Guilford Pylant, Boonsboro, Ark.
Minister - Arkansas Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, page 116]

Deceased Minister

Guilford Pylant
Arkansas Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1891, page 37]

Presbytery resolved to erect a monument over the grave of Rev. Guilford Pylant, and Rev. J. T. Molloy was appointed an agent to collect funds and superintend the erection of the monument.

A committee, consisting of Brothers Roach, P. Carnahan and Carl, was appointed to draft and present appropriate resolutions relating to Rev. Guilford Pylant deceased. [page 103]

Report of committee concerning Rev. Guilford Pylant:
Whereas, God has removed from our Presbytery, by death, (one) who was a minister in this Presbytery for nearly a half-century, and during all that time, so far as your committee can learn, he was an earnest, devoted and energetic worker for the Lord. When enfeebled by age so that he could not do regular preaching he engaged in selling our church books, securing subscribers for the periodicals, assisting others in revivals, praying in the families where he might be staying, and, in general, always doing something for the Master's Cause.

We recommend the adoption of these resolutions:

1. That in the death of this humble man of God this Presbytery has lost one of its most earnest, wise and safe advisers.

2. That his example as a Christian man and a minister is worthy of our institution.

3. That we bow submissively to the expressed will of our Heavenly Father.

E. M. Roach,
Peter Carnahan (signed) [page 109]
[Source: Minutes of Arkansas Presbytery, August 1891]