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[One sweetly solemn thought] (Buchanan)

[One sweetly solemn thought] (Buchanan)

Composer: A. J. Buchanan
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: A. J. Buchanan

Adoniram Judson Buchanan was born on December 1854 in Linn County, Missouri. In 1867, short­ly af­ter the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, he moved with his family to a com­mun­i­ty near Sher­man in Gray­son County, Tex­as, pur­chas­ing sev­er­al acres of land and set­tling near the El­mont Com­mun­i­ty, a few miles west of Van Al­styne, Tex­as. NN, Hymnary Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [One sweetly solemn thought] (Buchanan)
Composer: A. J. Buchanan
Incipit: 55653 21566 67155
Copyright: Public Domain

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