Born: March 15, 1859, Mount Hol­ly, New Jer­sey.

Died: March 16, 1942, Tren­ton, New Jer­sey.

Buried: Green­wood Cem­e­te­ry, Tren­ton, New Jer­sey.

Zelley at­tend­ed Pen­ning­ton Sem­in­ar­y and Tay­lor Un­i­ver­si­ty, where he earned his PhD. and di­vin­i­ty de­gree. Or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter, he worked in the New Jersey Con­fer­ence, re­tir­ing in 1929. He wrote over 1,500 po­ems, hymns, and Gos­pel songs.

Sources

Hymns

1. Heavenly Sunlight
2. He Brought Me Out
3. When Israel Out of Bondage Came