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Born: September 2, 1809, Petersburg, New York.
Died: June 22, 1874, New York City.


Lydia and her sister came to Christ with the help of Baptist missionary Eben Tucker. Following their conversion, the Baxter girls helped found the local Baptist church. After Lydia married, she moved to New York City. She was an invalid most of her adult life, but that didn’t stop her active mind from studying the Bible and writing. In 1855, she published Gems by the Wayside, a book of devotional poems. In addition, she often hosted meetings of religious leaders at her home.


Hymns

Cast Thy Net Again, My Brother
Gate Ajar for Me, The
Go, Work in My Vineyard
I’m Kneeling, Lord, at Mercy’s Gate
I’m Weary, I’m Fainting
In the Fadeless Springtime
Master Is Coming, The
One by One we Cross the River
Precious Name (Take The Name Of Jesus)


Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/x/baxter_lo.html

Born: October 6, 1818, Long Island, New York.

Died: May 20, 1883, Brooklyn, New York.

Vail was a hatter by trade, but wrote a large number of songs for Phillip Phillips, who was the first to publish Vail’s compositions. His works include:

* The Athenaeum Collection, 1863, containing previously unpublished songs by Stephen Foster
* Songs of Grace and Glory (with William Sherwin) (New York: Horace Waters & Son, 1874)

Sources

* Nutter, p. 467
* Reynolds, p. 427

Music

1. Close to Thee, Helen
2. Gate Ajar for Me, The
3. Guiding Hand, The
4. Lyndhurst
5. Nothing But Leaves
6. O Be Saved
7. Scatter Seeds of Kindness
8. Where Is Thy Refuge?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/v/a/i/vail_sj.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.