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[Just over the river there waits for me]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Pledger B. Jones Incipit: 13332 16561 12222 Used With Text: I Mean to Cross Over Some Day

I Mean to Cross Over Some Day

Author: James Rowe Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Just over the river there waits for me Used With Tune: [Just over the river there waits for me]

Instances

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I Mean to Cross Over Some Day

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crown Him King #7 (1928) First Line: Just over the river there waits for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the river there waits for me]

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 #22 (1929) First Line: Just over the river there waits for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the river there waits for me]

I Mean to Cross Over Some Day

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Crowning Hymns No. 8 #177 (1928) First Line: Just over the river there waits for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the river there waits for me]

People

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Pledger B. Jones

1885 - 1961 Composer of "[Just over the river there waits for me]" in Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "I Mean to Cross Over Some Day" in Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)