Freestone County

Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church and Cemetery

Historical Marker Text

Among oldest in county. Founded Dec. 3, 1853, by the Lee families, Elders Thomas Dossey and C. T. Echols certifying to constitution of church. Elder Dossey named it. Five-acre site given by W. H. McSwane family. First building of logs was replaced later by frame structure. The present chapel was erected in 1961.

1967

location: from Teague, take FM 80 south about 5 mi. to CR 731, go east about 1 mi. to church and cemetery