Homer H. Denney was part of the group of Ohio Valley composers that produced compositions steeped with folk heritage. He would consider himself as much a river man as a musician right to the end, and history spans both ragtime and the last segment of the riverboat era in Ohio.no-ze rag cover Homer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, on the border with West Virginia, to Zachariah Denney and Emma Pauley. He also had a brother, Raymond Denney, born in January 1887.