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Hitchcock

Hymnal Number: 29t Composer of "COME, HUMBLE SINNER (FAIRFIELD)" in The Sacred Harp

1763 - 1807 Hymnal Number: 102 Author of "Fulfillment" in The Sacred Harp Born: 1770, New Bern County, North Carolina. Died: December 6, 1807, Sumner County, Tennessee. After a period of desperate depression, Granade came to Christ in 1800 at a Presbyterian camp meeting at Desha’s Creek, Sumner County, Tennessee. Ordained a Methodist circuit riding preacher, Granade was referred to by the Nashville Banner as the "wild man of Goose Creek" (Sumner County, Tennessee) and was also variously known as "the poet of the backwoods" and "the Wild Man of Holston." Granade worked in part in the world of shape-note singing in the Shenandoah Valley, where a variety of musical sources, both sacred and profane, were at play. His works include: Pilgrim’s Songster (Lexington, Kentucky: 1804) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ========================= Granade, John Adam (ca. 1763--1807, Wilson County, Tennessee). A Methodist circuit rider, admitted at a session of the Western Conference, 1 October 1801 at Ebenezer, Tenn. For three years he rode the Green, Holston, and Hinckstone circuits. He then settled in southwest Tennessee as a physician-farmer. He had a number of campmeeting hymns in Thomas Hinde's Pilgrim Songster (Cincinnati, 1810) whose preface states: " . . . our two western bards Mr. John A. Granade and Caleb J. Taylor, composed their songs during the great revivals of religion in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee about 1802-1804." --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Wilson Marion Cooper

1850 - 1916 Person Name: W. M. Cooper Hymnal Number: 73b Composer (alto part) of "SOLDIERS OF CHRIST (ARLINGTON)" in The Sacred Harp Produced a major revised edition of the Sacred Harp fasola tunebook, 1902.

J. W. Watson

Hymnal Number: 47b Composer, alto of "IDUMEA" in The Sacred Harp

E. J. King

1821 - 1844 Person Name: Elisha J. King, 1844 Hymnal Number: 77b Composer of "THE SAVIOUR'S WORD (TALBOTTON)" in The Sacred Harp Elisha J. King was the co-compiler (with B. F. White) of the fasola shape note tunebook The Sacred Harp, but died shortly after the volume was published.

D. C. Allen

Person Name: Rev. D. C. Allen Hymnal Number: 98 Composer (alto) of "GLORY SHONE AROUND" in The Sacred Harp

J. L. White

Hymnal Number: 70b Composer of "EVENING" in The Sacred Harp A son of Benjamin Franklin White, co-editor of the 1844 Sacred Harp and revisions thereof through 1870.