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[Thou who comfortless hath wept]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 11152 22533 35444

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Thou who comfortless hath wept Refrain First Line: Christ is risen, Hallelujah! Used With Tune: [Thou who comfortless hath wept]

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Christ Is Risen

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Hymnal: Joy and Gladness #80 (1880) First Line: Thou who comfortless hath wept Refrain First Line: Christ is risen, Hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: [Thou who comfortless hath wept]

Christ Is Risen

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Hymnal: Grace and Glory #137 (1882) First Line: Thou who comfortless hath wept Refrain First Line: Christ is risen, Hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: [Thou who comfortless hath wept]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Thou who comfortless hath wept]" in Grace and Glory James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Mrs. A. L. Davison

1851 - 1887 Author of "Christ Is Risen" in Grace and Glory Fannie Estelle Davison Born: 1851, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Died: March 10, 1887, Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Carthage, Missouri. Fannie’s father was killed when she was 10 years old; after her mother’s remarriage to hotelier Henry Warner, the family moved to Carthage, Missouri. Fannie married court reporter Asa Lee Davison and they moved to Chicago, Illinois, then Madison, Wisconsin. Several of her songs appeared in publications from the Fillmore Brothers of Cincinnati, Ohio, including Songs of Gratitude (1877), Joy and Gladness (1880) and The Voice of Joy (1882). Lyrics-- Last Words, The Purer in Heart, O God © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)