie. Sinners, you are particularly invited that you and the Christian may reason tog…