Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-29
MRS. CHARLES CROKER.

The announcement of the death of Mrs.
Charles Croker came upon this commu-
nifty as great shock. The lady was be-
lieved to be in fine health and with full
promise of many pleasant years before her.
In this city, where Mrs. Croker passed SO
many eventful years of her life, and where
she has always maintained home, she
was esteemed as only good, broad-minded
and sentlewomen are. Her sudden death
is here deeply deplored, and the sigas Of
grief over her loss are seen in the counten-
ances of the people. The citizens of Sac
ramento knew her as a woman whose heart
was tender to all the appeals of humanity,
vino was a faithful wife, and mother of
deep affection and an exaltei sense Of the
dignity and nobility of the title. Her
ability to contribute to works for the ben
eft of the race and the alienation of
human suffering was met by her generous
and discreet dispensations for those pur-
poses. She was one of those who believe
in the mission of wealth to mitigate the
woes of others and enlarge the opportuni
ties of the people. Her charities were not
pretentiously announced, and there are
many hundreds of instances in which her
helping hand had been stretched forth at
just the right time, of which the general
public has never been informed. Her
charities were muni6cent, but never osten-
tatious. While wealth gave her the OPP
portunity to take a front place in the
society activities of her time, she never APP
peared selfshly ambitious for such honors;
albeit, she was hospitable with unbounded
liberality, and took her place in society in
manner BETTING the important part
given her to perform in life, but it was
done in that quiet and dignifed manner
that commanded for her universal re-
spect, and won her the regard of all who
knew her. She was at once a liberal
patron Of the fine arts and bountiful in the
promotion of education. She satisfied her
humane instincts by extending her aid
to the erection of an edifce for the Young
Women's Christian Association, by labor
ing for the Children's Hospital, by stand
ing the friend of the Boys and Girls Aid
Society, by providing for the Old Peoples
Homein San Francisco, by contributing con-
stantly to the Associated Charities, by aiding
the California Woman's State Hospital, and
by host of private charities to the de-
serving needy, that with the natural mod
esty and reserve of her character were not
permitted to be made known to the world
at large. Mrs. Croker for twenty-three
years was a resident of this city She
really began her married life here as a
woman of very limited means; here the
foundation of her fortune was laid and her
possessions largely accumulated; here all
her children were born; here she faced
the world with her husband and together
they won from it success. Around Sacra-
mento, as she frequently said, chung the
sweetest memories of her life, and so at
tached was she to this, her early home,
that she never surrendered her residence
here, and always spent some portion of
each year among this people. There is
sincere mourning in Sacramento for her
untimely death, and in this city her mem
DRY viii ever be cherished with the tender
est regard.