Please go see the Beautiful Tapestry donated by the Whites!

Please be sure to go see the beautiful tapestry donated by Doug and Nancy Kelly White hanging next to the conference room as you get off the elevate on the third floor! Read the story below. 

This inspiring stitchery depicting Jesus at the Well with the Samaritan Woman (John 4:4-30) was handmade in 1875 by Annie Campbell in England. It is given by Mr. and Mrs. R. Douglas White (Nancy Dempster Kelly White).

      This memorial tribute is in recognition of Nancy's fourth great grand parents, Colonel and Mrs. James Scott (Eliza Jane Naomi Bane Alexander Ramsey). Colonel Scott and Eliza Jane are buried in the graveyard at First Church. Eliza Jane, 1801-1858 and James Scott 1798-1839.

     Having married in 1825, Colonel Scott built "Cedar Grove" for Eliza Jane in 1833. Cedar Grove still stands as it is the oldest portion of Stevens Funeral Home at 1304 Oglewood Avenue in Knoxville.

     After Colonel Scott's death, five years later, Eliza Jane would faithfully bring her five children to First Presbyterian Church, carrying a lunch, staying for the second service and then taking her children to the graveyard to "talk to them of what a good, noble man"* their father was. 

     A legacy of devotion to Christ's victory won on the cross enveloped six subsequent generations of Elders and teachers from the Eliza Jane and James Scott family at First Presbyterian Church.

Given on October 30, 2022 upon the 230 Anniversary of First Presbyterian Church's founding.

Nancy and Doug White

*The Story of Two Chairs, A Fairy Tale that is Truer than False by Edith Scott, 1957