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Title	Darling Nelly Gray Sheet Music
Subject	Arts and Entertainment African American Ohioans Literary Ohio Underground Railroad Slavery Music Songs
Place	Westerville (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) Rushville (Ohio) Fairfield County (Ohio) Columbus (Ohio)
Description	The sheet music for Benjamin Russel Hanby's song "Darling Nelly Gray" was published in 1882 as one in a series of World Renowned Plantation Songs. Although they were published separately and are not included here, the cover page lists other songs in the series, "Dearest Mae" "Old Shady" "The Old Folks at Home" and "Lilly Dale." The pages measure 10.5" by 14" (26.67 by 35.56 cm). Composer Benjamin Russel Hanby (1833-1867) was born in the small town of Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio, southeast of Columbus. Hanby's father was a minister with strong abolitionist sympathies and their home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Hanby was by deeply affected by the story of a fugitive slave who took refuge in the Hanby home in 1842 while escaping from Kentucky. Before his death from pneumonia, he told about his sweetheart Nelly Gray, who had been sold into slavery in Georgia. This was the inspiration for the song "Darling Nelly Gray" which Hanby composed in 1856 while attending Otterbein College in Westerville. The song became popular among Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and has often been regarded as the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of song. Hanby also wrote "Santa Claus, or Up on the House Top."
Creator	Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867
Date of Original	1882
Source	Published material
Submitting Institution	Otterbein College
Type	Text

Title	Om1045_1059033_008
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File Name	Om1045_1059033_008.tif
Image Height	5664
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Full Text	>^S m THE eQW' ^ ^ i/ziy o>^^^- DEAREST MAE ^' iMLlMi MIW ieA\Y. flos/vlEE. f//£ Cl^D FOLKS At HO ME. oIe © Publish^ db> boston: Oliver Ditson Company, '"^^^^shinr^' NEW-YORK: C.H.DITSON 8( CO. eS7 BROADWAV CHICAGO,ILL. PHlLADELPHiA : LYON 8< HEALY, J. E. DITSON 8^ CO. COR. STATE % MONROE STS. 1328 CHESTt^lUT ST. BOSTON: JOHN C.HAYNES 8f CO. 33 COURT & 453 WASHINGTON STS. 1

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