1821 - 1911 Person Name: Mrs. E. E. Marcy Topics: Christ Incarnate Author of "De profundis" in Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice, wife of Oliver Marcy, LL.D., Professor of Natural History in the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, was born in 1822. Her hymn, "Out of the depths to Thee I cry" (Lent), was contributed to the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal in 1877, and published therein in 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
==================
Born: December 22, 1821, Eastham, Connecticut.
Died: January 26, 1911, Evanston, Illinois.
Buried: Woodland Dell Cemetery, Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
She was active in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, and the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, and founded the Elizabeth Marcy Home in the Bohemian District of Chicago, Illinois. She was described as a "remarkable woman, full of originality in thought and expression, and known throughout Methodism as a writer in verse and prose, and as a speaker who can make even a prosy theme poetic."
--http://www.hymntime.com/tch
==================
Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice. (Eastham, Connecticut, December 22, 1821--January 26, 1911, Evanston, Illinois). Her hymn in five four-line stanzas was included in the Hymn and Tune Book (1866), Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with the first and third lines of the first stanza interchanged. It appeared again in The Methodist Hymnal, (1905) in its original form.
Source: Nutter and Tillett, Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy
My Starred Hymns
My FlexScores
My Hymnals
My Purchased Files
