Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis.
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Display Title: Beautiful Isle of SomewhereFirst Line: Somewhere the sun is shiningTune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]Date: 1983Subject: Funeral | ; Heaven |
Display Title: Beautiful Isle of SomewhereFirst Line: Somewhere the sun is shiningTune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Display Title: Somewhere the Sun Is Shining (Beautiful Isle of Somewhere)First Line: Somewhere the sun is shiningTune Title: BEAUTIFUL ISLEAuthor: Jessie B. Pounds, 1861-1921Meter: 76.76. with RefrainScripture: Hebrews 11:16Date: 2011Subject: God | Eternity and Power; Heaven | ; The Christian Life | Death and Life Eternal
Display Title: Beautiful Isle of SomewhereFirst Line: Somewhere the sun is shiningTune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]Author: Jessie Brown PoundsScripture: Revelation 21:22-25Date: 1997Subject: Heaven | Eternal Home
Display Title: Beautiful Isle of SomewhereFirst Line: Somewhere the sun is shiningTune Title: [Somewhere the sun is shining]Author: Jessie B. PoundsMeter: 7.6.7.6.4.7.9.7Scripture: Revelation 21:23Source: Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (114); http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBEAUTISL; Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Beautiful_Isle_of_Somewhere); ttBEAUTISL.html (21 January 2007)