Reverend Moses Hampton Denman

Reverend Moses Hampton Denman was born in Gumlock Creek, Franklin County, Georgia on May 8, 1803, and moved with his first wife, Elizabeth Randle, to Cherokee County, Texas, in 1849. There he established a large plantation and ran a general store with the help of his two oldest sons, Jackson Harvey and Felix Gilbert. In 1857 the family moved to adjacent Houston County, where they lived for another decade before moving to Bell County. Before her death in 1861, Elizabeth had given birth to twelve children. A few months later, Denman married Mary Hall, the twenty-four-year-old daughter of a neighbor; she bore him four children and died in 1867. Denman then moved out of Houston County, married a third time, to Laura Ann McMinn, who bore him ten children, and became a prominent farmer in the Cowhouse Valley of Bell County, where he also founded Liberty Hill Baptist Church, the first church in the valley. He built a log cabin in Cowhouse Valley. Moses H. Denman died on Feb. 24, 1885, and was buried in Denman Farm Cemetery at Sparta while serving as pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist Church. Laura was buried beside him, and after Sparta was inundated, their graves were moved and reinterred in Resthaven Cemetery near Belton.

Salado, Texas · United States