S. B. Austin Dade County, Georgia/Tx
Who is SB Austin and is he connected to Oak Hill Cemetery/School in Cooke County Tx.
OAK HILL/AUSTIN CHAPEL
In the year of 1871 twelve families and several single persons, in the town of Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia, decided to head west to seek their fortune. They loaded their belongings and themselves into forty different vehicles, buggies, wagons and ox carts, pulled by mules, oxen and horses. After a difficult trip, that lasted a little over three months, they decided to settle in what was then the Great Prairie of Texas.
The leader of the caravan was S.B. Austin. He organized a church, which met, in his home. He donated two acres of property north of his home for a church building. A log building was erected and the first service was held in it in February of 1872. The church was named Oak Hill, Methodist Church South. They took the name Oak Hill for the home church they left behind in Georgia. It has been reported that they had forty charter members when the church was organized.