1880–1927

Born: Au­gust 16, 1880, Bland County, Vir­gin­ia.

Died: Jan­ua­ry 16, 1927, St. Luke’s Hos­pi­tal, Bluefield, West Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Ea­gle Fa­mi­ly Cemetery, Burke’s Garden, Vir­gin­ia.

Biography

Herschel was the son of Hen­der­son Pa­tric Ea­gle and Ma­ria Lou­ise (Min­nie) Max­well, and hus­band of Ed­ward Loyd Hub­bard (spell­ing per mar­riage li­cense and cer­ti­fi­cate)

For a while, Ea­gle was a sing­ing teach­er at An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter’s Sou­thern Nor­mal In­sti­tute.

Copyright re­cords in­di­cate Ea­gle was in Dal­ton, Geor­gia, in 1908. From 1914 to at least 1925, he was liv­ing in Burke’s Gar­den, Vir­gin­ia.

In 1918, he was a mem­ber of the Big Quar­tet, which per­formed and pro­mot­ed songs for Sho­wal­ter’s mu­sic pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny.

Works

Sources

Music

  1. After We Have Crossed the Bar
  2. Army of Je­ho­vah, The
  3. Awake, Ye Saints
  4. Bear Me Up, An­gels
  5. Beyond the Bor­der-Line
  6. Blessèd Way, The
  7. Call of the King, The
  8. Christ, the Glo­ri­ous, Reigns
  9. Crossing the Ri­ver
  10. Gathered Home
  11. Give Your Heart to Je­sus
  12. God’s Mes­sage to Man
  13. Hail the World’s Re­deem­er
  14. He Holds the Key
  15. Heaven is My Home
  16. Home Past the Stars
  17. Honor the King with Praise
  18. I Want to Go to Glo­ry
  19. I Will Look un­to the Hills
  20. I’m Go­ing Home
  21. If You Keep Your Heart Sing­ing
  22. If You Knew Him as I Know Him
  23. In God’s Great Son Re­joic­ing
  24. Just ov­er the Ri­ver
  25. Keep Sing­ing All the Way
  26. Little So­ldiers
  27. Looking to Thee
  28. Love That Guides Us Home, The
  29. My Mo­ther’s Hand is On My Head
  30. Nearing the Gates
  31. O to Be Filled with the Spi­rit
  32. Oh, Mag­ni­fy His Name
  33. One More Day
  34. Over in the Glo­ry Land
  35. Over the Hills
  36. Over There
  37. Praise the Name of the Lord
  38. Singing His Love
  39. Singing in Hea­ven
  40. Song Tri­um­phant, The
  41. Tell It Once More
  42. There’ll Be Sing­ing
  43. Thou Hast Gone to Yon­der Ci­ty
  44. Till the Dawn­ing of the Morn­ing
  45. True Conqueror, The
  46. Trusting and Cling­ing
  47. We Shall Win
  48. When the An­gels Come for Me
  49. When the Spi­rit Came In
  50. Will It Be You?

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