Youngest son of James La­fay­ette and Ma­ry Da­vis Till­man, Charles worked with his fa­ther, a preach­er, in evan­gel­ism, as well as paint­ing hous­es, work­ing as a tra­vel­ing sales­man for a mu­sic com­pa­ny out of Ra­leigh, North Car­o­li­na, and sang on a tra­vel­ing wa­gon ad­ver­tis­ing Wiz­ard Oil. He be­gan his ca­reer in 1887 as a sing­ing evan­gel­ist. He formed his own mu­sic pub­lish­ing house in At­lan­ta, Georg­ia, and put out 20 Gos­pel song col­lect­ions. At one time, he was song lead­er at the In­di­an Spring Ho­li­ness Camp Meet­ing in Flo­vil­la, Georg­ia. He was the first to pub­lish the spir­it­u­al Old-Time Re­li­gion, which he heard blacks sing­ing at a camp meet­ing in Lex­ing­ton, South Car­o­lina. His works in­clude:

• The Re­viv­al (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Char­lie D. Till­man, 1890)
• The Re­viv­al No. 1 (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Char­lie D. Till­man, 1890)
• The Re­viv­al No. 2 (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Char­lie D. Till­man, 1896)
• The Re­viv­al No. 3, 1899
• The Re­viv­al No. 4, 1903
• Sunday School and Re­viv­al (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Char­lie D. Till­man, 1907)
• The Re­viv­al No. 6 (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Char­lie D. Till­man, 1910)

• Emurian, pp. 81-83
• Hall, pp. 381-82
• Reynolds, p. 423
• Reynolds, p. 444
• Stamps, p. 5

1. Diamonds in the Rough
2. Farther On
3. Glorious Church
4. Hallelujah!

1. Get Ac­quaint­ed with Je­sus
2. Life’s Rail­way to Hea­ven
3. My Mo­ther’s Bi­ble
4. Old Time Pow­er
5. Ready
6. Save One Soul for Je­sus
7. Since He Came to Stay
8. Spirit Is Call­ing, The
9. Unanswered Yet
10. They Were in an Up­per Cham­ber
11. When I Get to the End of the Way