First United Methodist Church

Organized in February 1845 as the Kingsborough Methodist Episcopal Church, South, this congregation had as its first pastor the Rev. Wm. K. Wilson. In 1850, Kingsborough, the county seat, was renamed Kaufman. The present site was purchased and the first building erected in 1857, with the Rev. J. A. Scruggs as pastor. A second building, a traditional steepled white frame structure, was built in 1876 at a cost of $400, with the Rev. O.P. Thomas as pastor. The present brick building was erected in 1909 at a cost of $13,000, when the Rev. A.R. Nash was pastor, and it was redecorated in 1968, with the Rev. E.H. Cole as pastor.

Kaufman, Texas · United States