[What awful darkness shrouds all the earth]

Composer: Barney Elliott Warren

Barney Elliott Warren, 1867-1951 Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 20, 1867, Lew­is­ton, New York. Died: Ap­ril 21, 1951, Spring­field, Ohio. Buried: Vale Cem­e­te­ry, Spring­field, Ohio. Warren was con­verted in 1884 at a re­viv­al near Bang­or, Mi­chi­gan. Two years lat­er he joined Dan­i­el Sid­ney War­ner and his evan­gel­is­tic sing­ing com­pa­ny as a bass sing­er. The group was part of the Church of God Re­form­a­tion Move­ment in An­der­son, In­di­a­na. War­ren Is cred­it­ed with writ­ing over 7000 songs. His wife was Nan­nie Ki­gar, who be­longed to the sing­ing group that tra­veled the coun­try­side in the late 1800’s. Warren was a Church of God min­is­ter as well as a song writ­er,… Go to person page >