He found fifteen or twenty Presbyterians worshiping in a log house erected on land belonging to Rev.

McCue organized the church of Fort Union, which name was shortly changed to Lewisburg in honor of Col. Andrew Lewis.

McCue also organized the churches of Spring Creek and Union or "Good Hope," thereafter called "the three cornerstones of Presbyterianism" in this section.

[3] When he began his work, the church was very weak and years after, his granddaughter writes of having heard him refer to his early work at Union and Lewisburg, and says that he would have given up in utter despair but for the sense of the fact that there were a number of pious women, mothers and wives, in his church, whose prayers were for a revival, and for the conversion of their husbands and sons.

This revival came after a slow growth of twenty years, when between ninety and a hundred were added to the church roll, and gave it an impetus forward.

[5] After the Union victory at the Battle of Lewisburg, a trench was built by the side of the church to bury the Confederate dead.

[7] This building was made of native limestone, gathered from the nearby land, and placed in the walls in their original shape and size.