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W. Allan Sims

1900 - 1955 Person Name: W. A. S. Hymnal Number: 100 Author of "Hallelujah, What a Savior" in Highest Praise William Allan Sims born in Texas, died in New Mexico. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

W. Oliver Cooper

1885 - 1963 Hymnal Number: 27 Author of "Keep Me Behind the Cross" in Highest Praise Use pseudonym Oscar J. Schwab

Marion W. Easterling

1910 - 1989 Person Name: M. W. E. Hymnal Number: 137 Author (Chorus) of "This World Can't Stand" in Highest Praise Born: March 12, 1910, Clanton, Alabama. Died: December 10, 1989, Birmingham, Alabama. Buried: Martin Memorial Cemetery, Clanton, Alabama. Marion W. Easterling, composed over 300 southern gospel songs. He received his music education in various singing schools, being taught by Ocie Lee DeVaughan, Dad Speer and others. In 1938, he was the youngest composer to sign a five year contract with the Stamps-Baxter Publishing Company. He has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for his long career as the programmer for the WKLF Radio stations's gospel program "America's Favorites". The program began in December 1947 and continued for 39 years, during which time, he broadcast over 20,000 shows. --www.findagrave.com/

George Thomas Speer

1891 - 1966 Person Name: G. T. Speer Hymnal Number: 43 Composer of "[My Savior dear is ever near]" in Highest Praise

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Person Name: B. B. E. Hymnal Number: 85 Author of "Dreaming" in Highest Praise Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: Ju­ly 16, 1881, Ben­netts, Bax­ter Coun­ty, Ar­kan­sas. Died: De­cem­ber 2, 1964, Bronte, Tex­as. Buried: Fair­view Ce­me­te­ry, Bronte, Tex­as. Bernard was the son of Da­vid W. Ed­mi­as­ton and Geor­gia Ann Flu­ty, and hus­band of El­la Al­len. He stu­died mu­sic un­der Ru­fus Tur­ner, Frank­lin Ei­land, W. H. Law­son, Ber­ry Mc­Gee, Em­mett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Her­bert, and ma­ny oth­ers, and taught sing­ing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and pub­lished songs through the Trio Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, Wa­co, Tex­as, and was di­rec­tor of the South­ern De­vel­op­ment Nor­mal School of Mu­sic in W­aco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

V. O. Fossett

1904 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 112 Composer of "[Jesus came when I was lost]" in Highest Praise Died: December 20, 1964. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include: Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

G. W. Lyon

1838 - 1903 Hymnal Number: 81 Composer of "[He knows the bitter, weary way]" in Highest Praise George Washington Lyon, born August 12, 1838 in DeKalb County, Georgia, was a musician, composer and music publisher and teacher; He died April 8, 1903 in Atlanta, Georgia. Dianne Shapiro, from Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14155468/george-washington-lyon) and obituary, Atlantic Constitution, April 9, 1903 (https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/34121111/) (accessed 7/5/2018)

Lonnie B. Combs

Person Name: L. B. C. Hymnal Number: 124 Author of "There's a Settled Peace" in Highest Praise

Thomas Ramsey

1905 - 1997 Hymnal Number: 137 Author of "This World Can't Stand" in Highest Praise Thomas Halliburton Ramsey born in Oklahoma, died in Texas. Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

W. Lee Higgins

1898 - 1953 Hymnal Number: 38 Composer of "[When paths are lone and dreary]" in Highest Praise Full name William Lee Higgins

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