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Julius Roberts

Hymnal Number: 125 Author of "Over Me" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

George W. Hatton

Person Name: Rev. Geo. W. Hatton Hymnal Number: 145 Words original of "The Home Just Beyond" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

S. P. M.

Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "Christ is all the world to me" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

W. H. Brown

Hymnal Number: 71 Author of "Gideon's Battle" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Charles Monday

Person Name: Chas. Munday Hymnal Number: 96 Author of "The Young Christian" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

William Warrington

Person Name: Wm. Warrington Hymnal Number: 139 Author of "Going Home" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Jacob Hart

Hymnal Number: 142 Author of "The Lamps all Lit up on the Shore" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

1846 - 1887 Editor of "" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies Marshall W. Taylor, born July 1, 1846 in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of former slaves. His father died sometime in the 1850's and he was raised by his mother, who taught him some of the songs appearing in his hymnal. His mother wanted her children to be well educated. Marshall Taylor began teaching in Kentucky in 1866, was licensed to preach in 1868 and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1870, serving churches in Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. He was active in the Lexington Conference of the M.E. Church, living in Cincinnati during the early 1880's. He moved to New Orleans around 1886. Dianne Shapiro, from "African American Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Neglected Source," by Irene V. Jackson-Brown from The Black Perspective in Music, 1976 in Readings in African American Church Music and Worship edited by James Abbington (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2001)