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Bear Creek Methodist Church and Cemetery
Contributed by: Colin Malone

German immigrants settled in the area surrounding the Junction of Langham and Bear Creeks in the 1840's. Settlers travelers 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 member's homes. The church was subsequently made a mission of the Rose Hill Methodist Church near Tomball.

In 1890 a small church building was erected near the Hillendahl Family Cemetery. The site proved to be poorly drained and often inaccessible, and 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.
(1974)

Bear Creek Methodist Church & Cemetery Historical Marker

Bear Creek Methodist Church & Cemetery - Text Files
File Name & Description Image Date Submitted
ADDICKS, Emil L. Photo 09/10/2008
ADDICKS, Henry John Photo 09/10/2008
ADDICKS, Louise Photo 09/10/2008
BABCOCK, Maurice A. & Mary Price Photo 09/10/2008
BACKEN, Alfred & Ella Sabine Photo 09/10/2008
BACKEN, Carl A. Photo 09/10/2008
BACKEN, Christine Mathilda Photo 09/10/2008
BACKEN, June Ella Photo 09/10/2008
BAUTSCH, Doris Photo 09/10/2008
BAUTSCH, Ferdinand Photo 09/10/2008
BAUTSCH, Grace Photo 09/10/2008
BECKENDORF, August A. & Selma H. Photo 09/10/2008
BECKENDORF, Edward & Elizabeth Photo 09/10/2008
BECKENDORF, Rev. Fritz & Mary Photo 09/10/2008
BECKENDORF, Harvey Otto & Willie Mae Heldberg Photo 09/10/2008
BECKENDORF, Ora Lee Laverne Photo 09/10/2008
BELTZ, Herman Photo 09/10/2008
BINGHAM, Baby Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Adolph Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Alma Holm Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Catherine
w/o Fred Brandt		 Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Charlie L. Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Emma Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Fred D. Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Henrietta Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Hulda Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Ida Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Laura M. & Arnold F. Photo 09/10/2008
BRANDT, Lydia E. Photo 09/10/2008
BROWN, Nellie M. & George H. Photo 09/10/2008
CASEY, Woodrow Photo 09/10/2008
CHENEYWORTH, L. E. Photo 09/10/2008
COOPER, Lillie Gray Photo 09/10/2008
CRABTREE, Berlon Dee Photo 09/10/2008
CRABTREE, Sterling H. & Rose Helen Photo 09/10/2008
DAVIS, Irene L. Photo 09/10/2008
DAVIS, Samuel J. Photo 09/10/2008
DOEGE, Aline J. Photo 09/10/2008
DOEGE, Janice Ann Photo 09/10/2008
DOEGE, Mary Photo 09/10/2008
DOEGE, Otto L.
DOEGE, Otto L.		 Photo
Photo		 09/10/2008
DOEGE, Sophia Hulda Photo 09/10/2008
DUBOSE, Dora E. Photo 09/10/2008
EBEL Alvina A.
EBEL Alvina A. - Photo		 Photo
Photo		 09/10/2008
EBEL, Ernest C. Photo 09/10/2008
EBEL, Fritz G. Photo 09/10/2008
EBEL, John F. Photo 09/10/2008
FEUERSCHUTZ, Dorthea Photo 09/10/2008
FOSTER, Maxine Photo 09/10/2008
FRANKLIN, William R. Photo 09/10/2008
FRANZ, Peter D. & Anna Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Dorthea
w/o Charles Golbow		 Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Henry Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Jesse Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Larry J. Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Stanley Joseph Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Susana Nee Koch
w/o Henry Golbow		 Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Susie Photo 09/10/2008
GOLBOW, Thomas John Photo 09/10/2008
GREEN, Indran Logan Photo 09/10/2008
GRISBEE, Henry Ludwig Photo 09/10/2008
GRISBEE, Hermenia E. & John F. Photo 09/10/2008
GRISBEE, Mable Mae Photo 09/10/2008
GRISBEE, Ubert Photo 09/10/2008
GRISBEE, William H. & Hulda Dora Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Baby Girl Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Chas W.
Woodmen of the World Memorial		 Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Dorathea Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Edward C. Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, George & Katie Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Louis E. & Ida A. Photo 09/10/2008
GROSCHKE, Walter Photo 09/10/2008
GUMMERT, Bertha Maria & Arthur Paul
GUMMERT, Arthur Paul - Millitary Marker		 Photo
Photo		 09/10/2008
GUMMERT, Christine & Ernst A. Photo 09/10/2008
GUMMERT, Junior Arthur Photo 09/10/2008
HAMMOND, Mattie F. & William & Woodrow W., Sr. Photo 09/10/2008
HAMMOND, Mattie F. Photo 09/10/2008
HAMMOND, William Photo 09/10/2008
HAMMOND, Woodrow W., Sr.
Military Marker		 Photo 09/10/2008
HARPER, Martha Kobs Photo 09/10/2008
HIGGINS, Baby Photo 09/10/2008
HIGGINS, Carl E. & Louise Helena Photo 09/10/2008
HIGGINS, Infant Daughter
d/o Milton & Helen Higgins		 Photo 09/10/2008
HILLENDAHL, George & Dina
HILLENDAHL Children: George, Amalie, Louis, Dora, Hogo, Conrad		 Photo
Photo		 09/10/2008
HILLENDAHL, Kate M. & Walter C. Photo 09/10/2008
HOEHMANN, Ida Grisbee Groschke Photo 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Alvin
Nov 25, 1910 - Nov 22, 1912 - Baby		 -- 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Emil F.
Mar 05, 1876 - Apr 27, 1943 "Father"		 -- 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Katie Photo 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Lena Photo 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Oscar R. Photo 09/10/2008
HOFFMAN, Willie Photo 09/10/2008
HOPKINS, Dorothy Madge Photo 09/10/2008
ISAAS, Mrs. Photo 09/10/2008
JAMES, Elsie S.
Oct 1921 - May 1980		 -- 09/10/2008
JOHNSON, Anna Photo 09/10/2008
JOHNSON, Peter Photo 09/10/2008
JORDEN, Elizabeth E. Photo 09/10/2008
JORDEN, Gabriel Photo 09/10/2008
JORDENS, Anna Photo 09/10/2008
JORDENS, Armeda Photo 09/10/2008
JORDENS, Dorothy L. Photo 09/10/2008
JORDENS, Joseph Photo 09/10/2008
KAY, Betty Ann Photo 09/10/2008
KAY, Danny Edwin Photo 09/10/2008
KAY, Joan Arlene Photo 09/10/2008
KAY, Tucker & Hilda B. Photo 09/10/2008
KNIGGE, Henry Photo 09/10/2008
KNIGGE, Theresa Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Annie Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Carrie Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Dorothea Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Edwin H. Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Fredrick Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Gus Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Hilda Zorn Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, Sabina Photo 09/10/2008
KOBS, W. F. Photo 09/10/2008
KOCH, Joseph F., Rev. Photo 09/10/2008
KOCH, Ludwig & Lydia Photo 09/10/2008
KOEHN, Mary Mrs. Photo 09/10/2008
KOINM, Minnie M. Photo 09/10/2008
KOINM, Roy J. Photo 09/10/2008
KRAUEL, Minnie Auga
Aug 06, 1860 - Aug 21, 1925 - w/o William Krauel		 Photo 09/10/2008
KRAUEL, William
Jan 30, 1850 - Dec 28, 1920		 Photo 09/10/2008
KROEGER, Hans Photo 09/10/2008
KROEGER, Henry Photo 09/10/2008
KRUSE, Baby Photo 09/10/2008
KRUSE, Henry
Sep 15, 1850 - Mar 25, 1931		 --- 09/10/2008
KRUSE, Louis Henry & Rosa Marie Photo 09/10/2008
KRUSE, Pauline
Jun 06, 1890 - Aug 22, 1913 "Mother"		 Photo 09/10/2008
KRUSE, W. H.
Mar 03, 1881 - Oct 03, 1910 "Father"		 Photo 09/10/2008
KRUSE, Wilhelmene Photo 09/10/2008
KUNKEL, Alanzo J. Photo 09/10/2008
KUNZE, Charles A. Photo 09/10/2008
KUNZE, Sophie Photo 09/10/2008
KUTSCHBACH, Earline Frieda & Albert Henry, Sr. Photo 09/10/2008
LEITING, Wallace F. & D. Elaine Photo 09/10/2008
LEWIS, Juanita Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Carl F. & Eva S. Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Henry Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Herman & Wilhemine Zessin Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Herman, Jr. & Velma Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Joyce Novas Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Nettie Dora Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Walter Herbert & Dorothy Wood Photo 09/10/2008
LIERE, Wilma Photo 09/10/2008

LILJEBLAD, Nils

 Photo 09/10/2008
MARKS, Albert
Military Marker - C.S.A. 		Photo 09/10/2008
MARKS, Minnie Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Amelia Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Elizabeth Helena Anna Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Ernest Gustav & Ethel Pearl Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Ernst Wilhelm & Ann Rosina Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Johanna Hermine Ella Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Lewis William Photo 09/10/2008
MATZKE, Sabine Emelle Ernestine Photo 09/10/2008
MCANELLY, Robert Van Photo 09/10/2008
MOEHLE, Alfred Rusche
Military Marker		 Photo 09/10/2008
MOEHLE, Margaret Rodgers Photo 09/10/2008
MOHLE, Alfred D.,  Rev. & Emma A. Photo 09/10/2008
NAVA, Rafael Ramirez Photo 09/10/2008
OTTE, Kate & August Photo 09/10/2008
PARKS, Augusta S. & James G. Photo 09/10/2008
PARRISH, Orene Mae
Mar 16, 1915 - Jan 25, 2000		 Photo 09/10/2008
PRICE, Chris Anthony (Mikey) Photo 09/10/2008
PRICE, Jacky K. Photo 09/10/2008
PRICE, John W., Sr.
Military Marker		 Photo 09/10/2008
PRICE, Mary E. Photo 09/10/2008
QUADE, Amelia Schultz
w/o Samuel Quade		 Photo 09/10/2008
QUADE, Emilie Charlette Photo 09/10/2008
QUADE, John S. Photo 09/10/2008
QUADE, Samuel Photo 09/10/2008
RADCILFF, Silas Wesley & Ruby Emma Photo 09/10/2008
REHFIELD, Gladia Naomi Photo 09/10/2008
ROMERO, Argimiro Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT CEMETERY, Remains Moved Here in 1983 Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Dena Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Eddie Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Henry, Jr.
In Loving Memory of Our Son		 -- 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Henry, Sr. & Katie Nightengale Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Susie Becker Photo 09/10/2008
SCHMIDT, Tobias A. Photo 09/10/2008
SERVIERE, Anna Fonburg Photo 09/10/2008
SPECKMAIER, August Edwin Photo 09/10/2008
SPECKMAIER, David E. Photo 09/10/2008
SPECKMAIER, Henry & Frieda Photo 09/10/2008
STORY, Gloria Kruse Photo 09/10/2008

STROOPE, Mildred Koch

 Photo 09/10/2008
TAMPKE, Milton Oliver
Nov 19, 1911 - Dec 23, 1912		 Photo 09/10/2008
TELLEZ, Andres T. Photo 09/10/2008
TITEL, Baby Boy Photo 09/10/2008
TITEL, Clara Photo 09/10/2008
TITEL, Gus Photo 09/10/2008
TITEL, Ida Photo 09/10/2008
TITEL, Shrley Photo 09/10/2008
Unmarked -- 09/10/2008
Unmarked -- 09/10/2008
Unmarked -- 09/10/2008
Unmarked -- 09/10/2008
WAGONER, Herschel T. Photo 09/10/2008
WEDEL, David Photo 09/10/2008
WEDEL, Mrs. Andrew Photo 09/10/2008
WIEMAN, Alberta Hegar Photo 09/10/2008
WISE, Baby Wise
- Nov 30, 1921		 Photo 09/10/2008
WOHLT, Anna Rosalina & Heinrich Christoph K. Photo 09/10/2008
WOHLT, Wesley J. Photo 09/10/2008
YARBOROUGH, Herbert Lee & Anita Higgins Photo 09/10/2008
ZADIK, Aline E. Photo 09/10/2008
ZADIK, Joseph Lee Roy, Sr.  Photo 09/10/2008
ZADIK, Joseph Lee Roy, Jr. Photo 09/10/2008
ZADIK, Myrtle Bennett Photo 09/10/2008
ZERGER, Hazel Faye (Dover) Photo 09/10/2008
ZORN, Barbara Delores Photo 09/10/2008
ZORN, Emma & Herman F. Photo 09/10/2008
ZORN, Harold Edward Photo 09/10/2008
ZORN, Max Photo 09/10/2008

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