{{Short description|Dutch hymnwriter and Salvation Army officer}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata |fetchwikidata=ALL |dateformat=mdy }}{{The Salvation Army}}
'''Cornelie Ida Ernestine Schoch Booth''' (October 13, 1864 – May 31, 1920) was a Dutch hymnwriter and Salvation Army officer. She was the wife of Herbert Booth, son of the founders of the Salvation Army.
Cornelie Schoch was born on October 13, 1864 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, the daughter of Carl Ferdinand Schoch, a Dutch colonel who previously served in the Swiss Army, and Henriette Cornelia Wilhelmina de Ravallet, the daughter of French Huguenots.<ref>https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/111841430</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ottman |first=Ford Cyrinde |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nq5kAAAAMAAJ |title=Herbert Booth: A Biography |date=1928 |publisher=Doubleday, Doran & Company |language=en}}</ref> On September 18, 1890 at Clapton, she married Herbert Booth.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Howe |first=Renate |title=Herbert Henry Booth (1862–1926) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/booth-herbert-henry-5290 |access-date=2024-06-18 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref> She accompanied and assisted Herbert Booth at his postings as a Salvation Army commandant in Canada from 1892 to 1895 and Australia from 1895 to 1901. They resigned from the Army in 1902.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Howe |first=Renate |date=December 1970 |title='Five Conquering Years'. The Leadership of Commandant and Mrs H. Booth of the Salvation Army in Victoria, 1896 to 1901 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9809.1970.tb00560.x |journal=Journal of Religious History |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=177–197 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9809.1970.tb00560.x |issn=0022-4227|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Cornelie Booth wrote a number of hymns, including "A Perfect Trust" and "Have You Heard the Angels Singing?", which appeared in the ''Song Book of the Salvation Army.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Claghorn |first=Charles Eugene |url=http://archive.org/details/womencomposershy00clag |title=Women composers and hymnists : a concise biographical dictionary |date=1984 |publisher=Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8108-1680-0}}</ref>
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