William Bobo

William Bobo was born in New Prospect, Union County, South Carolina and lived in Cross Keys. He was the nephew of B. F. White. He served as deacon, chorister and Sunday school superintendent at Padgett's Creek Baptist Church. He was buried at Padgett's Creek. His tune, LONG SOUGHT HOME, appeared in the 1847 edition of Walker's Southern Harmony

Dianne Shapiro, from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)