1805 - 1886 Author of "The Gospel Ship" Ruth Davis Vallerchamp was born to Jonathan and Rebecca Davis of Catawissa. In 1829 she married Azima Vanderchamp. They lived in Mount Pleasant township, Columbia County, where they joined the Evangelical Association in 1845. Azima became a licensed preacher in 1847 and preached until 1852. Ruth Vallerchamp was known as the hymn writer laureate of the Evangelical Association. Many of her poems were published in their newspaper Der Christliche Botschafter
Dianne Shapiro, from "Early Hymn Writers of Evangelical Association associated with New Berlin, PA" by Milton W. Loyer (accessed from https://www.lycoming.edu/umarch/Early_Hymn_Writers.htm)
Ruthanna Vallerchamp