In 1773, the Rev. Charles Cummings became
the first minister of the Sinking Spring
Presbyterian congregation, among the
earliest in Southwest Virginia, and the first
meetinghouse was soon constructed here of
logs. The earliest marked grave in the
cemetery is dated 1776. Buried here are
pioneers; veterans of the Revolutionary War,
the War of 1812, and the Civil War; and two
antebellum Virginia governors (David
Campbell and John B. Floyd, who also served
as President James Buchanan's secretary of
war). Cummings's log manse, among the
oldest east of the Mississippi River, was
moved here in 1971 from its original site
two miles north.
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