Cumming, Andrew

Cumming, Andrew a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, November 18, 1817. He was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in .1833, and three years later removed with his father's family to Illinois. There he was licensed to preach in 1843, joined the Illinois Conference, and was transferred immediately to the Arkansas Conference. At the division of the Church the following year he became a member of the southern branch. He was a member successively of the Indian Mission, the East Texas, and the North Texas conferences. He became superannuated in 1864. and died at Turner's Point, Texas, Oct. 6, 1882. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1882, page 145.