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Curtis Stewart

Person Name: C. S. Hymnal Number: 48 Author of "I Want to Live Closer" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Mrs. Roy Corruth

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

1922 - 2011 Person Name: C. D. Hymnal Number: 68 Author of "I'll Not Be Weary Any More" in Radio Specials and Spirituals Born: July 4, 1922, McGhee, Arkansas. Died: January 29, 2011, Crossett, Arkansas. Buried: Crossroads Cemetery, Crossett, Arkansas. Curtis Benson Doss, born on July 4, 1922, in McGehee to Clyde Doss and Estelle Boone Clayton, was a retired accounting office employee of Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Crossett. Following his retirement, he served as minister of music for Baptist churches in Crossett, Hazen, North Little Rock, Hot Springs Village and Bastrop, LA. He was a gospel music songwriter of many years, publishing songs for Jeffress Music Co. and Stamps Quartet Music Co. of Dallas, TX. He was a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and First Baptist Church of Crossett. He and his wife, Norma, formed the Wonder State Quartet in 1947, traveling the South performing at conventions and churches. --www.findagrave.com

Mrs. R. N. Grisham

Hymnal Number: 4 Composer of "[God's calling you, O hear His tender voice]" 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/

Otis L. McCoy

1897 - 1995 Hymnal Number: 40 Composer of "[I am glad and contented because I have rented]" in Radio Specials and Spirituals McCoy, Otis Leon. (Ninety-Six, South Carolina, February 17, 1897--?). Church of God. Minister, music editor, and songwriter. Graduate of James D. Vaughan Conservatory. Organized the music department of the Church of God Publishing House as Tennessee Music and Printing Company in 1931. Served as music editor for a total of 23 years. Retired in 1961 and continued to be quite active as a tenor soloist. Best known songs: "Naturalized for Heaven" and "Send Me." --Charles L. Towler, DNAH Archives

George Thomas Speer

1891 - 1966 Person Name: G. T. Speer Hymnal Number: 140 Composer of "[As falls the tree so must it lie]" 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

J. M. Henson

1887 - 1972 Person Name: J. M. H. Hymnal Number: 63 Author of "Hear Thou My Prayer" in Radio Specials and Spirituals

Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "The Valley Of Decision" in Radio Specials and Spirituals Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives