1877–1967

Introduction

Born: Ap­ril 26, 1877, Ar­gen­tine, Mi­chi­gan.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 3, 1967, Law­rence­burg, Ten­nes­see.

Buried: Cal­va­ry Ce­me­te­ry, Law­rence­burg, Ten­nes­see.

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Biography

Grimes was the child of Ste­phen Ath­er­ton and Ada Potter, and wife of broom mak­er El­liot Grant Grimes (mar­ried 1900, Ver­non, Mi­chi­gan).

She be­came a writ­er at an ear­ly age, and worked as an ed­it­or for the South­ern Ag­ri­cul­tur­ist ma­ga­zine in Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see.

In ad­di­tion to writ­ing, she was an ac­comp­lished pia­nist and a mu­sic teach­er. In 1920, she and her son Le­on worked for Dr. Will­iam Fewkes of the Smith­so­ni­an In­sti­tute, ex­plor­ing the Ana­sa­zi In­di­an ru­ins at Me­sa Ver­de, Co­lo­ra­do.

In lat­er years, she formed her own bu­si­ness, Writ­er’s Aid, where­by she took writ­ers’ ma­nu­scripts and cor­rect­ed and pre­pared them for sub­mis­sion for pub­li­ca­tion.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Christ a Wond­rous Work Has Giv­en You
  2. Go Ca­rry His Love to the Hearts of Men
  3. God Made a Gar­den to Rest
  4. He Hath Gi­ven Us the Word
  5. I Can Look Across the Val­ley of the Sha­dow
  6. I Do Not Know How Je­sus Came to Set My Life Apart
  7. I Know the Lord Has Mer­cy
  8. I Want to Live That I May Learn
  9. In Hea­ven There Dwells a Migh­ty King
  10. Little While to Watch, and Wait, and Won­der, A
  11. Live in Sun­shine
  12. Once a Tem­pest Was Rag­ing on Ga­li­lee
  13. One Day at a Time God Gives Us the Year
  14. Sounds of Bat­tle Ring up­on the Air
  15. Spend One Hour with Je­sus
  16. Steady and True
  17. Teach Me Thy Will, O Lord
  18. There Is Shel­ter at the Cross
  19. This World Is Not a Place for Gloom
  20. We Are Her­alds of the Mas­ter
  21. When Waves of Sin Had Drift­ed Me
  22. With Ar­mor Bright
  23. Wondrous Their Mys­te­ry