Why Did The Guedry Family of Batson, Texas Become Baptists?
This is what my grandfather SEVAN GUEDRY told me:
"One day my Papa & Mother got the children all dressed up and traveled to Sour Lake, TX. This is the place where my Grandpa Ursin & Matilda Formen Guedry lived before he was killed. We didn't have a Priest or church, but that day one was coming from Galveston, TX. He was late and me (Sevan) and some cousins were playing and went off into the woods. The Priest came and went before we returned. I wasn't baptized so that was part of the reason we were not Catholic. A few years later my sister married a Baptist preacher. Soon our neighbors need a church. They asked my Papa for some land. Before the church was started he gave land for a cemetery because his grandson died and the family needed a place to bury him. (This is known as the Guedry Cemetery today and is in Batson, TX.) Papa gave some land for a church and it was established in 1897."
Several years later, Evertt, Otis (my sons) and many of Papa's grandchildren needed a school. He gave some land for a school. My Grandfather, Sevan, helped build the school which was known as Batson Prairie School. It was moved to the town of Batson later.