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Lou Singletary Bedford

1837 - 1945 Person Name: Lou S. Bedford Hymnal Number: d195 Author of "The lost soul's lament" in Soul Songs Mrs. Lou Singletary Bedford, author, born in Feliciana, Graves county, Kentucky, 7th April 1837. Her father was a teacher, and his little daughter placed n his school at six years of age. she had no special love for books, except for reading, spelling and grammar, but her ambition kept her at the head of most of her classes. she completed her course of study in Clinton Seminary. After leaving school she taught for a year or two. In 1857 she became the wife of John Joseph Bedford, a friend and associate of her childhood. There were six children born to them. Mrs. Bedford's literary career has in great measure become identified with Texas, her adopted home. From her sixteenth year she continued to write until her marriage, after which her pen was silent for nearly fifteen years. She has published two volumes of poetry."A Vision, and Other Poems" (Cincinnati and London, 1881) and "Gathered Leaves" (Dallas, 1889). Mrs. Bedford has for years contributed to various periodicals. She resided in El Paso, Texas where she was social and literary editor of the El Paso "Sunday Morning Tribune." From American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897

A. A. Hensler

Hymnal Number: d56 Author of "Hark, Jesus says, You've slighted me" in Soul Songs

Abram Weaver

Hymnal Number: d237 Author of "When the Captain calls the roll" in Soul Songs

J. Van Tassel

Hymnal Number: d219 Author of "Awake, he cometh" in Soul Songs

Mrs. H. A. Mabry

Person Name: H. A. Mabry Hymnal Number: d175 Author of "Working for the crown" in Soul Songs

A. D. Honeycut

Hymnal Number: d160 Author of "Go and tell Jesus your troubles" in Soul Songs

Emma M. Johnston

1835 - 1904 Hymnal Number: d19 Author of "The old fountain" in Soul Songs Born: October 18, 1835, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: February 15, 1904, Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Daughter of Robert Elliott Johnston and Grace Acheson Johnston, Emma was baptized at the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church. She attended different churches in Philadelphia, including Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, where composer William Kirkpatrick also worshipped. She worked as a school teacher, and McElroy’s 1873 Directory of Philadelphia listed her as an authoress. After her elder sister, Esther Elliott Johnston Boyd, was widowed, the two sisters moved to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and later to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where they shared a house. © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)