Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Grave

From the Cemetery:

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851-1920), Section I, Lot #89-90
Eliza Hewitt was a songwriter who penned numerous Christian hymns. As a young woman, Hewitt taught at a Philadelphia public school, but after becoming ill with a spinal condition, she was confined to her bed. As her health improved, she began to write lyrics to songs, including “Sunshine in My Soul” and “Stepping in the Light,” and she collaborated with several well-known composers such as John R. Sweney, William J. Kirkpatrick, and B.D. Ackley. Hewitt wrote over 150 hymns throughout her life.

From Wikipedia:

Born on June 28, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was the daughter of sea Capt. James Stratton Hewitt and his wife Zeruiah Stites Edmunds.^[4] She completed her school education at the Girls’ Normal School in Philadelphia where she graduated as a valedictorian of her class.^[5] She later started teaching at the Northern Home for Friendless Children, but her professional career was cut short by a serious spinal problem, in 1887, caused by a student who struck her across the back with a heavy slate for being disciplined.^[6][7] As a result, she was put in a heavy cast for six months. Though she partially recovered, she remained an invalid for an extended period of her life. During her prolonged convalescence, she studied English literature and started writing poems for the primary department of her church. She soon became a prolific writer of children’s verses.^[5]

Hymns:

More About Jesus

1 More about Jesus would I know,
more of His grace to others show;
more of His saving fullness see,
more of His love who died for me.

Refrain:
More, more about Jesus;
more, more about Jesus;
more of His saving fullness see,
more of His love who died for me.

Sunshine in My Soul

1 There is sunshine in my soul today,
More glorious and bright
Than glows in any earthly sky,
For Jesus is my light.

Refrain:
O there’s sunshine, blessed sunshine,
When the peaceful happy moments roll:
When Jesus shows His smiling face,
There is sunshine in the soul.

When We All Get to Heaven

1 Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace;
In the mansions bright and blessed
He’ll prepare for us a place.

Refrain:
When we all get to heaven,
what a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
we’ll sing and shout the victory!

Stepping in the Light

1 Trying to walk in the steps of the Savior,
Trying to follow our Savior and King,
Shaping our lives by His blessed example,
Happy, how happy, the songs that we bring.

Refrain:
How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior,
Stepping in the light,
Stepping in the light;
How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior,
Led in paths of light.

Hymns by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt in Great Hymns of the Faith:

#313 – Stepping in the Light
#326 – More About Jesus
#366 – Give Me Thy Heart
#462 – Sunshine in My Soul
#498 – When We All Get to Heaven

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Image Source/Credit (in order):
• A. J Showalter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Newspapers.com, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 25, 1920 (www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/191746299/)