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Born: August 1, 1840, near Miami, Saline County, Missouri.
Died: November 30, 1904, at his home in Dayton, Virginia.
Buried: Dayton, Virginia.

Kieffer’s grandfather was Virginia musician Joseph Funk. In the American civil war, Kieffer served in the 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the founders of the Kieffer-Ruebush Gospel music publisher in Dayton, Virginia, and edited the Musical Million magazine. His works include:

Christian Harp
Temple Star
Hours of Fancy, or Vigil and Vision (Dayton, Virginia: 1881)


Hymns

Jesus Will Let You In
Resurrection, The
Twilight Is Falling

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/k/i/kieffer_as.html

Born: August 1, 1840, near Miami, Saline County, Missouri.
Died: November 30, 1904, at his home in Dayton, Virginia.
Buried: Dayton, Virginia.

Kieffer’s grandfather was Virginia musician Joseph Funk. In the American civil war, Kieffer served in the 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the founders of the Kieffer-Ruebush Gospel music publisher in Dayton, Virginia, and edited the Musical Million magazine. His works include:

Christian Harp
Temple Star
Hours of Fancy, or Vigil and Vision (Dayton, Virginia: 1881)


Hymns

Jesus Will Let You In
Resurrection, The
Twilight Is Falling

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/k/i/kieffer_as.html

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.