Buckner, Rev. Robert C., was born in Madi- sonville, Tenn.
Baptist Church History
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Daily Baptist Encyclopedia
Post by Jim Curran
Buckner, Rev. Robert C., was born in Madi-
sonville, Tenn., Jan. 3, 1833; educated in George-
town College, Ky.; professed religion October,
1844, and commenced his ministry at Somerset,
Ky., in 1852; was pastor at Albany, Owensborough,
Salvisa, Ky., and Paris, Texas, twenty-seven years
in all. He was the first agent in Kentucky of the
Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention ; was twelve years moderator of Red River
Association, Texas ; is now general superintendent
of Orphan Home work in Texas, president of the
Sunday-School Convention of Northern Texas, and
corresponding secretary of the Texas Baptist Gen-
eral Association. He is editor and proprietor, at
this time, of the Texas Baptist, published at Dallas.
IIe is also proprietor of the Texas Baptist Publish-
ing House,which is in a flourishing condition.
From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave
NOTE: he is noted as founding the Buckner Orphan’s Home now known as Buckner Baptist Children’s Home See less
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