[Let me never leave Thee, blessed Savior]

[Let me never leave Thee, blessed Savior]

Composer: William B. Blake
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: 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 >

Tune Information

Title: [Let me never leave Thee, blessed Savior]
Composer: William B. Blake
Incipit: 51316 66616 51311
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Zion Songster No. 2 #42

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The Zion Songster Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #Z42

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