A Garden of Memory

There's a garden of memory kissed by the sun

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [There's a garden of memory kissed by the sun]
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: There's a garden of memory kissed by the sun
Title: A Garden of Memory
Author: A. H. Ackley
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O that garden of memory, close by life's way

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Gospel Songs and Poems #d34

Audio

Old and New Songs of the Church #0

Songs of Comfort #d93

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