Background
Kimbrough, Robert Alexander was born on May 7, 1869 in Cornersville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Duke Love and Sallie Polk (Bryant) Kimbrough.
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Robert Alexander Kimbrough
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A.M., Southwestern Baptist U., Jackson, Tennessee, 1895. Student Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1902. Doctor of Divinity, Union U., Jackson, Tennessee, 1912.
Career
Ordained to ministry Baptist Church, 1892. Pastor country chs., 1892-1899. Assistant professor Latin and Greek, Union U., 1895-1899.
Principal Union Academy, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1899-1900. Pastor successively Shelbyville, Tennessee, Tupelo, Mississippi, and Blue Mountain, Mississippi, until 1911. President Union U., Jackson, Tennessee, 1911-1913.
Pastor Abilene, Texas, 1913-1915. Evangelist, 1915; pastor Shreveport, Louisiana, First Church, Vicksburg, Blue Mountain, Mississippi, until 1920. Enlistment missionary North Mississippi, 1920-1923.
Pastor Baptist Church, Charleston, Mississippi, 1923-1932, Baptist Church, Luxora, Arkansas, 1932-1936. Now pastor Middleburg Church Trustee Blue Mountain College, Simmons College, Abilene, Texas President Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, 1923-1932. Vice president Mississippi Baptist State Convention, 1927.
Membership
Member Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Mason (K.T.), Knights of Pythias.
Connections
Married Annie Donaldson, of Brazil, Tennessee, 1895 (died 1897). Married second, Martha Conn, of Corinth, Mississippi. Children: Robert Alexander, Martha (Mistress Harry L. Yates), Annie Walne (Mistress Paul Cooper).
