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• Pastor was a Buffalo Soldier at Ft. Concho, as well as a preacher

By Matthew McDaniel, Reporter
• San Angelo Standard Times

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - According to the history of Greater St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, 217 W. 3rd St, the congregation was founded by the Rev. J.W. Walker in May of 1883, when Fort Concho was still a few year’s away from being abandoned by the Army ...

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