EV. ROBERT G. TININ was a member of the North Carolina and Virginia Christian Conference. He was born in 1818; on October 16, 1892, he was said to be in his 74th. At this time he was living in Orange county, North Carolina.

      In 1847, he was at the Conference at Pope's chapel in Granville county, as a licentiate, and was assigned to the Haw River circuit with Rev. J. A. Turner. This year he was engaged in a meeting at Hanks' chapel, in which fifty-four white persons and eleven blacks were converted. In 1848, he was engaged in a meeting of six days at Kedar, and attended the Conference at New Providence. He was chosen a delegate to the Southern Christian Association to meet in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1849. He was ordained at Hanks' chapel in 1849, by Elders D. W. Kerr, T. J. Fowler, and J. R. Holt.

      In 1851, he was at the Conference at Union chapel, in Alamance county, and in 1853 at the Conference at Mt. Pleasant, at which he was assigned to the following churches: O'Kelly's chapel, Hanks' chapel, Smyrna, New Salem, Pleasant Grove, and Liberty. He was at the Conference at O'Kelly's chapel in 1854, at which place the North Carolina and Virginia, and the North Carolina Conferences met as one. At the same time a monument to Rev. James O'Kelly was unveiled. He attended the Conference at New Providence in 1855. At the Conference at Hanks' chapel in 1856, he was appointed a delegate to the Southern Christian Association, and a fraternal messenger to the Eastern Virginia Conference, which he attended at Bethlehem in Nansemond county and at which he preached on Sunday. In 1857, at the Conference at Bethlehem in Alamance county, North Carolina, he served on the committee on the [275] Graham Institute, and was chosen a fraternal messenger to the Eastern Virginia Conference and a delegate to the Southern Christian Convention. A petition from the church at Jones' school house in Wake county, organized by Rev. R. G. Tinin was accepted, and the church unanimously received into the Conference. He was chosen also on the Board of Directors of the Home Missionary Society of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference. The Southern Christian Convention met at Cypress chapel, in Nansemond county, Virginia, to which he had been elected. He attended the Convention. In 1859, at the Conference at Union chapel, in Alamance county, he served on the committee on religious exercises, and on the special committee to which was referred the report of the Conference committee. At Pleasant Hill, in 1860, he served on the committee on home missions, and was pastor of Bethlehem church. At the Conference at Damascus, in 1862, he was appointed on the committee on temperance. And in 1864, at Antioch, in Chatham county, he was appointed. on the committee to consider the recommendations in the annual address, which recommendations referred chiefly to the publication of the Christian Sun and the employing of an editor. He was appointed by the committee on ministerial supply to have charge of Martha's chapel. In 1865, the Conference met at Oak Level in Franklin county, at which he was in attendance, and served as chairman of the committee on statistics. At O'Kelly's chapel, in 1866, he was appointed by the committee on ministerial supply to preach at Bell's, Christian chapel, Moore Union, Wake chapel, and Shallow Well. He attended the Conference at Union, in Alamance, in 1867, and likewise the Conference at Salem chapel, Forsyth county, in 1868. The Conference for 1869 was held at Wake chapel, which church he had been serving for several years in succession. At the Conference at Union, in Halifax county, [276] Virginia, in 1876, he was in attendance, but reported himself without work. He was appointed to Bethel and Pleasant Grove, Chatham county. He was at the Conference at Damascus, in 1878; also at the Conference at Christian chapel in 1879, at which he served on the committee on religious literature. He preached during 1881 to 1888. In 1884, he was present at Union, in Alamance county, and reported that he preached and labored as opportunity was given. At the Conference at New Providence, in 1886, and at Hanks' chapel in 1889, he reported to Conference. In 1893, he resided near Mt. Zion, and assisted Rev. W. J. Laine in his ministerial duties, and in the minutes for the year his name appears in the directory, but in 1894, it is left out. The roll was revised, the Eastern North Carolina Conference being organized at this time.

      During the time in which he was actively engaged in the ministry, the churches under his pastoral care prospered. He was prompt and regular in attendance upon the meetings of the Conference, and was a pious and exemplary minister of the gospel.

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