Mercer County IL Archives Obituaries.....Chidester, Erastus March 10, 1866
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Canfield Herald, Mahoning Co. OH, undated [1866]
CHIDESTER, Erastus
[Husband of Lydia nee SACKETT]
ca 1789 to 10 Mar 1866
77y 

Died in Rivoli, Mercer County, Ill., on the 10th of March, 1866, Erastus 
Chidester, in the 77th year of his age
Mr. C. was born in Cornwall, Litchfield C. Conn.  At the age of 13 he 
emigrated to Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio, with the rest of his father’s 
family.  He was married to Lydia Sackett, of Warren County with whom he lived 
happily until his decease.  They became the parents of seven children, two of 
them died in infancy, one lived to adult age and died in the blessed hope of 
the gospel, and the remaining four were permitted, with their pious mother, as 
a united christian family, to surround his bed while he took his dismission 
from the church militant to join the church triumphant.  The writer of this 
notice was intimately acquainted with the subject of it from a child and knew 
him to be a person of correct, sober habits in his youth.  He early became 
hopefully pious and united with the Congregational church in Canfield, and 
remained a beloved member of the same several years, when, on account of some 
conscientious scruples, he was led to transfer his relation to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which he lived a worthy, devoted member until he removed 
to Illinois about two years since.  As to his moral and christian character, 
he was considered by all who were acquainted with him as being “without 
spot.”  He always manifested a spirit of liberality towards other christian 
denominations.  He was evidently a man of faith and prayer.  “Blessed are 
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