Second Daughter of SALOME the Second Daughter of REV.J.JOSHUA

Joshua      Salome      Gnanai           32 Gnanai 321 Samuel Johnson     322 Joshua Dennison     323 David Charleson     324 Cecil Wilson     325 Joycelin Mercy     326 Joseph Robinson	Mrs.Gnanai Yesudian was the second daughter of Salome John Sahayam, daughter of Rev.J.Joshua.  She grew up in the famous Mavady House and had her High School education.  She could speak and write the English Language with Proficiency and she kept up these qualities till her death.               She married Dr.S.Yesudian.  He was the son of Mr.Samuel of Agasteeswaram and his mother Pithavadial of Puthalam.  Mr.Samuel went toCeylon early in life, worked vigorously, amassed wealth and returned home.  He ventured into extensive plantations of Tea & Coffee in our hills but in the best of times, blight and draught failed him.  With his large number of properties in and around, he settled in Agasteeswaram.  He became a Philosopher and a Poet.                  Dr.Yesudian after completing his high school education with distinction, joined the Medical School run by the Neyyoor Medical Mission.  The course ran for five years and its results were finally evaluated at London by eminent doctors.  Out of the ten subjects, Dr.Yesudian obtained first class with distinction in nine subjects and one in the second class.  Then he joined the medical mission, Neyyoor and was posted to several stations including Ravanancherri, Kazhakootam, some of which were hilly areas highly infected with Malaria.  Mrs.Gnanai Yesudian helped him immensely more than a qualified nurse and accompanied him to all the stations, then mostly lonely posts, devoid of roads or light.  She was a woman of prayer and compassion and an invaluable devoted Companion in his profession.  In whatever difficult station, Dr.Yesudian was posted he accepted without demur, caring neither for his health or comfort.  Night and day, walking long distances, he brought health and happiness into many poverty stricken homes.                Due to the severe strain and effects of malaria his health deteriorated rapidly.  He was forced to leave the job early.  He returned to NAGERCOIL, his health having improved a little, started a private practice, housed in his own building behind the present Women’s Christian College, with a inpatient ward built just opposite the present Scott Christian Higher Secondary School (then the Whitely Hostel).  His Hospital became a busy Medical Centre and benefited a large number of poor patients.  He was one of those handful of men in NAGERCOIL who owned a car - a Crystler.               But his health failed and he died in the year 1932 at the age of fiftyone, leaving behind his wife and six children - Johnson, Dennison, Charleson, Wilson, Mercy and Robinson.  All were studying either in College or School and Johnson was doing his Medical Course at Madras.  But Mrs.Gnanai Yesudian was in possession of large areas of properties in NAGERCOIL and other parts of the Taluk.  She boldly met the situation, gave great importance to education and spent lavishly for their education.  Consequently Johnson became a popular private practitioner at Madras, Dennison retired as Deputy Chief Controller of Imports & Exports, New Delhi, Charleson as a Chief Chemist and Wilson as an Income Tax Officer at Bombay.  Mercy was given in marriage and Robinson became a popular business man at NAGERCOIL.                Mercy became a widow early in life, when her husband S.V.Inbaraj died very young.  Though it was a strong blow to Mrs.Gnanai Yesudian, She with her usual boldness took Mercy and her three children under her care.  Y.C.Wilson and Y.J.Robinson are her surviving sons.  All her grand children and great grand children are very well placed in life either in India or in other parts of the World.   “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (Timothy 4.7)                                                                                               Written by - Son Y.J.Robinson