Sidney Burdette Denson

Short Name: Sidney Burdette Denson
Full Name: Denson, Sidney Burdette
Birth Year: 1853
Death Year: 1928

Sidney Burdette Denson was educated at a female academy in Troup County, Georgia and became a school teacher. She moved with her family to Alabama and married S. M. Denson. She was the first female song leader at the Chattahoochee Convention in 1880. She was a member of the Church of God.

Dianne Shapiro from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan (University of Illinois Press, 2010


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