Grace Walls Linn
American composer and organist
About Grace Walls Linn
Grace Walls Linn Sandy (3 August 1874 – 31 August 1940) was a ragtime composer and organist. The National Spiritualist Association of Churches made one of her compositions its official song. She published under the name Grace Walls Linn.
Life and career Linn was born in Greencastle, Indiana, to Sarah Frances Alspaugh and Charles Edward Walls. She was a direct descendant of the family of Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII of England. She married Edward Martin Linn in 1899. After he died in 1918, she married James Albert Sandy. Linn had one daughter, Gretchen. Little is known about her education.
Selected works Piano Automobile Spin ''Dancing Shadows Gavotte “You Has Still Got Me” (text traditional)
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