Taliaferro County GaArchives History .....Robinson Baptist Church December 2004
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The Church at Robinson, Georgia was constituted as a missinonary Baptist 
church on Wednesday, August 21, 1912, with nineteen charter members underthe 
leadership of Elders J. S. Callaway and W. W. Arnold together with the deacons 
of Margarets Grove, Crawfordville, Union Point and Bethesda.  The church 
building was donated by the membership of Union Point Baptist Church after 
they erected a new building.  The men of Robinson drove their wagons to Union 
Point and dismantled the building piece by piece, then reerected in the 
Robinson at the present location just north of the Georgia Railroad, on land 
donated by Mrs. Sarah Mitcell Murden.

On October 16, 1912, Robinson sent messengers to the annual session of Georgia 
Baptist Association and applied for membership.  The right hand of fellowship 
was extended to William Hugh Murden, church clerk.

The following people have served the church as deacon: William Hugh Murden, 
W. F. Harwell, S. W. Saggus, Martin Luther Ogletree, Cecil C. Corry, Robbie 
Agee, Franklin T. Jones and Wiley Cranston Jones.  Cranston Jones served as 
chairman of deacons for over forty-five years. F. Rudolph Yearwood, and Mark 
Yearwood currently serve as deacons. 

William Hugh Murden, for many years served as clerk at Bethesda Baptist Church 
and served as clerk at Robinson until his death in 1930.  Others who have 
served as clerk are: William B. Murden, William E. Merritt and Cranston Jones, 
who clerk for over forty - five years. Clay Jones is the present church Clerk.

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