(The Union City Daily Messenger – Tuesday, July 1st, 1930)

MANY ATTEND CHURCH CENTENNIAL.
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Parent Church of Cumberland Presbyterian in County Celebrates.
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The hundredth anniversary of Camp Ground Cumberland Presbyterian Church four miles west of Troy was observed Sunday with a home coming day by members of this and other days. Scores of people who had formerly held their membership here made the pilgrimage back to the sacred spot Sunday to linger around old familiar scenes of by gone days, to clasp the hand of old time friends back again for the day and to help their neighbors celebrate the one hundredth birthday of this church.

In May 1830, one hundred years ago, at this spot this church was organized as a meeting-place for public worship of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Over five hundred people attended the services Sunday, the children and grandchildren of the pioneer organizers of the original Camp Ground church. A service was held in the morning and a basket dinner spread at noon. The sermon in the morning was preached by Rev. Hamp McCleskey of Nashville. His grandfather was pastor of this church eighty years ago. In the afternoon, Will N. Calhoun of Lake County delivered an address in which he recited the history of this old church and following his address a sermon was preached by his brother, Rev. Ewing Calhoun. Both of these men are sons of the late Rev. Joe B. Calhoun who was pastor during the Civil War and Reconstruction days from 1860 to 1881.

While this service celebrating the hundredth anniversary of this famous old church was in progress Mrs. Margaret Ann Curry, one of the oldest members of this church, closed her life of service and her spirit passed on to the other world. Mrs. Curry had been a member of this church for over sixty years and yesterday morning her body was laid to rest in the sacred resting spot of Camp Ground Cemetery.

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This is said to have been the oldest organized church in Obion County. There are very few existing records of it, the most recent of which is a 1931 postal map that marks it near where the New Campground Cemetery is. By early 1937, the church had closed its doors.