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Sarah Emily York

Short Name: Sarah Emily York
Full Name: York, Sarah Emily, 1819-1851
Birth Year: 1819
Death Year: 1851

York, Sarah Emily, née Waldo, an American writer, was b. in 1819, and d. in 1851. Her Memoir was published by Mrs. Medberry in 1853. Her hymn, "I'm weary of straying, O fain would I rest" (Rest desired), appeared in the Reformed Dutch Psalms & Hymns, 1847.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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