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I Am Nearer Home

Author: Katharyn Bacon

Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I am nearer home at each setting sun
Title: I Am Nearer Home
Author: Katharyn Bacon
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I am nearer home, one more day has gone
Publication Date: 1914
Copyright: This text in in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1923.

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