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Rue Porter

1890 - 1967 Hymnal Number: 143 Author of "The Church" in Christian Hymnsongs Roland Rudolph Porter born in Arkansas, died in Missouri. He was a preacher in Churches of Christ in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. He is the author of at least four hymnals: Crowning Praise, No. 2 (1941), Favorite Songs of the Church (1948), Church Praises (1952), and Singing His Praises (1957). Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/17/2022) Monty Lynn, from History of the Restoration Movement website (accessed 9/20/2022)

L. B. Register

1887 - 1974 Hymnal Number: 92 Composer of "" in Christian Hymnsongs L. B. (Lonnie B.) Register lived in the Graceville, Florida area but in the country. He worked various jobs, while writing music and teaching singing schools and leading music at revivals and convention sings. A series of tragedies hit them right off the bat. Their infant daughter was born in 1916 but died very soon after birth. His main job ended and he became a rider in the turpentine woods, which was a big industry. He was a foreman, riding a horse from camp to camp checking progress and assigning work crews. Things were going fairly well. Then, tragedy. He was throwing his leg over the saddle, not knowing his scythe blade had flipped up on the other side. It went through his leg, piercing an artery and tendons. He lost use of the leg and nearly died from blood loss. While L. B. was recovering, the family lived with L.B.s father-in-law who owned a country store and also had the usual farm. They lived just south of Graceville, still basically in the town. It took an entire year to recover, strengthen and learn to walk again. During the year with his in-laws, he said he would drag himself out on the porch in the morning to see people going by and see the store. He would work on songs. It was there he put music to "I'm Going That Way". He wrote the music and his friend (they collaborated on many songs) wrote the words. It was published in the Fall if 1918. He always said that if you had to live a year with your father-in-law, you would be ready to start "Going That Way" too. From an account of his grandson, sent by his great grandson Noah Hicks

Aileene Hanks

Person Name: Aileen Hanks Hymnal Number: 49 Author of "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions" in Christian Hymnsongs

William Miller

1801 - 1878 Hymnal Number: 134 Composer of "" in Christian Hymnsongs

T. N. Pannell

Hymnal Number: 97 Composer of "" in Christian Hymnsongs

John McNeill

Hymnal Number: 15 Composer of "" in Christian Hymnsongs

John Morrison

Hymnal Number: 103 Author of "To Us a Child of Hope is Born" in Christian Hymnsongs

L. D. Huffstutler

Hymnal Number: 85 Composer of "" in Christian Hymnsongs Leonard Duffie Huffstutler Born: June 17, 1887, Liberty, Alabama. Died: January 7, 1977, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. Leonard was the son of Hugh Montgomery Huffstutler and Amelia E. Dickson, and husband of Sallie Cowart. He grew up on a Texas farm and attended Texas A&M University, College Station. He studied music with John Herbert, Rufus Cornelius, Homer Rodeheaver, and Arthur Sebren. He sang in quartets and taught in singing schools for the Hartford and Stamps-Baxter Music Companies. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

William Ellsworth Witter

1854 - 1954 Person Name: W. E. Witter Hymnal Number: 95 Author of "While Jesus Whispers to You" in Christian Hymnsongs Witter, Will Ellsworth, was born Dec. 9, 1854, near La Grange, New York, and educated at the Genessee State Normal School, New York, and the University of Rochester. From the latter he passed in 1880 to the Rochester Baptist Theological Seminary, and in 1884 he entered the Baptist Ministry. He has written several songs and poems, one of which:— While Jesus whispers to you (The Divine Call) has come into somewhat prominent use. It was written in July 1878, and originated mainly in the great anxiety of the author respecting two of his pupils. In 1878 it was set to music by H. R. Palmer, and included in his Book of Anthems, 1878: from whence it passed into Good as Gold, and I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London 1881. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)