Bear Creek Methodist
Church & Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
German immigrants settled in the area
surrounding the junction of Langham and Bear creeks in the 1840s.
Settlers traveled to nearby churches for Sunday services until about
1879 when seven charter members established the Bear Creek German
Methodist Church. The congregation initially met in members' homes. The
church was subsequently made a mission of the Rose Hill Methodist Church
near Tomball. In 1900 a small church building was erected near the
Hillendahl Family Cemetery. The site proved to be poorly drained and
often inaccessible, and in 1902 the congregation moved the sanctuary
here on three acres donated by Fred and Katherine Brandt. A part of the
acreage was laid out as a cemetery. Christine Backen's burial in 1904
was the first recorded here. The cemetery is still active and is
maintained by the Addicks Bear Creek Cemetery Association. A summer
storm destroyed the sanctuary in 1915 but by the end of that year a new
church building had been erected. Area flooding in 1935 resulted in the
construction of the nearby Addicks Reservoir in 1940 and the subsequent
removal of the church to another site about 1.7 miles south of here. The
congregation changed its name to Addicks United Methodist Church in
1968.
1994
location: SH 6 just north of Patterson Rd. at
Groschke Rd. |
