What Is Home Without a Mother?

DESCRIPTION: "What is home without a mother? Oft we miss her loving face... None can fill a mother's place." Friends may try to help, but they cannot. Some may not realize they will miss her, but they will
AUTHOR: "Alice Hawthorne" (Septimus Winner) (source: sheet music; also hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1879 (de Marsan broadside)
KEYWORDS: mother death
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, William I. Schreiber, "The Obituaries of the Sugarcreek Budget," Volume 5, Number 4 (Winter 1955), p. 226, "(What is a home (without) a mother)"; "(What is a home with a father)" (2 short texts)
Roud #38001
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4109), "What Is Home Without a Mother?" Jones (Sheffield), n.d.; also Harding B 18(516), "What Is Home Without a Mother?" Charles Magnus (New York), c. 1860
Library of Congress, Series 4 Sheet 4, "What Is Home Without a Mother?" H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
NOTES [13 words]: For more on Septimus Winner, see the notes to "Listen to the Mockingbird." - RBW
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