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The Children's Thanksgiving Hymn

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: For this good year of ours

THANKSGIVING DAY

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Unknown Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11234 57123 45 Used With Text: For this good year of ours

[For this good year of ours]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Grace Wilbur Conant Incipit: 13321 23144 32342 Used With Text: The Children's Thanksgiving Hymn

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Author: Nancy Byrd Turner, 1880- Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #308 (1935) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: For Younger Children Thanksgiving Languages: English Tune Title: THANKSGIVING DAY

The Children's Thanksgiving Hymn

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Songs for Little People #54 (1915) First Line: For this good year of ours Topics: Thanksgiving Languages: English Tune Title: [For this good year of ours]

People

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Composer of "THANKSGIVING DAY" in The Beacon Song and Service book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "[For this good year of ours]" in Songs for Little People Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: September 9, 1858, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 7, 1948, Malden, Massachusetts. Grace remained single all her life. Her middle name was her mother’s maiden name. She served as musical editor for the Kindergarten Review for at least six years, starting in 1908. Her works include: Songs for Little People, with Frances Weld Danielson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Pilgrim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Benjamin S. Winchester (Pilgrim Press, 1913) Religious Dangers of Modern Tendencies in So-Called Religious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Children, with Frances Weld Danielson (Pilgrim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal

Nancy Byrd Turner

1880 - 1971 Author of "The Children's Thanksgiving Hymn" Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951. --Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.