{"id":261,"date":"2025-12-14T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:40:20","slug":"cumberland-presbyterian-church-oliver-springs-tn-by-snyder-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/cumberland-presbyterian-church-oliver-springs-tn-by-snyder-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Oliver Springs, TN, by Snyder Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-nggic-image-chooser-block\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>(from the book, <em>Roots of Roane County, TN<\/em>, by <strong>Snyder E. Roberts<\/strong>; page 106)<\/p>\r\n<p>The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 after a split with the Presbyterian Church as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800-4. It attempted to steer a middle course between Calvinism and Arminianism. By 1824, the denomination was strong enough in Roane County to organize New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church at a &#8220;camp ground&#8221; (probably in Bear Creek Valley). The minutes of this Church are extant for 1824-25, and the membership rolls contain such outstanding family names as<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Magill<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Rogers<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Evans<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Young<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Davidson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Welcker<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Ladd<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Taylor<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Gammon<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Freels<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Roberts<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Wyatt<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Gallaher<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Fritts<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Wright<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>and others<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>(See <strong>Dorothy Moneymaker<\/strong>\u2019s, <em>We\u2019ll Call It Wheat<\/em>, pp. 78-79 for greater details.)<\/p>\r\n<p>From the above beginning sprang such churches as: Crawford Memorial at Wheat, Mt. Carmel, Mt. Horeb, Oliver Springs, Russell\u2019s Chapel, Shiloh, and Youngs Chapel.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>(from the book, <em>The Story of Oliver Springs, TN, Vol. II<\/em> by <strong>Snyder E. Roberts<\/strong>)<\/p>\r\n<p>The Oliver Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church was established in 1888, with a building erected in 1892. Although the first minute book is missing, official records contain a list of the eleven charter members of the church and is dated November 11, 1888:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs. Myrtle Hackworth<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs. E. J. Mitchell<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>E. B. Hudson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>J. W. Hudson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs. Sallie M. Doyle<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs Deitrich Kreis<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Alice Deatherage<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Samuel Russell<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs. Nancy Hudson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mrs. William C. Walker<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>David Mitchell<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The first mention of a pastor is made in the minutes of a Building Committee meeting on March 12, 1892, in which it was stated that pastor <strong>J. H. Henry<\/strong> was present.<\/p>\r\n<p>On May 21, 1890, the Building Committee voted to build a solid stone foundation. The contract for the foundation was let to <strong>Thomas McNamara<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Gorman<\/strong>. <strong>Thomas McNamara<\/strong> was the father of <strong>&#8220;Uncle John Mack.&#8221;<\/strong> On June 19, 1890, the old <em>Clinton Gazette<\/em> announced &#8220;The cornerstone of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Oliver Springs will be laid by the Masonic Fraternity on June 24, 1890. <strong>Reverend A. W. Hawkins<\/strong>, pastor.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the book, Roots of Roane County, TN, by Snyder E. Roberts; page 106) The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 after a split with the Presbyterian Church as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800-4. It attempted <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/cumberland-presbyterian-church-oliver-springs-tn-by-snyder-roberts\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,13,20,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-about-roane-county","category-communities","category-religious-group-records","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}