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Some happy day, some blessed day

Author: E. W. Chapman Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Some day we shall lay

[Some day we shall lay our burdens down]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 51333 32442 25435 Used With Text: Some Happy Day

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Author: Mrs. E. W. Chapman Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #45 (1894) First Line: Some day we shall lay our burdens down Refrain First Line: Some happy day, some blessed day Languages: English Tune Title: [Some day we shall lay our burdens down]

Some Happy Day

Author: Mrs. E. W. Chapman Hymnal: Heart Songs #147 (1893) First Line: Some day we shall lay our burdens down Refrain First Line: Some happy day, some blessed day Languages: English Tune Title: [Some day we shall lay our burdens down]

Some happy day, some blessed day

Author: E. W. Chapman Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs. New ed. #d149 (1901) First Line: Some day we shall lay Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Composer of "[Some day we shall lay our burdens down]" in Heart Songs Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Anzentia Igene Perry Chapman

1849 - 1889 Person Name: Mrs. E. W. Chapman Author of "Some Happy Day" in Heart Songs Anzentia Igene (Angie) Perry Chapman, 1849-1889. Born near Lansing, MI, Angie was the wife of Free Methodist minister, Edwin W. Chapman. They had three children. She helped on his evangelism tours and rural preaching circuits. They worked in Sparta, MI, and helped found the first Free Methodist church in Grand Rapids, MI. She also wrote hymn lyrics. In 1888 they followed an evangelistic tour of Kansas, and them moved to Isabella County, MI. She died in Mt. Pleasant, MI. John Perry