1885–1987

Introduction

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Born: June 3, 1885, Swan, Tex­as.

Died: Au­gust 17, 1987, Gun­ter, Tex­as.

Buried: For­est Park Ce­me­te­ry, Green­ville, Tex­as.

Biography

Tillit was the son of Theo­dore Fre­ling­huy­sen Ted­dlie and Sar­ah Ann Por­ter. He mar­ried twice, to Na­omi Sis­co-Wes­ton (1961) and Ed­na Pearl Webb.

Teddlie came from a fa­mi­ly of mu­si­cians. He was es­pe­cial­ly in­spired by Frank­lin Eiland, and stu­died at North Texas State Uni­ver­si­ty (now the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Tex­as, De­nton) with his old­est bro­ther, James Ted­dlie, A. H. Cook, and Dr. Her­bert.

He be­gan song writ­ing around age 20, but his career of mu­sic ev­an­gel­ism be­gan in ear­nest in 1917. He wrote about 100 songs in his life­time, and was an ac­tive sing­ing teach­er and pub­lish­er.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Angels Are Sing­ing
  2. Cast All Your Bur­dens on the Lord
  3. Don’t Wait Too Long
  4. God Sent His Own Son
  5. Hear Me When I Call
  6. Heaven Holds All to Me
  7. I Have Wait­ed Too Long to Pre­pare
  8. I Re­mem­ber Je­sus
  9. In Hea­ven They’re Sing­ing
  10. In the Ser­vice of My King!
  11. Into Our Hands the Gos­pel Is Giv­en
  12. Joyful Song, A
  13. Master’s Touch, The
  14. May This My Glo­ry Be
  15. O God of In­fi­nite Mer­cy
  16. O the Depths and the Rich­es
  17. Oft We Come To­ge­ther
  18. Round the Hills in Ga­li­lee
  19. Safe in the Har­bor
  20. Singing Re­demp­tion’s Song
  21. Songs of Sal­va­tion
  22. Thou Wilt Keep Him
  23. Time Enough Yet
  24. True Wor­ship
  25. We Shall Meet Some­day
  26. What Will Your An­swer Be?
  27. When We Meet in Sweet Com­mun­ion
  28. Worthy Art Thou
  29. You Can Lead Some­one to Je­sus

Music

  1. Into Our Hands