Cumming, David B

Cumming, David B.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1796. He was converted in 1818, licensed to preach in 1819, and entered the Tennessee Conference in 1821. In 1823 he was ordained deacon, and transferred to Holston Conference in 1824. In its bounds he travelled until 1834, excepting three years that he was a supernumerary, being agent for the American Bible Society. From 1834 to 1838 he had charge of the Indian Mission work of that conference. He was transferred in 1838 to the Arkansas Conference, within the bounds of which he served during the next six years. From 1845 until his death he was a member of the Indian Mission Conference. From 1872 to 1879 he was superannuated. He was the pioneer of Methodism among the Wyandottes, the Senecas, the Delawares, the Creeks, and Cherokees. He served three terms as presiding elder, and was a delegate to the General Conference of 1854. His death occurred in McDonald County, Missouri, August 25, 1880. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1880, page 151.