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Somebody Else Needs a Blessing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 22 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: We're counting the blessings, our joys we record
Somebody Else Needs a Blessing
[We're counting the blessings, our joys we record]
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Bentley DeForest Ackley Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11513 13546 53424 Used With Text: Somebody Else Needs a Blessing
[We're counting the blessings, our joys we record]
Somebody else needs a blessing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Christian Hymns #352 (1935) Hymnal Title: Christian Hymns First Line: We're counting the blessings Languages: English
Somebody else needs a blessing
Somebody else needs a blessing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Glad Tidings #d118 (1935) Hymnal Title: Glad Tidings First Line: We're counting the blessings Languages: English
Somebody else needs a blessing
Somebody else needs a blessing
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Gospel Melodies #d233 (1928) Hymnal Title: Gospel Melodies First Line: We're counting the blessings Languages: English
Somebody else needs a blessing
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: Eliza Edmunds Stites Hewitt Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Somebody Else Needs a Blessing" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
B. D. Ackley
1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley DeForest Ackley Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "[We're counting the blessings, our joys we record]" in The Cyber Hymnal Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver.
Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
B. D. Ackley
