Close to Thee

Author: Fanny J. Crosby

Pseudonymns: James L. Black, Henrietta E. Blair, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, Lyman G. Cuyler, Lizzie Edwards. Grace J. Frances, Victoria Frances, Frank Gould, Frances Hope, Annie L. James, Martha J. Lankton, Maud Marion, Sallie Martin, Alice Monteith, Sallie Smith, J. L. Sterling, John Sterling, Julia Sterling, Ida Scott Taylor, Carrie M. Wilson, Clara M. Wilson Frances Jane Crosby, the daughter of John and Mercy Crosby, was born in Southeast, Putnam County, N. Y., March 24, 1820. She became blind at the age of six weeks from maltreatment of her eyes during a spell of sickness. When she was eight years old she moved with her parents to Eidgefield, Conn., the family remaining there four years. At the age of fifteen she entered the New Yo… Go to person page >