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Short Name: James Henry Stanley
Full Name: Stanley, J. H. (James Henry), 1869-1954
Birth Year: 1869
Death Year: 1954

James Henry Stanley, Feb. 2,1869 - June 1, 1954, was a singing school teacher, band director and hymn composer. He died in Saltillo, Miss., where he had been a resident for 60 years.He is buried at Springhill Presbyterian Church in Lee County. His best known composition was "Prepare to Meet Thy God," for which wrote music and lyrics.

Carolyn Hurt Nichols (grandchild), from email 7-19-2018


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Tunes by James Henry Stanley (14)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[All is not sunshine in this world of ours]J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[Careless soul, why will you linger]J. H. Stanley (Composer)3134556 51511 12653
[Dear friends, I have a story to tell]James Henry Stanley (Composer)534556 53231 11712
[I am thinking tonight of my old cottage home] (Stanley)J. H. Stanley (Composer)212334 32144 43122
[I lingered long in sin's dark way]J. H. Stanley (Composer)255434 32113 56654
[I read of a country where cometh no night]James Henry Stanley (Composer)2
[I was lost in sin when I heard Him say]James H. Stanley (Composer)434513 11165 55556
[In the Bible we read of a city so fair]J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[O I often think of the day to come]J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[Once I was lost all covered deep in sin]J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[Sowing in the sunshine, sowing all the day]J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[Thou my everlasting Portion] (Stanley)James Henry Stanley (Composer)334321 65122 22123
[Walk in the light! so shalt thou know] (Stanley)J. H. Stanley (Composer)2
[When the great day of all days comes to one and to all]J. H. Stanley (Composer)456133 21651 12112

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