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I want to go there, don't you

We read of a land of the pure and the free

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Published in 4 hymnals

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Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)  Go to person page >

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First Line: We read of a land of the pure and the free
Title: I want to go there, don't you
Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)

Gospel Sunshine #d170

Gospel Sunshine #d170

Songs of the Blessed Hope #d245

Songs of the Blessed Hope #d245

Waves of Praise #ad170

Waves of Praise #ad170

Waves of Praise #d121

Waves of Praise #d121
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