[2] Less than two years after Lucie's birth, Burrell was killed in a train accident; Isabella moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee.
[3] Ethnomusicologist Luvenia A. George remarked that "this determination to learn to play the piano against all odds was an early example of the dogged spirit she displayed her entire life in meeting the goals she set for herself".
At the organizational meeting of the National Sunday and Baptist Training Union Congress held in Memphis in 1915, "Miss Lucie" was elected as music director.
She penned songs for the Congress and wrote musical pageants exhorting the young to give their lives to Christian service.
The core of "He'll Say Well Done", written in 1933, was covered as "End of My Journey" by various artists over the decades, including The Rebels with Jim Hamill, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, The Famous Davis Sisters of Philadelphia, Delores "Mom" Winans, Ferlin Husky, the duet of Donald Vails and Debbie Steele Hayden, and Ernest Tubb, among many others.
As an expression of her love and respect for her friend, business partner, and companion, Campbell-Williams dedicated her song, "They That Wait Upon the Lord", to her husband.
Her body was conveyed to Memphis and funeral services were held on January 7 at the Mount Nebo Baptist Church by pastor Dr. Roy Love.