Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
(1805-1848)

Died aged c. 43

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (or Sally Adams) (22 February 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet and hymnwriter. A selection of hymns she wrote, published by William Johnson Fox, included her best-known one, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", reportedly played by the band as the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.

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Sarah Flower Adams 1805-1848 authoress of the hymn "Nearer my God to Thee" was born here

1-3 London Road, Old Harlow (High Street elevation), Harlow, United Kingdom where they was born (1805)

In this house lived William Bridges Adams (1797-1872) Inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower (1805-1848) Hymnodist and poet

9 Woodbury Hill, Loughton, United Kingdom where they was