The Hymn Found in the Hollow: Who Buried Erin Green?
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The Hymn Found in the Hollow: Who Buried Erin Green?
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A dry sheet of handwritten hymn music was found inside a split tulip poplar on a West Virginia trail - preserved though the tree had been open to the sky - with the name Erin Green penciled at the top. The hymn had been sung at Erin's funeral four days after her sudden death, but who placed that score in the tree and why was the final line rewritten decades earlier to change its meaning from silence to speaking clearly?
In this episode, we follow the documentary thread that ties a local funeral, a private hymn called "Pale and Gentle," and a decades-old family revision that rewords the hymn's ending; the episode lays out the discoveries - from the paper's preservation to the archivist's ink analysis - and asks whether the hymn was meant to bury a secret or to surface one.
Person: Erin Green
Date: born 1979
Location: Pallwick, West Virginia
Event: funeral at Grace Fellowship on Depot Street
Author: Dorothy Clayborn (identified as the hand that revised the hymn)
- The tulip poplar lay across the Frank Fisher Trail for three weeks after a late-August storm before the sheet music was discovered.
- Erin Green died four days before the hymn was found and was thirty-one years old at her death.
- Erin had missed choir only once in six years - January 2009 - and worked seven years at the county clinic after returning to Pallwick in 2004.
- The county archivist found the main body of the score inked in a brown-black ink estimated 80-110 years old, while the final four measures used a blue-black ink dated to the 1940s-1950s.
- Handwriting comparison from Grace Fellowship archives pointed to Dorothy Clayborn as the person who altered the hymn's final measures.
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