GEORGE MORRIS, SR.
GEORGE MORRIS, SR., was the first Baptist settler in Center community; was born in Mississippi in 1826; was baptized into Big Sandy church, Sabine county, Texas, by Elder Sam Lacy, in 1863; moved to Falls county in 1863, and was in the organization of both Hope and Center churches. He died in Trinity county, Texas, in 1891.
J. L. Walker and C. P. Lumpkin, History of the Waco Baptist Association of Texas (Waco: Byrne-Hill Printing House, 1897), p. 271.
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