About author Audra Czarnikow, a little more information is available.
Two of my sources for information are these webpages:
Song Stories: God Walks the Dark Hills
and
Audra Czarnikow's great-niece Victoria (blog)

You may link to the above pages to read all the details;
this post will provide a brief summary thereof.

Audra Czarnikow died 1994 in Oklahoma.
She was born Audra Louise Allen, on January 6, 1904, somewhere in Oklahoma,
to John Wesley Allen and Cynthia (sometimes spelled 'Synthia')   Ann Allen, née Vaughan.
Audra L. Allen was one of several children,
whose names include David, John Wesley junior, Villa, Mary Adeline, and Eric.
You will hear more about Audra's brother Eric later on.

Czarnikow is Audra Louise's married name, and she married late in life.
Her husband was George Czarnikow who was born in 1892.
He was a widower;
with Arvilla English, his first marriage, he was co-parent
of Ida Thelma Czarnikow and Bonita Beatrice Czarnikow, as well as Evelyn,
born before 1930.
George was an Arkansas native, and his first wife is buried there.
Arvilla English Czarnikow died in 1930 at the age of 32 years.

I will submit this post and continue in a later post.