Annie Sherwood Hawks

Life

Born: 28 May 1835

Died: 3 January 1918

Hawks’ po­ems first be­gan ap­pear­ing in news­pa­pers when she was 14 years old. She mar­ried Charles H. Hawks in 1857. They lived in Brook­lyn, New York, and at­tend­ed the Han­son Place Bap­tist Church, where Rob­ert Low­ry was pas­tor. When her hus­band died in 1888, she moved to Ben­ning­ton, Ver­mont to live with her daugh­ter and son-in-law (W. E. Put­nam). She wrote 400 hymns in her life, most­ly for use in Sun­day schools. (from cyberhymnal.org)

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Settings of text by Annie Sherwood Hawks

• I need thee every hour (Darrell Crowther)
• I need thee every hour (Robert Lowry)

External links

Cyber hymnal

Berean bible heritage