Blankenbeckler’s song And with Glory Crown the Day was published in Bridgewater, Virginia, in 1898.
It seems likely he is James Knox Blankenbeckler, born about 1873 in Virginia, died March 2, 1906, Bristol, Tennessee. Bristol is 50 miles from White Pine, Tennessee, where George Bacon (composer of the music for the And with Glory Crown the Day) lived in 1911.
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