A Building’s Beginnings:

ID: 2890 ~ Source: Long, Clemmie Holloway and Willie Long Smith. Interviewed by Rebecca M. Sharpless. April 16, 1985. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
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Clemmie Holloway Long tells of the church’s developments over time, describing when St. James began its move from the location on the Brazos River to the building on Second and Clay.

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By Allie Roberts
St. James United Methodist Church, originally a Methodist Episcopal church, has existed almost as long as the city of Waco itself. Founded in 1874 by Anderson Brack, a formerly enslaved man, the congregation started with roughly fifty-three members.…