Formerly
- First United Presbyterian Church, Trinity United Presbyterian Church
The First United Presbyterian Church is
the successor of one of the very oldest societies in the county, and was
organized in the early part of 1801, being known as the Cool Spring
Church. Its first house of worship, located about three miles from the
present one, was built of round logs, chinked and daubed with mud, and was
18x20 feet in dimensions. Its windows were of greased paper, and the door
opened at one end of the building into the aisle, which led up the center
of the church between the pews of split logs, laid parallel to each other
at right angles to the sides of the structure, to the pulpit, which, like
its primitive fellows, consisted of a huge stump, delicately festooned
with a rich growth of green moss. The “meetin’ house” of the regular
Presbyterian Church, known by the same name, of which Rev.
Samuel Tait was pastor, was located about a half mile away, and
between the two churches there was a narrow foot-path, the only means of
communication. The first regular pastor of the Cool Spring Seceder flock
was Rev. Thomas McClintock, who began his
labors May 8, 1803. Among its early members were Mr.
McClintock (no relative of the pastor) and family, Mr.
McDonald and family, Mr. Bradley and
family, Mr. Garvin and family and Mr.
Braden and wife. Rev. McClintock
continued until
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