Jennie E. Hussey

HUSSEY, Jennie Evelyn. b. Henniker, New Hampshire, 8 February 1874; d. Concord, New Hampshire, 5 September 1958. For most of her life she lived on a New Hampshire farm belonging to her fourth-generation Quaker family, where for most of her adult life she cared for her invalid sister. During this time-devouring and strength-testing task, she wrote many poems, including 150 hymns, of which the best known is ‘King of my life, I crown thee now’*, with its plangent refrain: Lest I forget Gethsemane;Lest I forget Thine agony;Lest I forget Thy love to me,   Lead me to...