1843 - 1890 Person Name: I. S. Stephenson, 1843-1890 Author of "Holy Father, In Thy Mercy" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Born: July 1843, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Died: April 1890, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Daughter of an army officer in Cheltenham, Isabella was an invalid most of her life.
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Stephenson, Isabella S. , is the author of "Holy Father! in Thy mercy" (For Absent Friends), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Isabella S. Stephenson