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Beverly St. John (October 14, 1918 – May 18, 2017) was an elder in the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church The Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination spawned by the Second Great Awakening.Matthew H. Gore, The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, (Memphis, Tennessee: Joint Heritage Committee, 2000). ...
and served as that denomination's first female moderator of the General Assembly in 1988. The Cumberland Presbyterian denomination had been the first
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body to ordain women as clergy beginning with Louisa Woosley in 1889. St. John also authored a collection of essays for parents of small children, ''As the Twig is Bent'', in the mid-1960s, and co-authored a book of poetry with Rev. James Knight, "The Prophet is a Snow Man" in 1986. In 1977, St. John was awarded a Doctor of Letters Degree by Bethel University in
McKenzie, Tennessee McKenzie is a city at the tripoint of Carroll, Henry, and Weakley counties in Tennessee, United States. The population was 5,310 at the 2010 census. It is home to Bethel University and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology at McKenzie. ...
. In May 2008 at the age of 89 she was awarded the first Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from
Memphis Theological Seminary Memphis Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Although it is affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, it accepts and trains ministerial candidates from other denomi ...
. An endowment fund was established in honor of her and Bill St. John to benefit the seminary. St. John died on May 18, 2017.


Sources

*''2006 Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church'' (Memphis: Tennessee, 2006).


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