E. E. Hewitt

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt, 1851-1920

Born: June 28, 1851, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.
Died: Ap­ril 24, 1920, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.
Buried: Wood­lands Cem­e­te­ry, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Pseudonym: Li­die H. Ed­munds.

After grad­u­a­tion from school, Eli­za be­gan teach­ing. How­ev­er, her ca­reer was cut short by a ser­i­ous spin­al prob­lem. She par­tial­ly re­cov­ered, but was an in­val­id most of her life. She then turned to hymn writ­ing, which ran in the fam­i­ly—her cou­sin was hymn­ist Ed­gar Stites.

Eliza lived all her life in Phil­a­del­phia, where she was Sun­day School sup­er­in­tend­ent at the North­ern Home for Friend­less Child­ren, and lat­er at the Cal­vin Pres­by­ter­i­an Church. She was al­so a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Sun­day-school Helps.

--hymntime.com/tch