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William Walker

1809 - 1875 Person Name: Wm. Walker Composer of "THE LONE PILGRIM" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.)

1800 - 1879 Person Name: B. F. W. Author of "The Lone Pilgrim" in Bells of Heaven Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman

John Ellis

1760 - 1839 Author of "I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay" in The Sacred Harp

Henry Fowler

1779 - 1838 Person Name: Fowler Author of "Ye pilgrims of Zion, and chosen of God" in Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book Henry Fowler, hymn-writer, was born at Yealmpton, Devonshire, 11 Dec, 1779. In early life he followed some trade, but occasionally preached in independent meeting-houses in Devonshire and in Bristol. At length in October 1813, he 'received a call' to Birmingham, where he continued until the end of 1819. Ultimately he settled in London, becoming in July 1820 minister of Goer Street Chapel. He died 16 Dec 1838, and was buried on Christmas day morning at the New Bunhill Fields burying-ground at Islington. It has been said that his own frame of mind seemed, in general, rather gloomy; certainly his autobiography, which he called 'Travels in the Wilderness,' (London, 1839) is not cheerful reading In addition to this and numerous religious tracts and biographies, he wrote 'Original Hymns, Doctrinal, Pracitcal and Experimental, with prose reflections,' (London, 1818-1824) and edited 'A Selection of Hymns by various authors,' (London, 1836). From Dictionary of National Biography, Vol XX, Forrest-Garner edited by Leslie Stephen, New York: Macmillan and Co. and London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889