Individual Details

Elder Robert Whatley "Robin" Carlisle was the son of Edmund Green Carlisle, a revolutionary war soldier, and Elizabeth Whatley, his wife. He married Clarissa Mitchell Owens, daughter of John Nicholson Owens and Elizabeth Lucy Childs, in Newton County, Georgia on December 31, 1826 by his brother W. W. Carlisle, J.P. Their license to marry was granted on December 26, 1826 in the Newton County Inferior Court.Elder Carlisle's obituary appeared in The Gospel Messenger, Volume 13, No. 8 in August, 1891. A transcript of that obituary was provided by Mr. Don Clark of Chambers Co., AL in Jan., 2011, and appears below:"Elder R. W. Carlisle.Elder R. W. Carlisle, died of cancer November 3rd, 1890, at the home of Mrs. Mattie Brown, his youngest daughter, who lived near Goodwater, Coosa County, Alabama, in the 85th year of his age. He was born, raised to manhood, and married Miss Clasisa Owens, in Morgan County, Ga. Joined the Baptists there in 1830, before the division, and was soon thereafter set apart as deacon, and subsequently moved to Chambers County, Alabama, and thence to Tallapoosa, and was ordained to the ministry at Darien Church by Elders Moses Gunn and John M. Duke in 1845, and in 1859 he moved to Coosa County, Alabama, serving from three to five churches, till the infirmities of age forbid his continuance. For more than twenty years he was moderator of either the Wetumpka or Hillabee Associations. Elder Carlisle was regarded as a sound, consistent and able minister, and after faithfully serving in that capacity for near fifty years, he attended the Hillabee Association and on October 12, 1890, he bid the brethren all farewell to meet no more on earth, and in twenty days from that time he passed away to his long and eternal home to that house not made with hands, eternal in heavens. – M"

Birth	21 Apr 1806	Georgia
Marriage	31 Dec 1826	Newton County, Georgia - Clarissa Mitchell Owens
Census (family)	13 Jan 1851	Tallapoosa County, Alabama - Clarissa Mitchell Owens
Census (family)	14 Jun 1860	Coosa County, Alabama - Clarissa Mitchell Owens
Census (family)	23 Jun 1880	Mount Olive, Coosa County, Alabama - Clarissa Mitchell Owens
Death	3 Nov 1890	Cancer - Goodwater, Coosa County, Alabama
Burial		Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama

Spouse	Clarissa Mitchell Owens (1808 - 1887)
Child	Louisa Serepta Carlisle (1827 - 1885)
Child	Edmund Jefferson Carlisle (1831 - 1906)
Child	John Bunyon Carlisle (1833 - 1914)

Father	Edmund Griffith Carlisle (1779 - 1828)
Mother	Elizabeth Ann Whatley (1779 - 1854)

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