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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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: ¡Oh, está todo bien!First Line: Santos, venid, sin miedo, sin temorTune Title: [Santos, venid, sin miedo, sin temor]Author: William Clayton, 1814-1879Date: 1992
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