"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 294-295.  
Used by permission.  [Clinton]

ROBERT COOK BUCKNER:  To find the name of this eminent servant of the 
Lord among the list of Daviess County Baptists is indeed an honor.    
He is the father of the Orphanage Work among Texas Baptists.  
Kentucky Baptists have the honor of giving him to Texas Baptists. 
     He was the son of Elder Daniel Buckner.  He was born in 
Madisonville, Tennessee, on January 3, 1833.  In his sixth year he 
was brought by his parents to Pulaski County, Kentucky.  An interest 
in the salvation of his soul was manifested in his ninth year but it 
was not until the reached the age of twelve that he made his 
profession of faith in Christ and was baptized into the fellowship of 
the Somerset Church by his father.
     At the age of seventeen he was licensed to preach, after which 
he spent two years in Georgetown college.  At the age of twenty he 
was chosen pastor of the church at Albany; in Clinton County, 
Kentucky.  Here at the age of twenty-two he married a Miss Long and 
in September, 1854, took charge of the First Church in Owensboro, 
Kentucky.  His stay here was short as he resigned in June, 1855, to 
take the Agency of the Board of Domestic Missions and still later the 
pastorate of the church at Salvisa in Mercer County.
     In 1859 he visited Texas for the purpose of recuperating his 
health.  This visit led to his removal to the Lone Star state.  Here  
he raised the money to build a High School at Ladonia.  Meanwhile he 
published a small work on infant baptism entitled "The Absence of 
Divine Testimony."  In 1860 he became pastor of the church at Paris, 
Texas.  He remained here until 1874 when he began the publication of 
the Religious Messenger.  A year later he changed the place of 
publication from Paris to Dallas, Texas, and subsequently changed the 
name of the paper to the Texas Baptist.  He continued the publication 
of this paper until about the year 1885.  In the meantime he became 
interested in Orphanage Work and began what is now known as the 
Buckner Orphanage.  This brings us to an end of his useful life 
because of a lack of information.  His name will forever be a 
household word among Texas Baptists.

Buckner Long
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Daviess TX TN Pulaski Georgetown-Scott Salvisa-Mercer

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