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Abner P. Cobb

1853 - 1923 Person Name: A. P. Cobb Hymnal Number: 371 Author of "Do You Know the Song?" in Christian Hymns III Born: October 27, 1853, Wooster, Ohio. Died: February 11, 1923. Buried: Fairlawn Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois. Cobb’s family moved to Decatur, Illinois, when he was about 13 years old. As a young man, he worked as a machinist. He graduated from Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, in 1878, and pastored in Normal, Washburn, Petersburg and Springfield, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Covington, Kentucky; and San Antonio, Texas. He was also an active evangelist, attending meetings in Boston, New York City, Minneapolis, and other major cities. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

D. A. Dean

Hymnal Number: 360 Author of "When evening comes and dusk descends" in Christian Hymns III

Carrie M. Wilson

Hymnal Number: 22 Author of "Sing on, O blissful music" in Christian Hymns III Pseudonym of Fanny Crosby. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

S. H. Chord

Hymnal Number: 130 Author of "Some sweet day when life is o'er" in Christian Hymns III

Wilkin Bacon

1909 - 1981 Person Name: W. B. Bacon Hymnal Number: 345 Author of "Can he depend on you" in Christian Hymns III Also called Big Chief Bacon (stage name). Wilkin B. Bacon was born on April 27, 1908, Talihina, Oklahoma of Choctaw Indian heritage. He is sometimes confused with Osage Chief Bacon Rind. Wilkin was baptized in 1937 at Sherman, Texas, by Burton Coffman. He sang baritone in the Lone Star Quartet, a Gospel group that performed on radio station KWFT in Wichita Falls, Texas, and later on station WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina. By 1945, Bacon had moved into ministry, preaching in Arlington, Texas; Fort Smith, Arkansas; Corsicana and Dallas, Texas; and Duncan and Talihina, Oklahoma. He died on October 9, 1981, Talihina, Oklahoma. NN

Lula Klingman Zahn

1876 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 224 Author of "There is a sea which day by day Receives the" in Christian Hymns III

Annie Cummings

Hymnal Number: 117 Author of "I will pray" in Christian Hymns III 19th Century

Mrs. Loula K. Rogers

Person Name: Loula Rodgers Hymnal Number: 310 Author of "Precious forever to you and to me" in Christian Hymns III Loula Kendall Rogers

Frank E. Roush

Hymnal Number: 423 Author of "Nearer to Jesus, the crucified one" in Christian Hymns III

William B. Blake

1852 - 1938 Hymnal Number: 315 Author of "Room at the cross for a trembling [sinner's, sinsick] soul" in Christian Hymns III William Burdine Blake, 1852-1938. William B. Blake, Sr., was born January 21, 1852, in London, Ohio; went to Virginia in the early 1870s and became connected with the music publishing house of the Ruebush-Kieffer Company, and remaining with this firm until 1889, when he moved to Ronceverte. He married Miss Alice Mary Horne, of Augusta county, Virginia, a daughter of Strother P. and Sarah Home. (Strother P. Horne was a Confederate soldier throughout the Civil war.) To this union were born seven children: Charles Stanley Blake, Bessie Mabel, William B,. Jr.. Henry St. John, Robert Russell, Mary Ellen and Edward Lester. At Ronceverte, Mr. Blake, Sr., associated himself in partnership with J. W. Hess in the publication of the Ronceverte News, a newly-established paper in the new lumber town, buying out the interest of Richard Burke, who had been a prominent figure in West Virginia journalism for a number of years. Burke had been the publisher of a vigorous newspaper at Union, Monroe county. About the year 1891, Mr. Blake bought out the interest of Mr. Hess and became the sole proprietor of the enterprise, changing the name of the paper to the Valley Messenger and News. This publication continued until April 21, 1901. Several years prior to this, in December, 1897, The West Virginia News had been established with Mr. Blake as publisher, and from one newspaper plant two newspapers were issued until April 21, 1901, when the latter publication, which covered a more extensive field, absorbed the Valley Messenger. This consolidation brought to the newer paper the good will of the older and the growth of the West Virginia News has been steady and continuous to this day. At the present time and for a number of years the News has enjoyed a larger circulation than any other weekly newspaper published in the State. History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole, Lewisburg, WV, 1917 (accessed 12/25/2023 from http://www.leighlarson.com/william_burdine_blake.htm)