1833 - 1917 Person Name: J. B. Beall Hymnal Number: d239 Author of "Glory to God in the highest" in A Messenger for Jesus John Bramblett Beall was born in Georgia on March 19, 1833. He served in the Civil War. He wrote a book of poems and short stories "In Barrack and Field: poems and sketches of army life" (Publishing House of the M. E.Church South, Nashville: 1906) and was a newspaper editor. B. B. (Benjamin Burk) Beall was his nephew.
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John Bramblett Beall