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A Better Home

Author: J. A. Lee Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A better home awaits me there, When done with earth and all its care Refrain First Line: That better home is there for me

[A better home awaits me there]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 51353 32234 44217 Used With Text: A Better Home

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A better home awaits me there When done with earth and

Author: J. A. Lee Hymnal: Greatest and Lasting Hymns #d1 (1934) Languages: English

Author: J. A. Lee Hymnal: Lasting Hymns No. 2 #13 (1906) First Line: A better home awaits me there Refrain First Line: That better home is there for me Languages: English Tune Title: [A better home awaits me there]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[A better home awaits me there]" in Lasting Hymns No. 2 James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry