The Presbyterian Church at  Green Hill, in Titus County, Texas, was organized September 23rd, 1860 by Rev. E.H. Green, with the following members, viz: Mr. J.Q. Hall, Mrs. D.E. Hall, Miss M.C. Hall, Miss Ella Hall, Mr. J.J. Hall, Mrs. M.E. Hall, Mrs. Margaret Hall, Mrs. L.D. Hindman, Mrs. M. Hidman, Mrs. C.C. Green, Mrs. Mary Bolin, Mrs. Eliza B. Cobb, Mr. James Morgan, and the following named servants, viz: Rhoda Man and Emma Lovick and Cely Rhoda was a servant of Rev. E.H. Green.

     J.Q. Hall was elected and installed Ruling Elder.  J.J. Hall was also elected but declined to serve as Elder, but was afterwards elected Deacon by a unanimous vote and was duly installed.

     The first church building was a small log structure standing a short distance northeast of the present location.  Even prior to the completion of that original log building services were held in a brush arbor.  Reverend E.H. Green gave the land for the church and cemetery.  Later Mr. Lowery Wallace donated the land which completed the present cemetery.  The present church building was erected in 1870-1872 by George Washington Gilpin and James Nicholas Morgan and volunteer labor from members of the congregation and friends.  Most of the lumber for the building was hauled in from Jefferson by oxen, the haul taking from three to four weeks.  The roof of the first church building was of split board, hand-hewn. The men would come one day and work free and the women would prepare food and serve it on outdoor tables.  In the afternoon the women would meet at different homes and make quilts to sell to raise money to furnish the interior of the church.  The present building itself has been enlarged and modified several times.  In the early 1920's an acre of land was given to the church by Mr. Charlie Allen and again the church members volunteered their labor to build the manse.

     An  interesting sidelight is the method used for raising money for the church.  This is recorded in the records of the Session dated December 28, 1867.

     "A meeting of the members of the church convened today in accordance with previous notice.  The object of the meeting was to make such  financial arrangements as may be necessary and adopt some practicable plan for raising the Pastor's salary for the year 1868.  Mr. J.Q. Hall was called to the chair and Mr. T.G. Black was appointed Secretary.  After free consultation it was on motion Resolved: 1st: That members of this church be assesses according to the amount of their property as shown by the state and county tax lists and that in this way the sum of four hundred dollars, the amount of the Pastors salary, shall be raised.  Resolved: 2nd: That the Pastor's salary shall be paid in regular quarterly installments of one hundred dollars each and that the first payment be made on the 1st Saturday in April next and that the members of the church meet at our house of worship to make each payment on that day."

     As early as 1849 families were beginning to settle in what was to become Titus County, Texas.  In looking at the records, one finds whole families, and often large families, who for the better part of the century knew nothing but  Green Hill as home and church.  The records show that there have been 692 members received into the  Green Hill Church. The largest membership was in 1925 when there were 183. There is no doubt that  Green Hill was a stern and devoted church to the  Green Hill Community.  The Sessional Records again record instances where the Church took a real care for the members.  In 1888 the following notes were found:

     "Committees were appointed to see and confer with members who had been dancing, to admonish them to give it up, and the pleasures of this world that are not according to Godliness."

     Two members were brought to the attention of the Session-"Both living as not becometh a Christian, who after repeated admonitions from individual members of the Session had declared that they would have no more to do with the church-both of whom had been guilty of profane swearing and many other sins, without any signs of repentance whatsoever.  It was on motion decided that the two members last mentioned-be excommunicated from the church and their names stricken from the rolls."

     Inseparable from the church has been through the years the  Green Hill Cemetery.  After the church was built, once a year, on the Saturday before the first Sunday in May, all members and many of the people of  Green Hill would come and work the cemetery grounds.  At this time of year all the front yards of the farm homes were ablaze with spring flowers, and armsfull of these beautiful flowers would be gathered and brought to decorate the graves of the loved ones in the church cemetery.  This became traditionally an all-day labor of love and evolved into Decoration Day.