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	TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH On the corner of N.E. 6th and Dallas sits a small white church building with a sign reading Trinity United Methodist Church. It has not always been a church building. It was built and used for a school house near Memphis in the Ely Community. As time progressed the children went to town to school, and the building was abandoned. In 1938 the communities of Salem and Valley View felt the need to establish a Methodist Church. A committee composed of Warren Knowles, Hubert Rector, Will Edwards and K. I. McCaslin located and bought the school house. It was moved to land donated by Mr. Bozeman, 7 miles north and 7 miles east of Tulia. A basement was built and used for Sunday School, the building enlarged and repaired. It flourished for several years, but progress and the call of town life took its toll, and the church was disbanded, the building was empty once gain.		In 1954 a group of Tulia people who were Methodist, but had no church home, began to look for a building to be moved. In this group were Mr. and Mrs. K. I. McCaslin and Mrs. Lydia Kiker. The building was moved to its present site, and Mrs. McCaslin and Mrs. Kiker still attend regularly. In 1960 a brick building was completed just west of the chapel and is used for Sunday School. All buildings and land are debt free. Again in 1964 the restless ones took the toll of the flourishing church and the membership dropped to about 60. Trinity was put on the charge with Happy, and as the Pastor lived in Happy the parsonage was moved away. In 1975 the charge was changed to Kress and Tulia, Trinity with the Pastor living in Kress. As both congregations have mostly farming

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