Hugh Harris Robison, son of Ezekiel and Eleanor Harris Robison, was born March 1st 1824, in the bounds of Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. His father died when he was two years old, leaving him to be reared by a pious and affectionate mother. She removed to Steele Creek in 1828, and in 1840 went to the Coddle Creek congregation. He prosecuted his studies in the common schools and at Union Academy, and entered the Sophomore class in Erskine College, in Nov., 1844, and graduated September 15th 1847. He had joined the Associate Reformed Church at Coddle Creek in 1840.
Hugh Robison was received as a student of theology by the First Presbytery at North Bethany, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, April 17th 1848, and was licensed to preach by that Presbytery at Old Providence, Augusta County, Virginia. He studied theology at Erskine Theological Seminary, and after licensure missionated extensively in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. He was called to the pastorate of Ebenezer in Tippah County, and Shiloh in Lafayette County, Mississippi 1851, and having been transferred to the Alabama Presbytery he was ordained in the spring of 1852 at Starkville, Mississippi. He was installed at Ebenezer by Rev. J. L. Young, July 24th 1852, and at Shiloh by Rev. J. A. Sloan, and he continued to minister to Ebenezer until his death in 1881. He demitted his Shiloh charge in 1856.
He married Miss Mary Adaline Ellis of Due West, South Carolina on October 21st 1851. She was a daughter of John Lindsay and Mahala Dodson Ellis, and was born March 4th 1827. She was the mother of eight children. Of them John Ellis is a practicing physician at Bethany, Mississippi and Ralph Erskine and Hugh Henry are prominent educators in the State of Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Rev. Robison was acting chaplain of the 3rd Mississippi Regiment and was captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862, and was kept a prisoner of war mostly at Johnson’s Island. He came near dying there and was released and stopped over in central Kentucky and returned to his home in September 1862. His death was a melancholy providence. In returning from visiting a sick little child the horse he was riding became frightened by the barking of a dog and threw him, injuring him so seriously that after three days of great suffering he died, May 19th 1881. His last words were “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Rev. Robison was Moderator of the Synod of 1866, which met at Prosperity, Lincoln County, Tennessee. He was the stated clerk of the Memphis Presbytery from I856 to 1873 His body sleeps in the church-yard at Ebenezer hard by the church around which centered his ministerial labors for nearly 30 years.
Rev. Hugh H. Robison was a man of great force of character, a close student and an excellent pastor. Faithful in pulpit and pastoral visitation, he was greatly beloved throughout the whole community. His visits were peculiarly comforting and helpful to the sick and afflicted, and much of ministerial labor was spent in the homes of his people.
His Presbytery pays tribute to his worth as “a prince and great man in Israel—wise in counsel and efficient in action ─ as pastor, manifesting special care in visiting sick and comforting the afflicted. As a citizen, modest, exemplary, exhibiting at all times the beauty of holiness and the excellency of undefiled religion.”
Hugh Robison was received as a student of theology by the First Presbytery at North Bethany, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, April 17th 1848, and was licensed to preach by that Presbytery at Old Providence, Augusta County, Virginia. He studied theology at Erskine Theological Seminary, and after licensure missionated extensively in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. He was called to the pastorate of Ebenezer in Tippah County, and Shiloh in Lafayette County, Mississippi 1851, and having been transferred to the Alabama Presbytery he was ordained in the spring of 1852 at Starkville, Mississippi. He was installed at Ebenezer by Rev. J. L. Young, July 24th 1852, and at Shiloh by Rev. J. A. Sloan, and he continued to minister to Ebenezer until his death in 1881. He demitted his Shiloh charge in 1856.
He married Miss Mary Adaline Ellis of Due West, South Carolina on October 21st 1851. She was a daughter of John Lindsay and Mahala Dodson Ellis, and was born March 4th 1827. She was the mother of eight children. Of them John Ellis is a practicing physician at Bethany, Mississippi and Ralph Erskine and Hugh Henry are prominent educators in the State of Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Rev. Robison was acting chaplain of the 3rd Mississippi Regiment and was captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862, and was kept a prisoner of war mostly at Johnson’s Island. He came near dying there and was released and stopped over in central Kentucky and returned to his home in September 1862. His death was a melancholy providence. In returning from visiting a sick little child the horse he was riding became frightened by the barking of a dog and threw him, injuring him so seriously that after three days of great suffering he died, May 19th 1881. His last words were “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Rev. Robison was Moderator of the Synod of 1866, which met at Prosperity, Lincoln County, Tennessee. He was the stated clerk of the Memphis Presbytery from I856 to 1873 His body sleeps in the church-yard at Ebenezer hard by the church around which centered his ministerial labors for nearly 30 years.
Rev. Hugh H. Robison was a man of great force of character, a close student and an excellent pastor. Faithful in pulpit and pastoral visitation, he was greatly beloved throughout the whole community. His visits were peculiarly comforting and helpful to the sick and afflicted, and much of ministerial labor was spent in the homes of his people.
His Presbytery pays tribute to his worth as “a prince and great man in Israel—wise in counsel and efficient in action ─ as pastor, manifesting special care in visiting sick and comforting the afflicted. As a citizen, modest, exemplary, exhibiting at all times the beauty of holiness and the excellency of undefiled religion.”
Hugh Harris Robison, son of Ezekiel and Eleanor Harris Robison, was born March 1st 1824, in the bounds of Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. His father died when he was two years old, leaving him to be reared by a pious and affectionate mother. She removed to Steele Creek in 1828, and in 1840 went to the Coddle Creek congregation. He prosecuted his studies in the common schools and at Union Academy, and entered the Sophomore class in Erskine College, in Nov., 1844, and graduated September 15th 1847. He had joined the Associate Reformed Church at Coddle Creek in 1840.
Hugh Robison was received as a student of theology by the First Presbytery at North Bethany, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, April 17th 1848, and was licensed to preach by that Presbytery at Old Providence, Augusta County, Virginia. He studied theology at Erskine Theological Seminary, and after licensure missionated extensively in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. He was called to the pastorate of Ebenezer in Tippah County, and Shiloh in Lafayette County, Mississippi 1851, and having been transferred to the Alabama Presbytery he was ordained in the spring of 1852 at Starkville, Mississippi. He was installed at Ebenezer by Rev. J. L. Young, July 24th 1852, and at Shiloh by Rev. J. A. Sloan, and he continued to minister to Ebenezer until his death in 1881. He demitted his Shiloh charge in 1856.
He married Miss Mary Adaline Ellis of Due West, South Carolina on October 21st 1851. She was a daughter of John Lindsay and Mahala Dodson Ellis, and was born March 4th 1827. She was the mother of eight children. Of them John Ellis is a practicing physician at Bethany, Mississippi and Ralph Erskine and Hugh Henry are prominent educators in the State of Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Rev. Robison was acting chaplain of the 3rd Mississippi Regiment and was captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862, and was kept a prisoner of war mostly at Johnson’s Island. He came near dying there and was released and stopped over in central Kentucky and returned to his home in September 1862. His death was a melancholy providence. In returning from visiting a sick little child the horse he was riding became frightened by the barking of a dog and threw him, injuring him so seriously that after three days of great suffering he died, May 19th 1881. His last words were “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Rev. Robison was Moderator of the Synod of 1866, which met at Prosperity, Lincoln County, Tennessee. He was the stated clerk of the Memphis Presbytery from I856 to 1873 His body sleeps in the church-yard at Ebenezer hard by the church around which centered his ministerial labors for nearly 30 years.
Rev. Hugh H. Robison was a man of great force of character, a close student and an excellent pastor. Faithful in pulpit and pastoral visitation, he was greatly beloved throughout the whole community. His visits were peculiarly comforting and helpful to the sick and afflicted, and much of ministerial labor was spent in the homes of his people.
His Presbytery pays tribute to his worth as “a prince and great man in Israel—wise in counsel and efficient in action ─ as pastor, manifesting special care in visiting sick and comforting the afflicted. As a citizen, modest, exemplary, exhibiting at all times the beauty of holiness and the excellency of undefiled religion.”
Hugh Robison was received as a student of theology by the First Presbytery at North Bethany, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, April 17th 1848, and was licensed to preach by that Presbytery at Old Providence, Augusta County, Virginia. He studied theology at Erskine Theological Seminary, and after licensure missionated extensively in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. He was called to the pastorate of Ebenezer in Tippah County, and Shiloh in Lafayette County, Mississippi 1851, and having been transferred to the Alabama Presbytery he was ordained in the spring of 1852 at Starkville, Mississippi. He was installed at Ebenezer by Rev. J. L. Young, July 24th 1852, and at Shiloh by Rev. J. A. Sloan, and he continued to minister to Ebenezer until his death in 1881. He demitted his Shiloh charge in 1856.
He married Miss Mary Adaline Ellis of Due West, South Carolina on October 21st 1851. She was a daughter of John Lindsay and Mahala Dodson Ellis, and was born March 4th 1827. She was the mother of eight children. Of them John Ellis is a practicing physician at Bethany, Mississippi and Ralph Erskine and Hugh Henry are prominent educators in the State of Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Rev. Robison was acting chaplain of the 3rd Mississippi Regiment and was captured at Fort Donelson in February 1862, and was kept a prisoner of war mostly at Johnson’s Island. He came near dying there and was released and stopped over in central Kentucky and returned to his home in September 1862. His death was a melancholy providence. In returning from visiting a sick little child the horse he was riding became frightened by the barking of a dog and threw him, injuring him so seriously that after three days of great suffering he died, May 19th 1881. His last words were “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Rev. Robison was Moderator of the Synod of 1866, which met at Prosperity, Lincoln County, Tennessee. He was the stated clerk of the Memphis Presbytery from I856 to 1873 His body sleeps in the church-yard at Ebenezer hard by the church around which centered his ministerial labors for nearly 30 years.
Rev. Hugh H. Robison was a man of great force of character, a close student and an excellent pastor. Faithful in pulpit and pastoral visitation, he was greatly beloved throughout the whole community. His visits were peculiarly comforting and helpful to the sick and afflicted, and much of ministerial labor was spent in the homes of his people.
His Presbytery pays tribute to his worth as “a prince and great man in Israel—wise in counsel and efficient in action ─ as pastor, manifesting special care in visiting sick and comforting the afflicted. As a citizen, modest, exemplary, exhibiting at all times the beauty of holiness and the excellency of undefiled religion.”
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REV. H.H. ROBISON
BORN IN
Mecklenburg Co.N.C.
MAR. 1, 1824
DIED
MAY 19, 1881.
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