1829–1907

Introduction

Born: Ju­ly 21, 1829, Bal­ti­more, Ma­ry­land.

Died: De­cem­ber 5, 1907, Bal­ti­more, Ma­ry­land.

Buried: Green­mount Ce­me­te­ry, Bal­ti­more, Ma­ry­land.

Biography

Owens taught in Bal­ti­more for al­most half a cen­tu­ry, in­clud­ing Sun­day school at the Un­ion Square Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church.

Most of her hymns were writ­ten for her Sun­day school stu­dents. Much of her po­et­ry ap­peared in the Me­tho­dist Pro­test­ant and the Christ­ian Stan­dard.

Sources

Lyrics

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Ow­ens (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),