Just three years after this building was erected, a group of members and some of their neighbors moved to North East Texas. They named their new church: The Murray League Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Of course, at that time the Church where they had been members in Tennessee was the Dancyville Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The leaders of the "colonists" in East Texas included the Reverend Joshua J. Clark and Mr. William Lindsey Coppedge. Among the Murray League settlers were two sisters and a brother of W. L. Coppedge: Charles Clark Coppedge, Elizabeth Jane Coppedge (Pettitt) and Martha Rebecca Coppedge (Armstrong).
