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Miss Grant

Person Name: Grant Author of "Jesus, I my cross have taken" in African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book

E. E. Long

Composer of "[Jesus, I my cross have taken]" in New Onward and Upward

Composer of "MONROE" in The Sacred Harp W. S. Turner was the son of James R. Turner and was a Methodist minister. He died at Fort Valley, Georgia in 1891. He composed a large number of hymns and tunes. The Original Sacred Harp, 1911

Marechio

Composer of "AUTUMN" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

R. Cecil

1748 - 1810 Composer of "ST. SEBASTIAN" in The Church Hymnal Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Gerhard T. Alexis

1889 - 1927 Person Name: Gerhard Theodore Alexis, 1889 - 1927 Composer of "SERAPHIM" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America

Charles Russell Hodge

Person Name: C. R. Hodge Composer of "[Jesus, I my cross have taken]" in The Morning Light, Enlarged

J. P. Knight

1812 - 1887 Person Name: Joseph Philip Knight Composer of "[Jesus, I my cross have taken]" in Hymns of Praise with Tunes Joseph Philip Knight, 1812-1887 Born: July 26, 1812, Bradford-on-Avon, England. Died: June 1, 1887, Great Yarmouth, Lincolnshire, England. Pseudonym: Philip Mortimer. Knight studied under J. Corfe, the organist at Bristol Cathedral, and began composing around age 20. In 1839, he visited America, and for a year taught music in the school in Vermont run by Emma Willard. It was then that he wrote the music for "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" while there. Some years later, he was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter and became Vicar of St. Agnes, Scilly Isles. --www.hymntime.com/tch

D. L. Bledsoe

1860 - 1933 Composer of "[Jesus, I my cross have taken]" in New Melodies David Letlo Bledsoe wrote and published dozens of similar hymns for use in singing schools in Georgia. He was born in North Carolina in 1860 and died in Iron City, GA in 1933. D. L. Bledsoe's granddaughter (via Facebook)