Folk Melody on "I Want Jesus to Walk with Me"

Here is the second installment of my series of organ works by African-American composers played on a historical American instrument, the 1893 J.W. Steere organ in the First Baptist Church of Owatonna, Minnesota, sampled by Evensong. “Folk Melody on ‘I Want Jesus to Walk with Me’” was composed by Raymond S. Henry (1931-2010), the same transcriber and editor of the prior upload a few days ago by Henry Sexton, “I’ll Fly Away.”

A biographical sketch from a 1992 dissertation by Paula Denise Harrell at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, entitled “Organ literature of twentieth-century black composers: An annotated bibliography,” (found here: https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Harrell_uncg_9314581.pdf) gives the following information:

“HENRY, RAYMOND S. (b. 1931) Raymond Henry earned the B.M. degree in theory and composition and the M.A. degree in music pedagogy from Manhattan School of Music. His teachers included Norman Coke-Jephcott and David Pizarro. Henry taught in the public schools of New York City and retired as Chairman of the Music Department at Wadleigh Junior High in Manhattan. His choral music is published by Augsburg.”

We also know that Henry served as the accompanist for the Boy's Choir of Harlem and the Harlem Community Chorale in the 1990s. His 2010 obituary (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/courierpostonline/name/raymond-henry-obituary?id=24855666) further mentions that he was a U.S. Army Korean War veteran.