{"id":204,"date":"2017-03-26T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/?p=204"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:16:07","slug":"union-cumberland-presbyterian-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/union-cumberland-presbyterian-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Some sources say that the Union Church was founded in 1805.\u00a0 We do know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielhaston.com\/places\/churches\/oldunion\/spence-mitchell-obit.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Spence Mitchell<\/a>, an early settler in southern White County, TN, deeded a plot of land for what was called the Union Meeting House on August 24, 1811.\u00a0 That church, at some point, associated with the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">Just across and south of the Caney Fork River from the Union Meeting House (just over a mile away), the Daniel Haston family had settled three or four years earlier.\u00a0 David and Peggy Haston were known to have been committed Cumberland Presbyterians when they arrived in White County.\u00a0 Union church records indicate that David was the church&#8217;s first clerk.\u00a0 We also know that later generations of Daniel&#8217;s family played an important role in what is became known as &#8220;Old Union.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sources say that the Union Church was founded in 1805.\u00a0 We do know that Spence Mitchell, an early settler in southern White County, TN, deeded a plot of land for what was called the Union Meeting House on August <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/union-cumberland-presbyterian-church\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}