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Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds (August 31, 1861 – March 3, 1921) was an American lyricist of gospel songs. == Life == Jessie Hunter Brown was born into a farm family in the village of Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. A staff writer for Christian Standard, she often collaborated with composer James Henry Fillmore, Sr. (1849–1936). In 1897 she married John E. Pounds, minister of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis, IN. As a college-educated, frontier woman, she's considered by some to... [more on Wikipedia]