A Shrine to Methodism Traditional Cache
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Camoed snap lock storage container. Log book, pencil, tradeables.
We list this cache to coincide with the 2K find celebration for DMflyer and cudlecub. We'll miss the party but we will be there in spirit.
Please replace cache container so it can not be seen by the visitors. Trade up or trade even. Enjoy the history. There is a letterbox at this site, too.
This story begins about 12 miles down the road at Acuff's Chapel (GCNJ8W).
Edward Cox (1750-1852) was born in Maryland and converted under the preaching of Francis Asbury in 1773. Soon after, he emigrated west to Virginia and what is now eastern Tennessee.
After two years he returned to Maryland to marry Sallie Meredith, and the day after their wedding they set out for their new home just over the present day border of Virginia, riding horseback some six hundred miles. They probably were the first Methodist settlers in the Holston area.
During the Revolutionary War, Sallie stayed in Tennessee while Edward served as a soldier. Upon his return, Cox, a local preacher, began holding Methodist services in their home. The Cox home was also a welcome resting place for itinerant preachers.
In the late eighteenth century, Tennessee was the wild frontier. The country was rugged and travel was difficult. Preachers had to depend on settlers' hospitality for food, lodging, and sometimes medical attention. Sallie and Edward Cox, and others like them, played an essential role in the westward growth of the Methodist movement.
Francis Asbury made his first visit to the Cox home in 1788, while on his way to Stephen Keywood's in Virginia, where he held the first Methodist conference west of the Alleghenies. He stayed with the Cox family at least four other times between 1788 and 1806 on his regular circuits in eastern Tennessee.
Edward Cox lived in his home until the day of his death in 1852 at the age of 102. In 1966, the Holston Conference purchased the Cox House from private owners and has restored and furnished the house to reflect its early nineteenth century history.
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