According to local tradition, this congregation traces its beginning to Cedar Bridge Methodist Church, which held services just prior to the Civil War in a sanctuary near a cedar bridge constructed by pioneer settler E.T. Cox. Members of Cedar Bridge Methodist reportedly organized a Methodist church in nearby Mastersville in 1863, and local tradition claims that the 1863 Mastersville Methodist Church was the parent church of Bruceville Methodist Church. The earliest record of Mastersville Methodist is an 1865 notice of the Rev. J.L. Crabb's selection as pastor. Soon after the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad extended its tracks through here in 1881, many of Mastersville's citizens and businesses moved to be near the railroad. The town that developed was officially named Bruceville when a post office was granted in 1887, and it was named for Dr. Lucien N. Bruce, on whose land the railroad depot was built. The first Bruceville Methodist Church sanctuary was built sometime during the 1880s. A new church building erected at this site in 1895 served the congregation until 1983, when Bruceville Methodist Church merged with the nearby Eddy Methodist Church. The Bruceville Methodist Church building was later razed.