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Theodore Sisk

1906 - 1979 Hymnal Number: 126 Author of "Ring ye the bells of heaven" in Boundless Love Theodore Roosevelt Sisk was born in Hall County, Georgia, July 15, 1906. He studied singing under his father, Jesse Lovell, and continued studying under other teachers. He wrote for or five hundred songs and was the music editor and member of The Sisk Music Company, publisher of gospel song books in Toccoa, Georgia. He died 1979 in Lexington, Ky. Dianne Shapiro from Who's Who among southern singers and composers by Otis J. Knippers; James D. Vaughan, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., 1937

Sanford J. Massengale

Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "I know it is right" in Boundless Love Sanford Jesse Massengale went to Stamps Music School when it was in Dallas, Texas. In 1929 he graduated. He wrote a total of 1800 church songs. Massengale died in 1992 & is buried in Wetumka, Oklahoma.

Kenneth Fulkerson

Hymnal Number: 78 Author of "When Jesus calls I'm going home" in Boundless Love

Thomas J. Farris

b. 1877 Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "No more partings can come" in Boundless Love Born: June 1, 1877, near Timbo, Arkansas. (c) The Cyber Hymnal (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Floyd E. Hunter

Hymnal Number: 66 Author of "Marching on the way" in Boundless Love 20th Century

B. I. Cline

1910 - 2006 Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "Singing in glory land" in Boundless Love Born: December 8, 1910, Elkhurst, West Virginia. Died: November 12, 2006, Charleston, West Virginia. Buried: Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes, West Virginia. Cline’s works include: Camp Meeting Songs, 1958 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

G. A. Thacker

Hymnal Number: 105 Author of "The land of by and by" in Boundless Love

A. H. Elliott

Hymnal Number: 64 Author of "I'll have a new home" in Boundless Love

Marian Longfellow

1840 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 99 Author of "He knows the bitter, weary way" in Boundless Love Longfellow, Marian, born at Portland, Maine, April 1, 1849, and married to W. F. Morris, of Boston, May 9, 1876. Her hymn "He knows the bitter, weary way" (Times of Trial) was written Sep. 15, 1874. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Marian was the daughter of Stephen Longfellow (1805-1850), and niece of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and hymnist Samuel Longfellow. She spent her girlhood (and did her first writing) in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1876, she married William Francis Morris of Boston. She is remembered as a poet, lecturer, and translator. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)