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Come to Sunday-School

Author: Grace Glenn Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Come while the grass in the path we tread Used With Tune: [Come while the grass in the path we tread]

[Come while the grass in the path we tread]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 53333 55444 22234 Used With Text: Come to Sunday-School

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Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #278 (1888) First Line: Come while the grass in the path we tread Languages: English Tune Title: [Come while the grass in the path we tread]

Come, while the grass in the path

Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Songs for the Wee Ones #d15 (1876)

People

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Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

1843 - 1943 Author of "Come to Sunday School" Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Come while the grass in the path we tread]" in The Standard Sunday School Hymnal James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry