I Am Nearer Home

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I am nearer home as each setting sun

Author: Katharyn Bacon (1914)
Tune: [I am nearer home as each setting sun]
Published in 3 hymnals

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 >

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First Line:	I am nearer home as each setting sun
Title:	I Am Nearer Home
Author:	Katharyn Bacon (1914)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I am nearer home, one more day has gone
Copyright:	Public Domain