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Anonymous

Author of "Jerusalem! my happy home!" in The Sacred Harp 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.

William Bobo

1814 - 1887 Composer of "LONG SOUGHT HOME" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) William Bobo was born in New Prospect, Union County, South Carolina and lived in Cross Keys. He was the nephew of B. F. White. He served as deacon, chorister and Sunday school superintendent at Padgett's Creek Baptist Church. He was buried at Padgett's Creek. His tune, LONG SOUGHT HOME, appeared in the 1847 edition of Walker's Southern Harmony Dianne Shapiro, from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)