Julia A. Carney

CARNEY, Julia Abigail (née Fletcher). b. Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 6 April 1823; d. Galesburg, Illinois, 1 November 1908. She was educated at Lancaster, and became a schoolteacher in Boston. She wrote for periodicals from an early age. She married Thomas J. Carney (1819-1871), a Universalist minister, in 1849. She wrote many hymns, two of which were well known at one time: ‘Think gently of the erring one’*, and ‘Little drops of water’*. The former is one of three hymns by ‘Miss Fletcher’ in the ‘Philanthropic Subjects' section of Hymns for Christian Devotion, a Universalist publication edited by John Greenleaf Adams and Edwin Hubbell Chapin (Boston, Mass., 1845, enlarged...