Anna’s fa­ther was Hen­ry War­ner, a wealthy New York C­ity law­yer. When he lost most of his for­tune in the 1837 de­press­ion, the fam­i­ly was forced to move to their sum­mer home (Good Craig) on Con­sti­tu­tion Island in the Hud­son Riv­er. It was then that Anna and her sis­ter Su­san be­gan writ­ing to earn mon­ey. They al­so con­duct­ed Bi­ble class­es for ca­dets at the near­by Mil­i­tary Acad­e­my at West Point. In mem­o­ry of her, the Acad­e­my’s Con­sti­tu­tion Is­land Asso­ci­a­tion man­ag­es the War­ner’s is­land prop­er­ty as an his­tor­ic site. An­na’s works in­clude:

• The Law and the Tes­ti­mo­ny
• Dollars and Cents (the sto­ry of her fam­i­ly’s fi­nan­cial tri­als)
• Gardening by My­self
• Hymns of the Church Mil­i­tant, 1858
• Wayfaring Hymns, Orig­in­al and Trans­lat­ed, 1869
• Susan War­ner, 1909 (a bi­og­ra­phy of her sis­ter)

Sources

Hymns

1. Jesus Loves Me
2. O Little Child, Lie Still and Sleep
3. One More Day’s Work for Je­sus
4. We Would See Je­sus
5. World Looks Very Beau­ti­ful, The