Cir­ca 1865, Ca­naan, New York.

Af­ter 1920, prob­ab­ly South­amp­ton, New York.

Pierson ap­pears to have been a pri­ma­ry school teach­er, and pro­duced po­ems, plays, and se­cu­lar songs. Her hymns be­gan ap­pear­ing in 1905, when she was about 40 years old. Her works in­clude:

• The Ma­gic Charm; a Play­ette (Dans­ville, New York: F. A. Ow­en Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1907)
• Six Bi­ble Plays for Gram­mar Grades, with Ma­bel Hobbs & Hel­en Miles (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: W. H. Bak­er & Com­pa­ny, 1924)

1. All is For­giv­en
2. All the Way Home
3. Beautiful Threads of Gold
4. Blessed Old Book, The
5. Bugle Call, The
6. Christ the Light
7. Christian’s Hope, The
8. Give Je­sus the Best
9. Hand That Was Nailed to the Cross, The
10. He Is Car­ing for Me
11. He is Knock­ing
12. Heavenly Home, The
13. Lift Up Your Heads!
14. Lift Your Neigh­bor’s Bur­den
15. Love is the Great­est of All
16. No Sha­dows Yon­der
17. O Pre­cious Seal of Love!
18. O ’Twas Love
19. One Soul Re­deemed
20. Onward, Up­ward!
21. Open Wide Thy Heart
22. There’s a Shout in My Heart
23. Victor’s Crown, The
24. When the Sha­dows Are Clos­ing In