1918 Cedrus Yearbook

19 18 DR.JAMES L. CHESNUT,D.D. AMESLYONS CHESNUT,son of Moses and Martha C hesnut, was born in Carnebore, County Antrim, Ireland, on Ma rch 21, 1867, and departed this life at the Reformed Presbyteri an parsonage, at ten minutes of two o'clock, February 7, 1918,'40.11_f ifty.._yearsk, months and seventeen days.'The--funeral services were h eld in the Main Street Reformed Presbyterian Church, of which he w as pastor, at 1:30, Saturday afternoon, February 9, 1918. This date was almost to the hour, twenty-five years after Dr. Chesnut was ordained and installed pastor by the Western R. P. Presbytery, over the Grand Cote R. P. congregation, Coulterville, Illinois, which was his first charge. Dr. Chesnut had two sisters, one of whom died in in fancy, while the other, Mary M. Chesnut, and the mother, live at Bush Mills , Ireland, the fattier having entered his eternal rest a few years ago, at nearly this time of the year. Dr. Chesnut received his education in the common schools of Ireland, the Colerain Academic Institute, the Reformed Presbyterian T heological Seminary, then located in Philadelphia, and the post-graduat e department of the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing a course of philosophy in the latter. He graduated from the theological seminary April 5, 18 93, having been licensed the previous year, by the Philadelphia Presbytery, to preach the gospel. Dr. Chesnut served as pastor of Grand Cote from February 9, 1893, until he left for Cedarville, Ohio, twenty years later. He ministered efficie ntly and faithfully and was widely known and beloved throughout souther n Illinois. The Cedarville R. P. congregation gave him two unanimous calls, th e second of which he accepted in the fall of 1914, and with his family moved 51