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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 11/29/06, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:
>  Steven Foster was a 19th century composer of songs, generally now considered 
> folk songs.   Camptown Races, Oh Susanna, Old Black Joe, the Old Folks of 
> Home, and many others.   He died at a young age.


I was just tweaking Van Dell because he spelled it "Steven Foster."
It was actually Stephen Foster: http://www.pdmusic.org/foster.html

He was just a tad when he died before he reached age 40 in 1864.

Marie, no longer a tad