Lillian Tait Sheldon

Lillian Alison Tait Sheldon (10 September 1865 - 10 January 1925)^[1] was an American composer^[2] and organist^[3] who composed many hymns.^[4]

Sheldon was born in Gouverneur, New York^[5][6] to Lucretia Maria and George Peter Tait. She married James Otis Sheldon and they had two children.^[7] Little is known about Sheldon's education. She was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Gouverneur from 1885 until her death in 1925.^[8] Although most of her compositions were hymns, her “Rock-a-By Baby Lullaby” was published in the January 1897 edition of Ladies Home Journal.^[9]

Sheldon's music was also published by B.F. Woods Music Co.,^[10] J. Fischer & Brother,^[11] and Oliver Ditson Co.^[12] Her compositions, all for voice and piano, included:

• “Around the Great White Throne”^[13]
• “He Knows”^[14]
• “Hear, Forgive and Save” (text by Eliza Morris)^[15][16]
• “Hosanna We Sing” (text by Rev George S. Hodges)^[17]
• “Jesus, Shepherd of the Sheep” (text by Henry Book)^[18]
• “Lord, Within Thy Temple Fair”^[19]
• “More Love to Thee, O Christ”^[12]
• “Rest”^[12]
• “Resurrection”^[10]
• “Rock-a-By Baby Lullaby” (text adapted from Charles Fremont Gale)^[9]
• “Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand^[20]
• “Through Peace to Light”^[11]