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J. H. Hart

Person Name: J. H. H. Hymnal Number: 8 Author of "No Changes in Heaven" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

A. M. Cheek

Hymnal Number: 127 Arranger of "[Hear you not the railroad whistle, lo, the gospel train is near]" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

W. O. Duke

Hymnal Number: 61 Composer of "[Life has so many allurements]" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

1898 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 39 Author of "Somewhere" in Radio Specials and Spirituals Born: May 12, 1898, Del Rio, Tennessee. Died: November 7, 1989, Monteagle, Tennessee. Justus was born on May 12, 1898, in Del Rio, Tennessee, to a school-teacher father and stay-at-home mother. The family moved around quite frequently, but always stayed close to the Appalachian Mountains that helped shape Justus’s character and writing. “For I feel at home only in the mountains,” she has said in several interviews. She eventually attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she earned her Bachelors in Teaching. Early in her career, she grew fond of writing children’s literature—all dealing with the mountain folklore of her youth. Her first children’s book Gabby Gaffer was published in 1929 when Justus was thirty years old. The book was inspired by her students who always begged for one of Justus’s beloved stories after they finished their schoolwork. After her first publication, Justus continued to generate works, all while teaching. Her students inspired Justus to write more and more—and she did, dedicating countless stories to them. Justus’s love of children even led her to begin teaching handicapped students in her own home. After her retirement, Justus continued her work with children, operating a story-and-song program from her home, and maintaining a children’s library in her attic for twenty years. Justus won a bevy of awards for her literary achievements, including the Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize for Gabby Gaffer’s New Shoes in 1935, and the Boy’s Club Award in 1950 for Luck for Little LuLu, cementing her place as an adored children’s author. Justus passed away on November 7, 1989, at the age of 91. Posthumously, her Alma Mater established the May Justus Collection, housing bibliographies of all of her books, anthologies containing her short poems, photographs, manuscripts, sixteen handwritten letters, and other materials concerning her personal history. --www.mtsu.edu/tnlitproj/ (excerpts)

Henry L. Thompson

1903 - 1989 Hymnal Number: 42 Author of "We're Going Home" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Marjorie Crumley

Hymnal Number: 21 Composer of "[I'm in love with my Savior and He's in love with me]" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Mrs. R. N. Grisham

Hymnal Number: 4 Composer of "[God's calling you, O hear His tender voice]" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Mrs. Roy Corruth

Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "After I'm Tested and Tried" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Pledger B. Jones

1885 - 1961 Person Name: P. B. J. Hymnal Number: 29 Arranger of "Can I Forget?" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Simeon J. Calvert

1878 - 1956 Person Name: Rev. S. J. C. Hymnal Number: 126 Author of "A Friend to Man" in Radio Specials and Spirituals Born: May 22, 1878, Cullman County, Alabama. Died: July 1956, Cullman, Alabama. Buried: Good Hope Cemetery, Good Hope, Alabama. We have little data on Calvert, except that he was a minister. --www.hymntime.com/tch/