Jesse Graham

Jesse Graham, a noted Coryell County pioneer and pastor, was born in North Carolina, moved with his family to Tennessee and then to Alabama, where he married Martha Jane Fanning and became a Primitive Baptist minister. By 1850, he and his wife, who would have twelve children, were in Texas. In 1855, they moved to Coryell County and settled along Brown's Creek. The next year, Graham organized Sugarloaf Baptist Church, which he pastored, and he also helped establish Rainey's Creek Baptist Church. Elder Jesse Graham served as a circuit-riding preacher to a large portion of central Texas. After his death, he was buried in Graham Cemetery before being reinterred in Restland Cemetery.

Gatesville, Texas · United States