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Ida Lilliard Reed (Smith), 1865-1951

Born: November 30, 1865, near Ar­den, Bar­bour Coun­ty, West Vir­gin­ia.
Died: Ju­ly 8, 1951, Ar­den, West Vir­gin­ia.
Buried: Eb­e­nez­er Meth­odi­st Church, Ar­den, West Vir­gin­ia.

Reed is said to have writ­ten 2,000 hymns in her life­time. In 1939, the Amer­i­can So­ci­e­ty of Com­pos­ers, Au­thors and Pub­lish­ers re­cog­nized her "sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tion to Amer­i­can mu­sic" by award­ing her a small "week­ly bo­nus."

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