Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy

Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice, wife of Oliver Marcy, LL.D., Professor of Natural History in the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, was born in 1822. Her hymn, "Out of the depths to Thee I cry" (Lent), was contributed to the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal in 1877, and published therein in 1878.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Born: December 22, 1821, Eastham, Connecticut.
Died: January 26, 1911, Evanston, Illinois.
Buried: Woodland Dell Cemetery, Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

She was ac­tive in the Wo­man’s Christ­ian Tem­per­ance Un­ion, the Wo­man’s Home Mis­sion­a­ry So­ci­e­ty, and the Wo­man’s For­eign Mis­sion­a­ry So­ci­e­ty, and found­ed the Eliz­a­beth Mar­cy Home in the Bo­he­mi­an District of Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. She was des­cribed as a "re­mark­a­ble wo­man, full of orig­in­al­i­ty in thought and ex­pres­sion, and known through­out Meth­od­ism as a writ­er in verse and prose, and as a speak­er who can make ev­en a pro­sy theme po­e­tic."

--http://www.hymntime.com/tch

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Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice. (Eastham, Connecticut, December 22, 1821--January 26, 1911, Evanston, Illinois). Her hymn in five four-line stanzas was included in the Hymn and Tune Book (1866), Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with the first and third lines of the first stanza interchanged. It appeared again in The Methodist Hymnal, (1905) in its original form.

Source: Nutter and Tillett, Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church.

--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives