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Historical Marker:
(Cemetery - 4 miles E of Celina
on FM 455, then S 2 miles on 2478)
Cottage Hill
Methodist Church and Cemetery
According to local
tradition this Methodist Church traces its origin to pioneer religious
gatherings organized by the Rev. John Culwell and held in the home
of his brother, Andrew J. Culwell, about 1846, and to the establishment
of Methodist campground meetings held at nearby Honey Creek about
1848. The first documentary mention of Cottage Hill Methodist Church
is contained in the minutes of the Trinity Conference held in Plano
in 1874. A church structure was built on land donated by F.F. Morrill
at this site in 1881; H.H. Sullivan served as pastor. The sizable
number of early headstones bearing the name Culwell and the many unmarked
graves surrounding the gravesite of Martha Culwell (d.1870), the cemetery's
earliest recorded interment, suggests that the Cottage Hill Cemetery
began as a family cemetery.
Although located adjacent to each other and believed to have been
connected as part of land deeded to the Cottage Hill Church during
the 1880s and 1890s, the church and cemetery have not been formally
associated since the establishment of the Cottage Hill Cemetery Association
in 1890. The church structure, renovated in 1946, continues to serve
the Cottage Hill Methodist Church.
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