Joab H. Biggs
Joab and Matilda Biggs
REV. JOAB H. BIGGS
Newspaper, HISTORY OF FRISCO, TEXAS
The Rev. Joab H. Biggs was pastor of Dallas Circuit in 1847-48, but later settled down in Collin County as a local preacher. At his first quarterly conference in 1847 he received $1.95 on his salary.
Rev. Joab Biggs, a pioneer Methodist preacher, organized Bethel Church in July, 1848. He was born in North Carolina of Primitive Baptist parentage. He was converted and joined the Mississippi Conference. He moved to Arkansas and came to Texas with the Culwell family in 1846, settling in what later became Collin County.
Rev. Biggs organized Bethel Church in the home (a log cabin) of William Rogers, two and one half miles north of where Frisco is now. There were five members. They were William and Francis Rogers, Peter and Sarah Teel, and Elizabeth Rogers, wife of Clayton Rogers and mother of Joe B. and Dr. I. S. Rogers. (Dr. Rogers being the father of Mrs. Claud (Viola) Clark.) [He founded several Methodist churches in western Collin County.]
Newspaper, HISTORY OF FRISCO, TEXAS
The Rev. Joab H. Biggs was pastor of Dallas Circuit in 1847-48, but later settled down in Collin County as a local preacher. At his first quarterly conference in 1847 he received $1.95 on his salary.
Rev. Joab Biggs, a pioneer Methodist preacher, organized Bethel Church in July, 1848. He was born in North Carolina of Primitive Baptist parentage. He was converted and joined the Mississippi Conference. He moved to Arkansas and came to Texas with the Culwell family in 1846, settling in what later became Collin County.
Rev. Biggs organized Bethel Church in the home (a log cabin) of William Rogers, two and one half miles north of where Frisco is now. There were five members. They were William and Francis Rogers, Peter and Sarah Teel, and Elizabeth Rogers, wife of Clayton Rogers and mother of Joe B. and Dr. I. S. Rogers. (Dr. Rogers being the father of Mrs. Claud (Viola) Clark.) [He founded several Methodist churches in western Collin County.]
