{"id":136843,"date":"2024-02-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=136843"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:50:01","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-cumberland-presbyterian-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-cumberland-presbyterian-church\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cCumberland Presbyterian Church\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The Cumberland Presbyterians<\/strong> formed in Oxford <\/strong>about 1837, about the same time the town formed. Their first church was south of the town, but it burned, and in 1856 they bought a lot on South Street (South Lamar), about 100 yards south of The Square<\/strong>. There, on the west side, they built a large, brick church. This new building seated more people than any other building in Oxford, and the church members gladly allowed different groups to use the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Civil War<\/strong> came, the Lamar Rifle<\/strong>s used the basement for an armory to store their muskets in, and they drilled in the basement on rainy days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During The Depression<\/strong> of the 1930s, the congregation dwindled to nearly nothing. They could not afford a pastor or repairs on the old building. The last members mostly combined with First Presbyterian Church<\/strong> in Oxford, and the building and lot were sold for a fancy new thing called a supermarket.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Starke Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Cumberland Presbyterians formed in Oxford about 1837, about the same time the town formed. Their first church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":136845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23706],"tags":[7085,27864,21932,27865,27866,5,4,10879,27867],"class_list":["post-136843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-civil-war","tag-cumberland-presbyterians","tag-first-presbyterian-church","tag-johon-cofield","tag-lamar-rifle","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-starke-miller","tag-the-depression"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2024-02-15-JC-CumberlandChurch-B.jpg?fit=1951%2C1408&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136849,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136843\/revisions\/136849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}