1918–1977

Introduction

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Born: March 31, 1918, Har­ris­on, Ar­kan­sas.

Died: No­vem­ber 24, 1977, Boone Coun­ty, Ar­kan­sas.

Buried: Grubb Springs Ce­me­te­ry, Har­ris­on, Ar­kan­sas.

Biography

Terry was the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Pil­low, and hus­band of Ju­lia Zur­ga (mar­ried 1939).

At age three, he was in­jured in a fall which dam­aged his spine.

He first heard Gos­pel mu­sic when Eu­gene Bartlett and a quar­tet ar­rived in Har­ris­on from Dal­las, Tex­as. This con­tact with Bart­lett, and with Al­bert Brum­ley, in­flu­enced Pil­low to go in­to the Gos­pel mu­sic field.

Pillow had his first pi­ano les­sons with Al­bert Brum­ley. He lat­er at­tend­ed five nor­mals run by the Stamps-Bax­ter Com­pa­ny in Dallas, stu­dy­ing un­der Jes­se R. Bax­ter, Vir­gil O. Stamps, George T. Speer, James H. Rue­bush, Tho­mas J. Far­ris, Joe Rop­er, Chris­to­pher C. Staf­ford and oth­ers.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. As We Tra­vel This Life
  2. Bible Is Tell­ing of Praise, The
  3. Bible Tells a Sto­ry, The
  4. Footprints in the Sands of Time
  5. Here Each Day We Dai­ly Tra­vel
  6. How Can They Say There Is No God?
  7. I Am So Hap­py, Glad and Free
  8. I Have a Hap­py Feel­ing Away Down in My Soul
  9. I Have a Re­fuge
  10. I Have Tra­veled On Life’s Path­way
  11. If I Should Cross the Mys­tic Foam
  12. I’m Sail­ing On the Way to Hea­ven Above
  13. I’ve Got­ta Lot of Hea­ven in My Soul
  14. I’ve Ma­ny Dear Friends with Sil­very Hair
  15. Lonely, Lone­ly, Lone­ly for My King
  16. Lord Was with Me, The
  17. Mercy, Not Jus­tice
  18. Once I Wan­dered Alone
  19. Only God
  20. Since I Gave Je­sus Full Control
  21. Some Day This Life Will All Be Ov­er
  22. Some of These Days
  23. Somebody Knows When Cross­es I’m Bear­ing
  24. Somewhere Be­yond the Sett­ing Sun
  25. There Are Me­mo­ries That Lin­ger
  26. There Is a Land Out Yon­der Some­where
  27. There Is Work That You Can Do
  28. There’s a Sto­ry Told That Will Nev­er Grow Old
  29. Through This Lone­some World I Roam
  30. ’Tis a Hea­vy Load That I Am Bear­ing
  31. We Read About a Man Named Th­omas
  32. When Shall Come Love’s Bright To­mor­row
  33. When the Clouds of Doubt
  34. When Your Bur­dens Seem to Grow So Hea­vy