Septimus Winner was the composer of several catchy songs you sang as a child or have sung with your children
William Kirkpatrick was a hymn writer whose Christmas carol you have been singing all your life
Brenda Payton was lead singer for the R&B group Brenda and the Tabulations
Phebe Blessington was an up-and-coming singer-songwriter who was killed in an auto accident shortly after her 30th birthday
Singer / songwriter / A&R man Richie Barrett’s final services and cremation were at Laurel Hill West, although he is not buried there.
And yes, I will play you samples of their work, and a lot more. Get ready for ear worms galore on this month's episode of "All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
ABC #019: The Other Side of Paradise - Sigourney Fay, Hobey Baker, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Connection
ABC #018: The Calder Connection - Alexander Milne & Alexander Stirling, The Warner Plot, and Henry Charles Lea
ABC #017: Fathers of American Medicine, Part 1
ABC #016: Curtis Publishing Company and The Saturday Evening Post
ABC #014: On with the Show! - Edward Fry, Adam Forepaugh, and J. Fred Zimmerman
ABC #015: Quarantine Special: She’s Not There - Florence Leontine Lowe (“Pancho” Barnes), Ethel Huhn “Bobo” Bailey, and Princess Olga Demidoff Troubetzskoy Stoever
ABC #013: On the Tube - Dave Garroway, Anne Francine, Edie Huggins, and Sheela Allen-Stephens
ABC #012: A Night at the Opera: Giuseppe del Puente, Eleanor Mayo, Camille d’Elmar, David Bispham, and Robert Carson
ABC #011: She Invented What?! - Martha Coston, Rachel Holloway Lloyd, and Mary Engle Pennington
ABC #010: FOAL - Friends of Abraham Lincoln: John and Ulric Dahlgren, Rev Matthew Simpson
ABC #009: The Attorneys General: Richard Rush, Henry Gilpin, and Seven State AGs
ABC #008: The Lady Artists: Alice Barber Stephens, Cecilia Beaux, and Harriet Frishmuth
ABC #007: Play Ball!! Harry Wright, Benjamin Shibe and Al Reach, Harry Kalas
ABC #006: Fathers and Sons: Thomas and Albert Sully; Robert and Francis Patterson; Peter, George, and Harry Widener
ABC #005: Building Philadelphia: John Notman, Napoleon LeBrun, Frank Furness, and Horace Trumbauer
ABC #004: Holidays among the Stones: Sarah Josepha Hale, Martha Tillman, Anna Jarvis, and Stephen F. Whitman
ABC #003: Easterners of the Old West: Henry Deringer, Owen Wister, and John B. Stetson
ABC #002: Famed Arctic Explorer + Spiritualist / Con-artist: A Match Made in Heaven
ABC #001: The Origins of Laurel Hill: How and Why Did It Get Here?
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