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Ebenezer Beesley
1840 - 1906 Person Name: E. Beesley Composer of "[Little ones, come! we will worship together]" in Deseret Sunday School Songs 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)
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Lulu Greene Richards
1849 - 1944 Person Name: Louisa L. Greene-Richards Author of "Our Angels" in Deseret Sunday School Songs Also known as Louisa L. Greene, Louise L. Greene, Lulu Green, Lula G. Richards. She was born in Kanesville, Iowa, the daughter of Evan M. Greene. She married Levi Willard Richards.
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