"Kedron" is in The Sacred Harp, The Southern Harmony and The Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second. It was composed by Elkanah Kelsay Dare in 1799. Elkanah Kelsey Dare (1782-1826) was born in New Jersey but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime before 1818. He was a Methodist minister and very possibly the music editor for John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813) that includes more than a dozen of his tunes. It has been published in 37 hymnals with a number of lyrics.