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[Don't let your sickle get rusty]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 13456 71535 15172

Don't Let Your Sickle Get Rusty

Author: Mrs. H. E. Jones Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [Don't let your sickle get rusty]

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Don't Let Your Sickle Get Rusty

Author: Mrs. H. E. Jones Hymnal: Loyal Praise #10 (1907) Languages: English Tune Title: [Don't let your sickle get rusty]

Don't Let Your Sickle Get Rusty

Author: Mrs. H. E. Jones Hymnal: Sing Unto the Lord #10 (1906) Languages: English Tune Title: [Don't let your sickle get rusty]

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Don't let your sickle get rusty]" in Loyal Praise Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Harriet E. Jones

1823 - 1915 Person Name: Mrs. H. E. Jones Author of "Don't Let Your Sickle Get Rusty" in Loyal Praise Harriet E. Rice Jones, 1823-1915 Born: April 18, 1823, Pompey Hollow, Onondaga County, New York. Died: 1915, Binghamton, New York. Buried: Oran Community Church Cemetery, Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. Daughter of Eleazer Rice, Jones lived in Onondaga County, New York. Her girlhood was spent on a farm, receiving what education the country schools and one term at high school could provide. She was always fond of reading, and was a great singer, with a clear ringing voice. On July 7, 1844, she married a son of Rev. Zenas Jones; her husband died in 1879. Her song writing career began when her poetry came to the attention of Dr. M. J. Munger, who asked if she could write some Sunday school hymns for him. She went on to write for Daniel Towner, J. C. Ewing, the Fillmore brothers, and others. --hymntime.com/tch