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Born: January 18, 1826, Fall River, Massachusetts.

Died: April 15, 1882, Fall River, Massachusetts.

Buried: Somerset, Massachusetts.

A minister’s wife and teacher, Slade was assistant editor of The New England Journal of Education.

Sources

* Reynolds, p. 407

Lyrics

1. Beautiful Christmas
2. Beyond This Land of Parting
3. Footprints of Jesus
4. Gathering Home
5. Hark, the Gentle Voice
6. Kingdom Is Coming, The
7. Loved One, Farewell
8. Once o’er Judea’s Hills by Night
9. Tell It Again
10. Ten Virgins, The
11. There’s a Fountain Free
12. Who at My Door Is Standing?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/l/a/slade_mbc.htm

Born: 1828, Virginia.

Died: September 1875, near Nashville, Tennessee.

Everett originally planned to be a doctor, but went into music instead. He studied in Boston, Massachusetts, and Leipzig, Germany. He wrote many Gospel songs, and edited The Sceptre (New York: Biglow & Main). His brothers were composers Benjamin and Leonard Everett.

Sources

* Hall, pp. 97-100
* Nutter, p. 456

Music

1. Beyond This Land of Parting
2. Footprints of Jesus
3. Hark, the Gentle Voice
4. Loved One, Farewell
5. Richmond
6. There’s a Fountain Free
7. Who at My Door Is Standing?


Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/e/v/e/everett_ab.htm

Born in the Van Wert Ohio County Hospital on June 27, 1960, Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz, Jr. was the 3rd of 4 sons born to Betty Manz and firstborn to her second husband, Alvin.

His older siblings, John Paul Rose, Jr. (1956) and Joseph Henry Rose (1957), were born to John Paul Rose. In 1958, John Sr. passed away leaving Betty with 2 little boys to care for until she met Alvin Manz and got married to him on October 3, 1959.

Bud's younger sibling, Robert James Manz, Sr., was born on August 23, 1961.

Bud never married, instead he lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.