Alexander Percy. Florence Finch Kelly lauded the book in a review for the New York Times, praising the writing and the illustrations. Death The morning of September 24, 1928, Speakman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Bellevue Hospital. Harold's step-brother Philip told the New York Times that Speakman had been in ill health for six months and “threatened several times to take his own life.” Speakman's body was cremated and the ashes are buried in Topeka, Kansas and in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alongside his mother Virginia and his step-father William D. Reed. Frances remained in Manhattan, employed by the WPA as a mural painter until moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1950s to live near her sister. She died in 1988 and is buried in Topeka. Publications Author Silent Night: A Song of Christmas. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1914. Reprint by Abingdon Press, 1927. I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1915. The First Easter. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1917. The Youngest Shepherd: A Poem of Bethlehem. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1917. Songs of Hope. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917. From a Soldier’s Heart. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1919. Beyond Shanghai. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1922. Hilltops in Galilee. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1923. This Above All. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1924. Here’s Ireland. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. Mostly Mississippi. New York: Arrowsmith, 1927. Republished by University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Once at Christmas. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1928. Illustrator The First Christmas. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1915. The Forest Filled with Friends, by Raymond Macdonald Alden. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go, by George Matheson. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1915. The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, by Helen Rowland. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1915. Gifts From the Desert, by Frederick B. Fisher. New York, Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1916. What the Stars Saw, and Other Bible Stories, by Caroline Kellogg. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1916. A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, by Helen Rowland. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1922. Stories From the Life of Jesus, Told for Little Children, by Caroline Kellogg. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. The Story of Methodism, by Halford Luccock and Paul Hutchinson. New York, Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1926.