The old Presbyterian Church, first to be organized in El Paso.
from this old Panola church. The bell was taken to the Evangelical Church in El Paso in time for the Thanksgiving service in 1911, and is still in use in their tower. Panola has no church today, but after the Baptist Church was closed a union Sunday school was held for some years in the town hall or the schoolhouse, and occasionally one or the other of the El Paso ministers would help by conducting a worship service in Panola.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ministers preached on alternate Sundays in Panola and Kappa, beginning with the Reverend Frost in 1856. In March of 1857 he held the first Presbyterian worship service in El Paso in a passenger car temporarily located on the east Y. During the
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