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Welcome, Happy Sunday

Author: Geo. Manwaring Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Welcome happy Sunday Used With Tune: [Welcome happy Sunday]

[Welcome happy Sunday]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. Beesley Incipit: 33346 51554 32333 Used With Text: Welcome, Happy Sunday

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Welcome happy Sunday, day of days the best

Author: George Manwaring Hymnal: The Songs of Zion, a Collection of Choice Songs #d213 (1908)

Welcome, Happy Sunday

Author: Geo. Manwaring Hymnal: Deseret Sunday School Songs #113 (1909) First Line: Welcome happy Sunday Languages: English Tune Title: [Welcome happy Sunday]

Welcome, Happy Sunday

Author: Geo. Manwaring Hymnal: The Songs of Zion #113 (1918) First Line: Welcome happy Sunday Languages: English Tune Title: [Welcome happy Sunday]

1840 - 1906 Person Name: H. Beesley Composer of "[Welcome happy Sunday]" in Zion's Praises (1st ed.) Ebenezer Beesley was born December 14, 1840, in Oxfordshire, England. He had two wives. He married his first wife in March of 1859. They left England in April of 1859 to move to Salt Lake City. They travelled by foot and handcart from Omaha with a company of 250-300 people. He married his second wife in 1869. Beesley was a musician and music teacher who directed the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Utah from 1880-1889 and other choirs in Utah. He wrote several hymns and edited Latter-day Saints Psalmody, the first LDS hymn book with both music and words. Dianne Shapiro from Find a Grave website, "Ebenezer Beesley Composed Nearly a Dozen Hymns in the Current Hymnbook and Conducted the Choir for Almost a Decade," from The Tabernacle Choir Blog, March 13, 2014, and "Beesley, Sarah Hancock, [Reminiscences] in Handcart Stories" from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints website "Pioneer Database" (accessed 1-1-2021)