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Longtime SBTS music professor McElrath dies in Florida
May 15, 2008
By Garrett E. Wishall

Hugh T. McElrath

Hugh T. McElrath, longtime music professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died May 8 at his winter home in Penney Farms, Fla. McElrath was 86.

McElrath retired from Southern in 1992 as the V.V. Cooke Professor of Church Music, having served at the seminary since 1948 when he began as a voice instructor. After retiring, McElrath continued teaching hymnology classes through 1998.
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