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Katharyn Bacon

1884 - 1944 Author of "Sweetly Sleep" in Glad News No. 2 Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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Hammer Atchley

Composer of "[Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear]" in Glad News No. 2
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