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12/09/2025

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06/25/2025

This is incredible! Please read and share. When you’ve seen the website pictures of
‘The Old Log Church’, know that it is adjacent to Sycamore Sunrise Ranch property on three sides. (Actually, Sycamore Sunrise Ranch surrounds three sides of the old log church).
The creek that you will see runs through the whole backside of the property! It touches me clear to my soul to know that early settlers were baptized in our creek!

A sweet little lady from church brought me a (very old and yellowed article from the newspaper) copy of this poem about our ‘Old Log Church’ it’s so incredible to think back to the year 1835 when the people probably all struggled together to build this amazing little Church! How thrilled they must’ve been to finally be able to gather together to worship in their hand hewn log cabin!

The Old Log Church at the foot of the hills, where the crossroads meet,
stands an old log church of a hundred years and more,
back in the country away from the noise of city and street,
and yet, after all these years we may enter for worship through the old fashioned door
on a beautiful little spot stands the old log church surrounded by stately trees,
a creek served for baptizing in it’s fresh mountain waters that ripples nearby
and evergreens in the background so inspiring in the balmy breeze.
All to remind us us of Him that rules on high.
This old log church so well preserved and far past, the century mark
has stood the season’s test of winter snow and sleet and summer sun and shower.
Let us pause and give thanks as on life’s sea we embark
and bow our heads in reverence to One with such wonderful preservative power.
The people rode on horses, they walked to the old church from far and near,
The roads were rough and often muddy, but they came irrespective of color or creed.
A greeting of welcome to all and of pride and malice they had no fear,
Just to hear God’s preached Word and mingle their voices in song was the heartfelt need.
This old log church stands an emblem of worship by many we never knew,
but something tells us they have been here and gone, passed on to better hands,
Let us aspire to nobler heights and seek God’s will to do,
For a Voice softly whispers “You too may worship here, the old church still stands.”
-Cora Cunningham
(Born 3/13/1872
Died 3/1/1954)
I went to the Pocohontas Times newspaper to find out when this was published, but there’s no record. The editor suggested it was published in a newspaper that is no longer in business.

(Mrs. Blanch Waugh [a relative] found this poem among her papers.)

Dawn Christon
Founding Director
Sycamore Sunrise Ranch
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