Born: July 17, 1814, Penwortham, Lancashire, England.
Died: December 4, 1879, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Buried: Salt Lake City, Utah.
Clayton worked as a missionary in England before moving to America in 1840. He was city treasurer in Nauvoo, Illinois; clerk of the Nauvoo Temple; member of the Nauvoo Brass Band; Joseph Smith’s private secretary until 1844; and one of the group that moved to Utah with Mormon leader Brigham Young. He later played second violin in the Salt Lake Theater orchestra.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Alterer: Joseph F. Green, Jr.
Joseph Franklin Green was born in 1924 in Waco, Texas. He obtained a B.S from Texas Wesleyan College, an M.A. from Baylor University and B.D., M.D. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served in the Army during World War II, and then pastored Baptist churches in Texas and Colorado. For thirty years he was an editor at the Baptist School Board (LifeWay), and wrote many books and articles. He was also editor for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota, and then a pastor in the Presbyterian churches in Grandin and Hunter, ND. He died in Nashville in 2013.
Dianne Shapiro, from obituary, "The Tennessean, 14 Apr 2013, Sun, p. 86 Go to person page >
Translator: Juan D. Yoder
(no biographical information available about Juan D. Yoder.) Go to person page >
Credited to C. Dingley in Revival Melodies (1842), before appearing in The Sacred Harp (1844), attributed to J.T. White. The editors of The Makers of the Sacred Harp (2010) consider White to be the arranger, not the composer; Dingley is perhaps also just an arranger. —Chris Fenner
Display Title: ¡Todo ya bien está!First Line: Santos venid, no hay causa de temerTune Title: ALL IS WELLAuthor: Joseph Green; Juan D. Yoder; William ClaytonDate: 1995
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