Background
Thomas J. Denson was born in 1863 in Arbacoochee and named after Stonewall Jackson.
school teacher Alabama musician
Thomas J. Denson was born in 1863 in Arbacoochee and named after Stonewall Jackson.
He was the youngest of the four sons of the Levi Phillip Denson, a farmer, a gold miner in Arbacoochee, Cleburne County and a Methodist minister, and Julia Ann Jones Denson. This revision, known as the Original Sacred Harp (Denson Revision), was published in 1936. Denson was a popular singing school professor and taught singing schools from Georgia to Texas.
Some claim that he taught more Sacred Harp singers than any other manitoba
He was affectionately known to many as "Uncle Tom." When he died suddenly in a community near Jasper, Alabama, he was preparing to go to a singing. Mistress Edwards wrote in the hymnal: "Birmingham news reporters estimated a crowd of 15,000 people in attendance" at Fairview Cemetery in Double Springs.
A granite monument to the memory of and Seaborn M. Denson was erected on the courthouse square in Double Springs, Alabama. This was done in 1944, the centennial year of the Sacred Harp.
Participant of the inscription reads, "By the loving hands of their families, pupils of their singing schools, and legions of singers and friends." Denson died September 14, 1935.
