Short Name: | M. S. Kerby |
Full Name: | Kerby, M. S., 1857-1913 |
Birth Year: | 1857 |
Death Year: | 1913 |
Marion Sylvester Kerby, 1857-1913
Born: March 14, 1857, Clay County, North Carolina.
Died: February 22, 1913, Texas City, Texas.
Buried: La Marque Cemetery, La Marque, Texas.
Son of William and Caroline Kerby, Marion was listed as a farmer in the 1880 census in Coryell County, Texas. In 1887, he married Donia Easterling in Bell County, Texas, near Temple; Donia died in May of the following year.
Marion attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (1890-91), then married Sallie Munson in 1892 at Hope, Texas. He went on to serve as pastor of the Little River Baptist Church in Jones Prairie, Texas (1895-99). He returned to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville (1899-1901), where he received Bachelor and Master of Theology degrees.
In 1908, Kerby was pastor for part of the year at the Alta Loma Baptist Church, then pastor of the Baptist Church of La Porte, Texas (1908–10). He served as a missionary in the field in 1909, then as pastor of the of First Baptist Church, Texas City (1911-13).
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Tunes by M. S. Kerby (5) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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AIRHART | M. S. Kerby (Composer) | 2 | 56535 67165 13122 |
[Eden, sweet Eden, thou beautiful land] | M. S. Kirby (Composer) | 2 | 11132 14565 55553 |
[I have read of the sweet olden story] | M. S. Kerby (Composer) | 7 | 55512 33215 34512 |
[There are mansions of love in the land far above] (Kerby) | M. S. Kerby (Composer) | 3 | 55333 31121 65551 |
[Weary pilgrim go to Jesus] | M. S. Kerby (Composer) | 2 | 51312 56113 53312 |