1877–1975
Sherm Tidwell

Introduction

Born: Ju­ly 1, 1877, Bear Creek, Ala­ba­ma.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 5, 1975, Ma­ri­on, Ala­ba­ma.

Buried: Moun­tain Home Ce­me­te­ry, Bear Creek, Ala­ba­ma.

Biography

Sherman was the son of Si­mon Me­ter Tid­well and Eli­za­beth Jane Ram­sey, and hus­band of Le­la Wood­son How­ard Mull­ins.

He lived in God­dard, Ala­ba­ma, about 10 years, and Bear Creek, Ala­ba­ma, about the same length of time.

In his days, shape note sing­ing schools and sing­ing con­ven­tions were com­mon and po­pu­lar events through­out north­west Ala­ba­ma. Tid­well is re­mem­bered in that re­gion both as a song writ­er and a song lead­er. He al­so con­trib­ut­ed to the Vaugh­an and lat­er the Stamps Bax­ter pub­lish­ers.

Sources

Music

  1. Bear the Light
  2. Childhood, Home and Mo­ther
  3. Coming Back to His Own
  4. Fields Are White, The
  5. He Died for Me, and I’m Re­deemed
  6. He Is Com­ing in the Clouds
  7. He’s Com­ing Again
  8. His Grace Saved Me, Too
  9. How Hap­py I’ll Be
  10. How We’ll Sing on the Oth­er Side
  11. I Shall Awake
  12. I Want to Go There
  13. I’ll Sail Away Home
  14. I’m Go­ing Home to Glo­ry­land
  15. I’m on My Way to My New Home
  16. Jesus Re­deemed My Soul
  17. Keep on Sing­ing
  18. Keep Tra­vel­ing On
  19. Land of Beau­ty, A
  20. Lead Me On to the Rock
  21. Love Will Drive the Clouds Away
  22. Loved Ones in Glo­ry, Sing­ing
  23. None Will Be Stran­gers There
  24. Send the Glad News
  25. Singing in Glo­ry
  26. Tell It Out
  27. There Will Come a Hap­py Home
  28. There’ll Be Shout­ing When He Comes
  29. There’s a Man­sion for Me
  30. We’ll Be Sing­ing ov­er There
  31. We’ll Sing Again
  32. What a Hap­py Time
  33. When the Re­deemed Go March­ing In
  34. When the Roll Is Called in Hea­ven
  35. When We Ga­ther ov­er Yon­der
  36. Which Will It Be?
  37. Will You Meet Me?
  38. Wonderful Love Is Flood­ing My Soul

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Tid­well (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),