Today we tell the story of Robert Sheffey, one of Southwest Virginia’s most well-known circuit riders. These preachers traveled from one community to the next, bringing the word of God to those who would accept it. There was one town, however, that never accepted Preacher Sheffey’s efforts to save it, no matter how hard he tried, so, as the story goes, he laid a curse on this town, rejecting it just as the town had rejected the Lord.
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(Picture of Robert Sheffey by Unknown – Willard Sanders Barbery, Story of the Life of Robert Sayers Sheffey, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9832172)
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This is a very interesting story concerning the history of Appalachia.