- Jingle Bells Historical
Marker
- Located across from Troup Square, Habersham and Macon
Sts., Savannah
- 32°04.232, 081°05.802
"JINGLE BELLS"
James L. Pierpont (1822-1893), composer
of "Jingle Bells", served as music director of this
church in the 1850s when it was a Unitarian Church located on
Oglethorpe Square. Son of the noted Boston reformer, Rev. John
Pierpont, he was the brother of Rev. John Pierpont, Jr. minister
of this church, and uncle of financier John Pierpont Morgan.
He married Eliza Jane Purse, daughter of Savannah mayor Thomas
Purse, and served with a Confederate cavalry regiment. He is
buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery. A prolific song-writer, his
best known "Jingle Bells" is world famous.
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