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I'm researching some hymns written by a family member, and have been having a lot of trouble - until today.
I've made the breakthrough, having found the hymn listed on this site.
http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/EHS1918/d53
http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/ESB1914/d61
Here's my issue - it appears, from the info listed, to be the same hymn as the one I have a copy of, but from yet another hymnal. Since the pages I have are photocopies, with no information about the hymnal they came from, other than scattered from the pages themselves (this one happens to have copyright info at the bottom!), I have no idea how to find what hymnal it came from, other than to know it's NOT the ones listed!
In the copy I have, it's #11, page 13. Copyright says "1911, by the Eureka Pub. Co."
The author of the text is, as listed on this site, Jesse A. South. The composer is listed in my copy as H. Sylvester Nance, which is my relative (thus why I have these pages in the first place!). I have bio info, as well as more hymns written by H. S. Nance, but can't seem to find him listed in any of the hymn websites, or the hymnals I've managed to find thus far.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Kim Sargen
(great-great granddaughter of H. S. Nance)
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Eureka hymnals
Hi Kim,
Your photocopied pages may have come from one of these hymnals. We unfortunately have the hymns for these hymnals listed alphabetically rather than by number and we only have the text information for these hymnals, not the tune information. We hope to soon start to update some of the 5,000 hymnals, such as these, which were added from the Dictionary of North American Hymnology.
Both "Eureka Highway Songs" and "Eureka Sacred Banner" are held by the Southwestern Baptist Theological Library in Texas. "Eureka Highways Songs" is also held by two other libraries. You may be able to interloan these through your local library or the library may be willing to check their copies to verify if one of these hymnals may be the hymnal you're looking for.
We would love to have any bio information you have on H. S. Nance.
Thank you for the info!
First of all, thank you for letting me know where the hymnals are - that's a step in the right direction. I can run it through WorldCat to see who all has them and ILL or check the copies. Mine are not the greatest copies in the world.
My original guess that these are from a different hymnal was because the "All the Way," aka "Jesus Christ Our Loving Saviour" is the only one of the titles I've found on here. None of the rest have shown up in my searches of the Hymnary thus far.
As for bio info, here's what I've got:
Born January 24, 1875, in Arkansas. After the death of his father in 1878, his mother moved the family to Missouri to be with her family. He would later return to Arkansas, where he married his wife, Edna, in 1899. They would later move to Oklahoma, and then to California. He died October 4, 1956. He's listed in all the census records I've found as a farmer, but, from family stories, he was also a minister. I'd have to sit down and ask more questions of the family to sort out where I'd find records to back that up.
One of the hymns I have is dedicated to his family, particularly his sister, Belle, who died rather young.
Hope that's useful - and I hope I can sort out where the rest of these hymns came from...
8)
Kim
Edited to add: Searching again tonight, I've found another one