Find a Grave memorial: Elder Robert Whatley “Robin” Carlisle

Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32878296/robert-whatley-carlisle : accessed 2026-11-09), memorial page for Elder Robert Whatley “Robin” Carlisle (1806–1890), Find a Grave Memorial ID 32878296, citing Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; maintained by Robert C Johnston Jr (47057826).

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Biography on the memorial (contributor's text, not a primary source):

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"

Parents linked on the memorial: Edmund Carlile (1776–1828); Elizabeth Ann Whatley Carlisle (1779–1854)

Spouses linked on the memorial: Clarissa Mitchell Owens Carlisle (1808–1887)

Siblings linked on the memorial: William Whatley Carlisle (1798–1883); James Whatley Carlisle (1802–1888); Malinda Augusta Carlisle Graggs (1803–1824); Edmund Whatley Carlisle (1808–1890); Greene Whatley Carlisle (1810–1882); Michael Andrew Jackson Carlisle (1816–1898); Elizabeth Strickland Carlisle Taylor (1818–1856)

Children linked on the memorial: Louisa Serepta Carlisle Monk (1827–1885); Lucy Ann Elizabeth Carlisle White (1829–1890); Edmund Jefferson Carlisle (1831–1906); John Bunyan Carlisle (1833–1914); Mary Josephine "Mollie" Carlisle Suttle (1838–1916); Clarissa Jane "Clara" Carlisle Webb (1841–1923); Elijah Franklin Carlisle (1849–1935)