Cohutta Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Cohutta
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The Cohutta Cumberland Presbyterian church was organized by
the Reverend
Hiram Douglass about 1842, at the residence of James Johnson two miles east of
Cohutta, then Murray county and now Whitfield county, Georgia. It was soon after
located at Flint Springs, Bradley county, Tennessee. Soon after its location at
that place, for the convenience of the members on the Georgia side of the state
line, the congregation was divided and the members were organized as a separate
congregation. The new church was located about two miles south of Cohutta on the
farm of Wilson Norton, and took the name of Pleasant Grove.
About the time that the Southern railway built the Ooltewah cut-off
and
located the Cohutta Station, the Reverend A. R. T. Hambright moved to the
community and preached his first sermon in a grove near the center of the
village.
In about 1886 he gathered the scattered members together
—thirty-six in
number—as the Cohutta Cumberland Presbyterian church. This congregation erected
the first house of worship of any order in the place. The other two churches
located here used this building while their buildings were being erected."
Among the charter members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
were: S. H.
and Emily Parker, Nancy A. Huffaker, Joseph E. and Sarah Stockburger, Benj. D.
and Thirza Leonard, Wm. J. and Mary Lowe, A. R. T. and Martha I. Ham-bright, Wm.
and Sarah J. McGaughy, Mary C. McGaughy, John A. Pickens and family, Sarah
Armstrong, Catherine and Polly Stancill and W. M. Hackney.
Pastors who served this church were A. R. T. Hambright, J. B.
Wilhoit, S. M.
Bennett, J. H. Miller and Frank Burns.
In 1906 this church joined in the union of the Cumberland
Presbyterian and
the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, since which time a
number of members have been added. The old building has been sold, a central
location bought, and a modern house of worship erected.
The pastors who have served since this union are J. M. Wooten,
Marvin Murphy
and S. G. Frazier.
History of this church written by Rev. A. R. T. Hambright.
List of charter
members taken from his autobiography now in possession of Mrs. Fannie Hambright
Boyd.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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