Edgar Page Stites, the lyricist behind Beulah Land, was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and hymn writer. He served as a soldier in the American Civil War and later became a riverboat pilot.

Lainey Wilson wants the same funeral song as her grandparents. The 33-year-old singer has revealed that when her time comes, she wants mourners to listen to an "old hymn called Beulah Land" because it ...