Introduction

Biography

Hamp was the son of Pli­ny Isaac Sew­ell and Ma­ry An­nie Lee, and hus­band of Eli­za­beth Myr­tice Bet­tie Grif­fin.

He stu­died mu­sic with An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter and, af­ter work­ing as a mer­chant and farm­er, was an ev­an­gel­is­tic sing­er with Rev. Charles Dun­a­way, start­ing in 1909.

He worked in the ev­an­gel­ism field through­out the south­ern United States for ov­er 25 years, and wrote some 500 songs.

Works

• Hymns of Glo­ry (At­lan­ta, Geor­gia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1909)
• Hymns of Glo­ry No. 2 (At­lan­ta, Geor­gia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1914)
• World Re­viv­al Hymns (At­lan­ta, Geor­gia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1918)
• The Ex­cell Hym­nal, with Ed­win Ex­cell & W. E. M. Hack­le­man (Chicago, Il­li­nois: E. O. Ex­cell, 1925)