1838 - 1868 Hymnal Number: 274 Author of "Because I Knew Not When My Life Was Good" in The Hymnbook Williams, Sarah, only child of Robert Williams, born in London c. 1838, and died April 25, 1868. She contributed to the periodicals and published Rainbows in Springtide, 1866, and Twilight Hours, 1868. The hymn “Because I knew not when my life was good" (Repentanc), in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is from her Twilight Hours, 1868, p. 150, st. iv., v., vii. being omitted.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Sarah Williams