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L. D. Huffstutler

Hymnal Number: 128 Composer of "[Some day a down the valley drear]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Leonard Duffie Huffstutler Born: June 17, 1887, Liberty, Alabama. Died: January 7, 1977, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. Leonard was the son of Hugh Montgomery Huffstutler and Amelia E. Dickson, and husband of Sallie Cowart. He grew up on a Texas farm and attended Texas A&M University, College Station. He studied music with John Herbert, Rufus Cornelius, Homer Rodeheaver, and Arthur Sebren. He sang in quartets and taught in singing schools for the Hartford and Stamps-Baxter Music Companies. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

J. E. Williams

Hymnal Number: 63 Composer of "[O would you be a blessing true]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

H. J. M. Hope

1809 - 1872 Person Name: Henry Hope Hymnal Number: 83 Author of "My Friend" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Hope, Henry Joy McCracken, a bookbinder, son of James Hope, was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1809; was in the employ of Messrs. Chambers, Dublin, for many years, and died at Shanemagowston, Dunadry, County Antrim, Ireland, Jan. 19, 1872. His hymn, "Now I have found a Friend" (Jesus the Friend) was privately printed in 1852. It seems to have been suggested by Mrs. Bonar's "Pass away, earthly joy" (p. 162, i.), stanza iv. of which is sometimes associated with it. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Mark D. Ussery

1880 - 1937 Person Name: M. D. Ussery Hymnal Number: 63 Author of "Don't Let Your Light Burn Low" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Born in Marlin, TX, he was associated with F. L. Eiland and the Eiland Music Company of Waco, TX. He spent his life writing songs, teaching music, and leading singing in rural churches. Ussery was credited with about 90 songs and 3 hymn books. Ne is buried in Winters, TX.

J. T. Ely

b. 1882 Person Name: J. T. E. Hymnal Number: 153 Author of "Who Will Sing for Me" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 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

N. W. Allphin

1875 - 1972 Hymnal Number: 191 Author of "Tell the Matchless Story" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Newton Washington Allphin wrote religious music, piano solos, and band marches. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He compiled and published twelve song books. - Monty Lynn from Our Garden of Song, edited by Gene C. Finley (West Monroe, LA: Howard, 1980).

Edgar W. Tidwell

Person Name: E. W. Tidwell Hymnal Number: 172 Composer of "[Tho, oft the way seems dark and drear]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

Jesse R. Varner

Person Name: J. R. V. Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Beautiful Home" in Crowning Hymns No. 8

J. W. Dennis

1866 - 1947 Hymnal Number: 105 Composer of "[I'm singing the praise of Jesus my Lord]" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Born: October 8, 1866, Lebanon, Missouri. Buried: Erick, Oklahoma.

May Justus

1898 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 101 Author of "I See a Gleam of Glory" in Crowning Hymns No. 8 Born: May 12, 1898, Del Rio, Tennessee. Died: November 7, 1989, Monteagle, Tennessee. Justus was born on May 12, 1898, in Del Rio, Tennessee, to a school-teacher father and stay-at-home mother. The family moved around quite frequently, but always stayed close to the Appalachian Mountains that helped shape Justus’s character and writing. “For I feel at home only in the mountains,” she has said in several interviews. She eventually attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she earned her Bachelors in Teaching. Early in her career, she grew fond of writing children’s literature—all dealing with the mountain folklore of her youth. Her first children’s book Gabby Gaffer was published in 1929 when Justus was thirty years old. The book was inspired by her students who always begged for one of Justus’s beloved stories after they finished their schoolwork. After her first publication, Justus continued to generate works, all while teaching. Her students inspired Justus to write more and more—and she did, dedicating countless stories to them. Justus’s love of children even led her to begin teaching handicapped students in her own home. After her retirement, Justus continued her work with children, operating a story-and-song program from her home, and maintaining a children’s library in her attic for twenty years. Justus won a bevy of awards for her literary achievements, including the Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize for Gabby Gaffer’s New Shoes in 1935, and the Boy’s Club Award in 1950 for Luck for Little LuLu, cementing her place as an adored children’s author. Justus passed away on November 7, 1989, at the age of 91. Posthumously, her Alma Mater established the May Justus Collection, housing bibliographies of all of her books, anthologies containing her short poems, photographs, manuscripts, sixteen handwritten letters, and other materials concerning her personal history. --www.mtsu.edu/tnlitproj/ (excerpts)