Wheatland Bible Chapel, TX

• • @ 2613 Pennsylvania Ave., home of J.T. Dean 1912-1918; tent donated from Dallas Tent & Awning 1918-1920; building @ Hickory St. 1920; "Tabernacle" tent @ Fitzhugh Ave. & Phillips St. 1924-1929; 1113 S. Fitzhugh St. +1927-1950+; 3303 S. Polk St. +1954-1980; 1303 W. Wheatland Rd. 1981-present;
  • c/o John Thomas "Tom" Dean @ 13 St. Paul St. +1904+ (b. 1853 Anderson Co., S.C.), son of Major John Dean (b. 1831 SC - d. 1902 Tyler, Smith, TX) & Frances Clarenda Rice Dean (b. 1833 Anderson Co., S.C. - d. 1876 Tyler, Smith, TX); Frances was a daughter of Hezekiah Benjamin Rice III (1804-1836).
    • Ordained in 1889 by the Baptist seminary in Louisville, KY, and pastored a Baptist church in McQuirk, TX. He was introduced to the PB while there thru friendship with "Cowboy Wesley", and Dr. E.A. Martin, a local dentist. Dean & Martin started "Faithful Words" magazine in 1895 in J.T.'s home in Palestine, where he lived thru 1900+, and was living in Dallas by 1904, where he also had lived in 1860.
  • c/o William Sebastian @ 1009 Woodlawn Ave. +1922-1936+;
  • c/o John W. Dean +1941-1959
    • @ 2918 Forest Ave. +1941-1950+; Cedar Hill, TX +1954-1959
  • c/o Edward C. Davis 1960-1972; J.D. Rice 1973-1980; Larry Dean 1981-1995; Jimmie R. Hornsby 1996-2001; Doug Rice 2002-present; John Martin (formerly @ Spruce Hill Bible Chapel, MO) 1984/2006-present;