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George Thomas Speer

1891 - 1966 Person Name: G. T. S. Hymnal Number: 62 Author of "Come On" in Songs of Spring

1904 - 1964 Hymnal Number: 58 Composer of "[I am glad that you love my Lord, that you are doing His will]" in Songs of Spring Died: December 20, 1964. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include: Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Person Name: B. B. E. Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "The Highway Home" in Songs of Spring Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: July 16, 1881, Bennetts, Baxter County, Arkansas. Died: December 2, 1964, Bronte, Texas. Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Bronte, Texas. Bernard was the son of David W. Edmiaston and Georgia Ann Fluty, and husband of Ella Allen. He studied music under Rufus Turner, Franklin Eiland, W. H. Lawson, Berry McGee, Emmett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Herbert, and many others, and taught singing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and published songs through the Trio Music Company, Waco, Texas, and was director of the Southern Development Normal School of Music in Waco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Eugene Wright

Hymnal Number: 31 Composer of "[When this life with its toiling is ended]" in Songs of Spring

Vida Munden Nixon

b. 1894 Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "On the Solid Rock" in Songs of Spring

Theodore Sisk

1906 - 1979 Person Name: T. S. Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "Jesus Brings Joy to My Soul" in Songs of Spring Theodore Roosevelt Sisk was born in Hall County, Georgia, July 15, 1906. He studied singing under his father, Jesse Lovell, and continued studying under other teachers. He wrote for or five hundred songs and was the music editor and member of The Sisk Music Company, publisher of gospel song books in Toccoa, Georgia. He died 1979 in Lexington, Ky. Dianne Shapiro from Who's Who among southern singers and composers by Otis J. Knippers; James D. Vaughan, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., 1937

Elsie Osborn

Person Name: E. Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "Where the Roses Never Fade" in Songs of Spring

W. Lee Higgins

1898 - 1953 Hymnal Number: 13 Composer of "[There's a beautiful Eden so sweet]" in Songs of Spring Full name William Lee Higgins

Thomas J. Farris

b. 1877 Person Name: T. J. F. Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "Keep the Joybells Ringing" in Songs of Spring Born: June 1, 1877, near Timbo, Arkansas. (c) The Cyber Hymnal (www.hymntime.com/tch)

H. N. Lincoln

1859 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 53 Composer of "[Now the day is over]" in Songs of Spring Horace Neely Lincoln, 1859-1948. Horace was the son of James Lincoln and Emaline King, and husband of Etta Lee Thurmand (married 1887). He moved with his family to Texas when he was seven years old. At age 10, he began attending a singing school conducted by James M. Jolley of Mississippi. In 1880, he taught his first singing class in his old neighborhood school house. Later that year, he attended his first normal music school, taught at Mountain Home (now Holland), Texas. Lincoln had other musical training under L. B. Shook (a former student of Philip Bliss) and John McPherson of Illinois. In 1898, he graduated from the Chicago National College of Music, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course under Horatio Palmer. Lincoln eventually became president of the Songland Music Company, and the World’s Normal Musical College. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime/tch)

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