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Gone home a little while before

Author: Johnson Oatman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Many friends who once walked Refrain First Line: They have gone home

[Many friends who once walked by my side]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. D. Jones Used With Text: Gone Home a Little While Before

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Gone Home a Little While Before

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Special Radio Selections #12 (1943) First Line: Many friends who once walked by my side Refrain First Line: They have gone home a little while before Languages: English Tune Title: [Many friends who once walked by my side]

Gone Home a Little While Before

Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Radiant Joy #62 (1944) First Line: Many friends who once walked by my side Refrain First Line: They have gone home a little while before Languages: English Tune Title: [Many friends who once walked by my side]

Gone home a little while before

Author: Johnson Oatman Hymnal: Joyful Lays, No.2 #d68 (1905) First Line: Many friends who once walked Refrain First Line: They have gone home Languages: English

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. Author of "Gone Home a Little While Before" in Special Radio Selections Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914