Lelia N. Morris

Leila N. Morris
Born (Maiden name unknown)
(1862-04-15)April 15, 1862
Pennsville, OH
Died July 23, 1929(1929-07-23) (aged 67)
Auburn, NY
Nationality American
Other names Mrs. Charles H. Morris, (Mrs.) C. H. Morris, (Mrs.) C. H. M.
Occupation Hymnwriter
Years active 1890s – 1910s or later

Lelia Naylor Morris (April 15, 1862, Pennsville, Morgan County, OH – July 23, 1929, Auburn, NY) was an American Methodist hymnwriter. Some sources give her first name as Leila, but Lelia seems more likely to be correct.[Note 1] She is sometimes known as Mrs. Charles H. Morris, as (Mrs.) C. H. Morris, or as (Mrs.) C. H. M., having adopted her husband's forenames upon marriage after the custom of the time.

While still a child, she moved with her family to Malta, OH. Later, she and her sister and her mother ran a millinery shop in McConnelsville, OH. In 1881, she married Charles H. Morris. The couple were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and attended camp meetings at places such as Old Camp Sychar, Mount Vernon, OH and Sebring Camp, Sebring, OH. In the 1890s, she began to write hymns and gospel songs; it has been said that she wrote more than 1,000 songs and tunes, and that she did so while doing her housework. In 1913, her eyesight began to fail; her son thereupon constructed for her a blackboard 28 feet (8.5 m) long with oversized staff lines, so that she could continue to compose.

Around 1928, she and her husband moved to live with their daughter in Auburn, NY; where she died. She is buried in McConnelsville Cemetery, McConnelsville, OH.[1][2][3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ A plaque erected to her memory at McConnelsville, OH in 1998 by the Trinity United Methodist Church and the Ohio Historical Society gives her name as Lelia Morris.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lelia Naylor Morris (Mrs. Charles H. Morris) 1862–1929". hymntime.com. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Mrs. C. H. Morris". hymnary.org. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Leila Naylor Morris (Mrs. Charles H. Morris) 1862–1929". nethymnal.org. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
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