Freestone County, Texas
Churches 


Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
at Cotton Gin
 
[Note - Trinity University is located at Tehuacana, Navarro County, Texas.]


Source:

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church  
by Benjamin Wilburn McDonnold, D.D., LL.D.
Fourth Edition

Nashville, Tenn: Cumberland Presbyterian Church Board of Publication 
 1899

[Page 557]
  " TRINITY UNIVERSITY
  
  ...
  Only one man, Judge D. M. Prendergast, of Mexia, has been a member of the
Board of Trustees for the whole nineteen years of the history of the 
institution.  He has served the board as president since 1885.  It had 
previously two presidents.  The first was J. S. Mills, M.D., who moved from
Tennesse to Cotton Gin, Freestone County, Texas, in 1848, and was a ruling
elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church at that place until his death,
which occurred at his home, August 6, 1877.  He served as President of the
Board of Trustees from its organization to his death.
  Judge L. B. Prendergast, second president of the board, was born in what is 
now Giles County, Tennessee, November 25, 1808.  

[Page 558]

His mother was a sister of the Rev. Samuel King.  He moved to Texas in 1839,
and was a ruling elder in the Cotton Gin congregation for many years before
and up to the time of his death.  He served as president of the board from
the death of Dr. Wills, in 1877, to his own death, March 23, 1885."