James C. Moore
Musician · 1888–1962 · Georgia
Best known for
Songwriter
James Cleveland Moore was a Georgia Baptist preacher and gospel songwriter whose 1914 hymn “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” — written after watching his father, the local musical director, begin to lose his voice in old age — became a country and bluegrass gospel standard. He wrote roughly five hundred songs over his ministry.
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- Born in 1888 in Georgia.
- Served as a Baptist preacher and maintained a musical ministry alongside his pastoral work throughout his life.
- Wrote “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” in 1914, after a visit to his father’s church where he realized the man who had taught him to sing was losing his voice.
- The song waited until 1930 to see commercial publication; it became a fixture of funerals, camp meetings, and revivals across the South within a decade of release.
- Wrote more than five hundred gospel songs over his career.
- Died in 1962.
