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J. Graydon Hall

Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "Careless driver" in Quartet Song Book No. 4

Hymnal Number: d22 Author of "An empty mansion" in Quartet Song Book No. 4 Mrs. Karnes also wrote "Troublesome Waters" which appears in the hymnal "Golden Key" published by Stamps-Baxter in 1940. =========== 20th Century Lyrics-- Empty Mansion, An If Heaven’s a Dream Troublesome Waters --www.hymntime.com/tch/

J. S. Torbett

1868 - 1941 Hymnal Number: d48 Author of "The Glory Land Way" in Quartet Song Book No. 4 James Samuel Torbett Born in Georgia in 1868. He was a gospel song writer. He died in Texas. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary on Find a Grave memorial website (accessed 1/29/2020)

J. T. Ely

b. 1882 Hymnal Number: d55 Author of "Just as the sun went down" in Quartet Song Book No. 4 John Thomas (J.T.) Ely was born near Emory, Texas, in Rains County in the little town of Point. He lived on his family farm, and was a frequent teacher at a number of Baptist singing schools. He has numerous songs published in both R.E. Winsett and Stamps-Baxter Catalogues. This picture was taken from V.O. Stamps' “Radio Song Album,” of early 1937. --Ely's great-granddaughter, July 2023, via D.J. Bulls, in an email to Tina Schneider ELY, John Thomas ("Tommy") born : 19 August 1882, Rains Co., TX parents : Jefferson Isaac Ely & Mattie Cornelious Lennon married : Annie Bell Coats, 1902 children : Helen Easter, Opa, Jefferson Isaac, Oscar, Inez, Tommy Jewell, Ollie Lee, Helen, Charles Henry, Willie Joseph

John B. Troup

Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "Valley of the moon" in Quartet Song Book No. 4

L. E. Green

Hymnal Number: d32 Author of "I have found the way that leads to endless day" in Quartet Song Book No. 4

Albert M. Bean

Person Name: A. M. Bean Hymnal Number: d88 Author of "When I get to the end of the way" in Quartet Song Book No. 4

Chesley Bray

Hymnal Number: d3 Author of "When we walk the streets of gold" in Quartet Song Book No. 4 Aaron Chesley Bray, Sr. was born in Houlka Mississippi in 1905. He died in 1968 and is buried in Pinecrest Cemetery in Calhoun County, Mississippi. His musical education came from the Hartford Music Normal, the Vaughn Music Normal and instruction received from J.A. Roane, W.B. Walbert, Prof. Huddleston and Prof. Lancaster. He was principle of Southern Gospel School of Music for eight years and a harmony instructor at the Denson School of Music in Haleyville, Alabama. In a 1937 publication of the Who’s Who of Southern Singers and Composers, Bray was reported to have written 100 songs. It stated that Bray and his wife, Mattie, traveled the area performing as the Bray duet. He was engaged in the grocery business in Houlka. In 1945, he began publishing a newspaper in Bruce MS, but restraints for raw materials after WWII forced him to find other revenue sources. He purchased his first dry cleaners shortly afterwards in Mathiston, MS but kept his printing press which allowed him to provide books for Gospel singings. It was reported he would travel from singing to singing on weekends, selling his freshly printed hymnals of the latest Gospel renditions. He moved back to Bruce where he remained in the dry cleaning business, selling pianos in the front of his business. He later sold the dry cleaners to one of his sons and he became a Kimball Piano dealer. He spent his later years selling and servicing pianos and organs, writing Gospel songs and traveling the singing circuit. Aaron Bray (grandson)

John Daniel

Hymnal Number: d16 Author of "Good news, good news" in Quartet Song Book No. 4

Bernice M. Brostrom

Hymnal Number: d9 Author of "In the shadow of the cross" in Quartet Song Book No. 4 Berniece Marie Cannon Brostrom USA 1914-1992. Born at Oakville, IA, one of five children, not much information was found about her, although she was adept at writing verse. In 1934 she married Rv Ralph Maurice Brostrom, and they had a son, Dennis Raymond. Her husband pastored in the Dakotas, MN, CA, and worked in administration for a Bible college in Canada. She died at Bloomington, MN (age 78). She is said to have written a good number of hymn lyrics and other songs. Her husband died in MN in 2001. John Perry