Sunday, February 20, 2011

Cumberland

Ok, on reviewing this I see that Cumberland Presbyterian is not Scottish. It is sort of Appalachian probably and gets that name from the place names of Appalachia. Sure, there is a Cumberland in northwest England but I doubt that has anything to do with the Presbyterian denomination that was founded in the United States in about 1800 in branching off from the Presbyterian Church USA. My great-grandfather was a minister with them in Texas back in the late 1800s but I do not know very much about that, only what is in the book.