Bob Winton, grew up in the Beans Creek Community of Coffee County Tennessee. His family started attending the Lord’s church at Beans Creek in 1949, where he was privileged to have sister Ethel Croft as an outstanding Bible class teacher. All seven member of my father’s family were baptized into Christ, plus his wife, Marie. Each of his five children also obeyed the gospel.
Since first becoming acquainted with the gospel more than seventy years ago, he has had the honor to hear some of the greatest gospel preachers of the time. Some of these well-known to most members of the Lord's church, but some of them labored in the shadows, learning and dispensing the truth of God quietly and effectively. Not so many people in the brotherhood today knew such preachers as Luke Gibbs and Henry Simmons. Winton learned much and has been profited greatly from many gospel preachers and teachers through these many years. He is fully appreciative also to those many sound brethren who have published books which he has had the privilege to study.