HISTORY OF ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PIN OAK
 
           One of the first families in the Pin Oak settlement was of Adam Becker.  A joiner and farmer by trade, he made his home on the south side of the Pin Oak Creek.  In 1849, he made an addition to his home that became the first place in Pin Oak where mass was said by the visiting priest.
 
           On the 27^th of February 1869, the heirs of Christian Brahm-Adam Pipp, Franz Meuth, Margaret Brahm and Eva Lange sold to the Archbishop M. Dubis of Galveston six acres of land east of Pin Oak Creek.  This is the spot where the first church was built in 1869.  It was replaced by the present church in 1911.
 
           By 1889, Bastrop and Pin Oak became a mission parish of Taylor.  In 1892, Rev. M. Heintzelman became the first resident pastor and Saint Martin’s Parish of La Grange (now Sacred Heart Church) with mission parishes in Bastrop and Pin Oak.  Masses were held once a month at Pin Oak.  As the La Grange parish grew, subsequent pastor Monsignor S. A. Zientek requested that his mission parish in Pin Oak be reassigned to Rev. P. J. Keiffer of Saint Peter and Paul’s Church, Smithville.  Beginning in February, 1933, Rev. Keiffer held mass at Pin Oak Chapel each second and fourth Sunday at 10:00 a.m.  From 1944 to the present, Saint Mary’s, Pin Oak, has been a mission parish of Saint Margaret’s, Giddings, Texas.