| Tillit Sidney Teddlie |
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| 1885 births | |
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| 1987 deaths | |
| people from tyler, texas | |
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Teddlie was born June 3, 1885 at Swan, Texas ( Smith County ), the son of Theodore and Sarah Ann (Porter) Teddlie. In 1903 he was baptized into the Church of Christ, and also taught his first singing school, which lasted for two weeks. He composed his first song in 1906. Tillit S. Teddlie married Edna Webb. They had one son, Pete Teddlie. Teddlie died August 17, 1987 in Gunter, Texas . He was 102 years old. He is buried in the Forest Park Cemetery at Greenville, Texas. During his lifetime, Teddlie taught singing schools for 61 years, composed 130 songs, published 14 song books, and served as a full-time minister, including the Johnson Street Church of Christ (1945-1951) and Central Church of Christ in Greenville, Texas , and Churches of Christ in Ennis , Sulphur Springs , Lone Oak and Quinlan . Titles of some of Teddlie's songs
Heaven Holds All to Me Teddlie was a member of and ministered in the churches of Christ, but many of his songs reached popular circulation among Christians of other denominations, especially through the Stamps-Baxter Music Company. Two of his best known are "What Will Your Answer Be?" (1935) and "Heaven Holds All to Me" (1932). :"Earth holds no treasures :But perish with using, :However precious they be; :Yet there's a country :To which I am going: :Heaven holds all to me." External links
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