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Evening Song

Author: Georgia T. Snead Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Now the day is dying in the golden west

[Now the day is dying in the golden west]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: Now the Day is Dying

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Author: Georgia Tillman Snead Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #396 (1921) First Line: Now the day is dying in the golden west Languages: English Tune Title: [Now the day is dying in the golden west]

Evening Song

Author: Georgia Tillman Snead Hymnal: Life and Service Hymns #164 (1917) First Line: Now the day is dying in the golden west Topics: Children Languages: English Tune Title: [Now the day is dying in the golden west]

Now the day is dying in the golden west

Author: Georgia T. Snead Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #d235 (1935) Languages: English

People

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B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Now the day is dying in the golden west]" in Life and Service Hymns Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

Georgia T. Snead

Author of "Evening Song" Georgia Tillman Snead was orn in Virginia. She wrote several volumes of prose and a book of poems. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)