Rose Ann Jenny portrayed her fifth great-grandmother, Ann Colville Evans, during the Living History Tour of the Sinking Spring Cemetery. Jenny discovered after first attending the tour that Evans was her relative, and now she volunteers with the Washington County Historical Society.
Walter Jenny, Rose Ann Jenny's husband, portrayed Parson Charles Cummings, the first Presbyterian minister in the area.
A group tours Sinking Spring Cemetery, where the Washington County Historical Society hosts living history tours about the people buried there.
Cindy Large portrayed Millicent Carter Cummings, the wife of a local parson who built their log church house around 1773. Large was part of the Living History Tour of the Sinking Spring Cemetery, which helps educate attendees on the history of Washington County and the people buried in the cemetery.
ABINGDON, Va. — When Rose Ann Jenny and her husband Walter Jenny Jr. moved to Abingdon from Oklahoma two years ago, the couple attended a living history tour during the Virginia Highlands Festival, thinking it would be a good way to learn more about their new home.
Carolyn R. Wilson is a freelance writer in Glade Spring, Virginia. Contact her at news@washconews.com.
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Rose Ann Jenny portrayed her fifth great-grandmother, Ann Colville Evans, during the Living History Tour of the Sinking Spring Cemetery. Jenny discovered after first attending the tour that Evans was her relative, and now she volunteers with the Washington County Historical Society.
Cindy Large portrayed Millicent Carter Cummings, the wife of a local parson who built their log church house around 1773. Large was part of the Living History Tour of the Sinking Spring Cemetery, which helps educate attendees on the history of Washington County and the people buried in the cemetery.
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