J. R. Baxter

Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960)

Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama.
Died: January 21, 1960.

Baxter grew up in De­Kalb Coun­ty, Al­a­ba­ma. In 1926, he bought part of Vir­gil Stamps’ Gos­pel mu­sic firm, which be­came the Stamps-Bax­ter Mu­sic and Print­ing Com­pa­ny, one of the most suc­cess­ful Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­ers of the ear­ly 20th Century. Bax­ter ran the com­pa­ny’s Chat­ta­noo­ga, Ten­nes­see, of­fice un­til Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dall­as, Tex­as, to run the main of­fice. Af­ter Bax­ter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the bus­i­ness un­til she died; it was then sold to Zon­der­van. Bax­ter was in­duct­ed in­to the South­ern Gos­pel Music As­so­ci­a­tion Hall of Fame in 1997.

Lyrics--
After the Sun­rise
Farther Along
God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940)
He Bore It All
I Have Peace in My Soul
I Hold His Hand (© 1929)
I Love My Sav­ior, Too
I Want to Help Some Wea­ry Pil­grim
I’m Liv­ing in Ca­naan Now
Living Grace
Praise the Lamb of God
Something Hap­pens
Travel the Sun­lit Way
Try Je­sus
When He Blessed My Soul
When We Meet to Part No More

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