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Marching Home

With our banners waving high, With our faces to the sky

Author: William B. Blake
Tune: [With our banners waving high, with our faces to the sky]
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: William B. Blake

William Burdine Blake, 1852-1938. William B. Blake, Sr., was born January 21, 1852, in London, Ohio; went to Virginia in the early 1870s and became connected with the music publishing house of the Ruebush-Kieffer Company, and remaining with this firm until 1889, when he moved to Ronceverte. He married Miss Alice Mary Horne, of Augusta county, Virginia, a daughter of Strother P. and Sarah Home. (Strother P. Horne was a Confederate soldier throughout the Civil war.) To this union were born seven children: Charles Stanley Blake, Bessie Mabel, William B,. Jr.. Henry St. John, Robert Russell, Mary Ellen and Edward Lester. At Ronceverte, Mr. Blake, Sr., associated himself in partnership with J. W. Hess in the publication of the Ronceverte News, a… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: With our banners waving high, With our faces to the sky
Title: Marching Home
Author: William B. Blake
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Marching home, marching home
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
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Loving Voices #96

Loving Voices #96

The Zion Songster No. 2 #36

The Zion Songster No. 2 #36
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The Zion Songster Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #Z36

The Zion Songster Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #Z36
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