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 Virginia Point Church & Cemetery

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Driving Directions are at the bottom of this page.
*Note from Jerry Durham - "The Virginia Point church was burned during the civil war because the Union troops that camped there had typhoid fever.  The first church (building) was made from logs hauled from Jefferson Texas in wagons, also did you know that behind the cemetery is a slave cemetery?  I have a lot of kin there  Amos, Price and Easterly."

Photograph by Ray McVay

Directions from Jan Pritchett-Litvin, who has ancestors there
and was married in this beautiful Church.

From Dallas, Hwy 35N/75N (aka: No. Central Expwy) & Hwy 635 (aka: LBJ
Freeway):

    1)   Go 24 miles North to Exit #45, Hwy 121 (Bonham) -  RIGHT

    2)   14 miles to Hwy 160 - LEFT

    3)    8 miles to Stop sign -  STRAIGHT & stay on Hwy 160/69

    4)    7 miles to Stop sign in Bells, Tx - STRAIGHT

    5)    .4 miles to Farm Road 1897 - RIGHT

    6)    2.7 miles to Virginia Pt Cemetery (sign on left) - RIGHT

    7)    1 mile to Virginia Point Methodist Church - ON LEFT

If you are coming from Sherman, Texas, follow these directions:

1)      From 35N take Hwy 82 east to stop sign in Bells, Texas. To Farm Road 1897 - LEFT

2)      2.7 miles to Virginia Pt Cemetery (sign on left) - RIGHT

3)      1 mile to Virginia Point Methodist Church - ON LEFT
 
 

The last  road is pretty rough, but well worth the effort.  A visitor to the church will immediately recognize it because it sits in a open field on the north side of the road and has a long gravel driveway from the road approximately 100 yards.

It is a beautiful white church that has a single isle church down the middle with pews on both sides, with the most magnificent stain glass windows at the back overlooking the cemetery.  Marie Youree had them made in remembrance of her husband, Bill Youree, died 1994, the Great Grandson of William Newton Youree and Anna E. Pritchett.

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