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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Hymnal Number: 38 Author of "Will You Open Your Hearts and Let the Master in?" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

D. Tucker

Hymnal Number: 84 Author of "Sing, O sing of my Redeemer" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Aaron Jones

Hymnal Number: 77 Author of "Who Is He?" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

William Polley

Person Name: Wm. Polley Hymnal Number: 62 Author of "God is Always Near Me" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Parker Brown

Hymnal Number: 55 Author of "I'm Just a-Going Over Home" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

J. J. W. Bowman

Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "The Children of God" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Margaret Hines

Hymnal Number: 115 Author of "Steal Away Home to Jesus" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Josephine Robison

Hymnal Number: 147 Author of "Done Took the Children out of Pharaoh's Hand" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

M. Macoomer

Hymnal Number: 112 Author of "Waiting To-Night" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

A. A. Price

Hymnal Number: 92 Author of "Look Away to Bethlehem" in A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies

Julius Roberts

Hymnal Number: 125 Author of "Over 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

S. P. M.

Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "Christ is all the world to 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

Jacob Hart

Hymnal Number: 142 Author of "The Lamps all Lit up on the Shore" 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

Marshall W. Taylor

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)