Born: Jan­u­a­ry 7, 1875, near At­lan­ta, Georg­ia.

Died: May 11, 1938, Tem­ple, Georg­ia.

Sewell stu­died mu­sic with An­tho­ny Show­al­ter and, af­ter work­ing as a mer­chant and far­mer, served as an evan­gel­is­tic sing­er with Rev. Charles Dun­a­way, start­ing in 1909. He worked in the evan­gel­ism field through­out the south­ern Unit­ed States for over 25 years, and wrote some 500 songs. His works in­clude:

• Hymns of Glory, 1909
• Hymns of Glory No. 2, 1914
• World Re­viv­al Hymns (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1918)

Sources

Music

1. He Included Me
2. I Am the Way
3. In Sin I Once Had Wandered
4. Sweeter as the Days Go By
5. There Is Room in His Heart for You