From the book Threadgills in America: a Colonial American Family, Book 2 (copyright 1971), Janis Heidenreich Miller and collaborators Francis Dycus Threadgill and Wordna (Threadgill) Wicker establish that their Caucasian ancestors, Stephen Alexander Kindred [1809-1869] and his wife Sarah nee Threadgill, [1810-1913]--with his sister-in-law Lucy nee Threadgill [1815-1888] (widow of Stephen Alexander Kindred's brother Peter Elisha Kindred [1811-1854)--joined together to build a Methodist Episcopal Church in the Peach Creek community in which they lived, and called it Andrew Chapel. The location of Andrew Chapel was just 8.5 miles southeast of the ghost town of Hopkinsville, Texas, and 3.5 miles southeast of the Town of Waelder in Gonzales County.
"About the winter of 1853-54, Stephen A. and Sarah Kindred, in company with her sister and his brother, Lucy and Peter Kindred, migrated to the new state of Texas to join her brother, Joshua Threadgill. Joshua had sent his family issues of the Gonzales Enquirer which extolled the many opportunities there. Stephen and Sarah Kindred settled on land in Gonzales, which Joshua had purchased for them acting as their agent. They lived there through 1860 but not found in records after that year. After their arrival in Texas, Stephen Kindred was ordained a Methodist Minister. Stephen and Sarah Kindred and Lucy Threadgill Kindred, widow of Peter E. joined in arranging for the building of a Methodist Church in the Peach Creek community in which they lived, calling it Andrews Chapel. It retains the name to this day and the building now serves as a negro Methodist Church."
More specifically, "In January or February 1854 the two Kindred brothers and family with slaves, went overland from Russell County, Ala. to Mobile, where they embarked for Texas. On the voyage several members of the party including Peter E. Kindred, contracted cholera and died before reaching Texas, and were buried at sea."
Lucy Threadgill Kindred continued the journey with her surviving children, her sister and brother-in-law. She set about making a home for her fatherless children on the property purchased by her brother, Joshua Threadgill. With the aid of her brother she made a comfortable home for her children, and saw to it that each received at least a basic education. The slaves were devoted to her, and some of them adopted the name Kindred after emancipation."
In terms of the cemetery that remains at the location of where Andrew Chapel stood, a chain link fence bisects the grounds, giving off the illusion that half of the cemetery is Andrew Chapel Cemetery--where white internments are found; and the other half where black-American internments are found--this was called Wesley Chapel.
History and Genealogy enthusiast, Charles Edward English of San Antonio, Texas, conveys that Wesley Chapel lost its church building, the first time, when it is said to have burned in February of 1896, and then rebuilt on the property on the land belonging to the black farmer Green Hardaway in District #2, by deed in 1901, i.e. the school was relocated. Finally, the Wesley Chapel CME Church and Schoolhouse was torn down in the 1940s due to abandonment. A water tank marks its spot today on the Green Hardaway Estate.
The Andrew Chapel Cemetery and Wesley Chapel Cemetery name was combined in 2009 to Andrew Wesley Chapel Cemetery by executive decision of the ground's Board of Directors, (communicated by Gonzales County resident, Eugene Wilson, 2011).
"About the winter of 1853-54, Stephen A. and Sarah Kindred, in company with her sister and his brother, Lucy and Peter Kindred, migrated to the new state of Texas to join her brother, Joshua Threadgill. Joshua had sent his family issues of the Gonzales Enquirer which extolled the many opportunities there. Stephen and Sarah Kindred settled on land in Gonzales, which Joshua had purchased for them acting as their agent. They lived there through 1860 but not found in records after that year. After their arrival in Texas, Stephen Kindred was ordained a Methodist Minister. Stephen and Sarah Kindred and Lucy Threadgill Kindred, widow of Peter E. joined in arranging for the building of a Methodist Church in the Peach Creek community in which they lived, calling it Andrews Chapel. It retains the name to this day and the building now serves as a negro Methodist Church."
More specifically, "In January or February 1854 the two Kindred brothers and family with slaves, went overland from Russell County, Ala. to Mobile, where they embarked for Texas. On the voyage several members of the party including Peter E. Kindred, contracted cholera and died before reaching Texas, and were buried at sea."
Lucy Threadgill Kindred continued the journey with her surviving children, her sister and brother-in-law. She set about making a home for her fatherless children on the property purchased by her brother, Joshua Threadgill. With the aid of her brother she made a comfortable home for her children, and saw to it that each received at least a basic education. The slaves were devoted to her, and some of them adopted the name Kindred after emancipation."
In terms of the cemetery that remains at the location of where Andrew Chapel stood, a chain link fence bisects the grounds, giving off the illusion that half of the cemetery is Andrew Chapel Cemetery--where white internments are found; and the other half where black-American internments are found--this was called Wesley Chapel.
History and Genealogy enthusiast, Charles Edward English of San Antonio, Texas, conveys that Wesley Chapel lost its church building, the first time, when it is said to have burned in February of 1896, and then rebuilt on the property on the land belonging to the black farmer Green Hardaway in District #2, by deed in 1901, i.e. the school was relocated. Finally, the Wesley Chapel CME Church and Schoolhouse was torn down in the 1940s due to abandonment. A water tank marks its spot today on the Green Hardaway Estate.
The Andrew Chapel Cemetery and Wesley Chapel Cemetery name was combined in 2009 to Andrew Wesley Chapel Cemetery by executive decision of the ground's Board of Directors, (communicated by Gonzales County resident, Eugene Wilson, 2011).