Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-01-27
The End Came to Mrs. Lulu Grant Sat
urday Night, Jan. 14th. Death Of
Bishop Follows 4 Week Later,
Sunday Morning, Fifteen
Minutes After Ten.

Special correspondence by E. Ed
ward Vaughan, Kansas City, Kan, Jan.
90, 1911.
Friends, both white and colored,
throughout the entire country were
surprised beyond measure to learn Of
the sudden death Of Mrs. Lulu B.
Grant, wife of Bishop Abram Grant,
of the Fifth Episcopal district. Death
was caused by an appoplextic stroke,
and came just after the departed had
taken the Lords Supper with her be-
loved husband, who was himself lying
dangerously i'll at the time. The sac
rament was given 81 Bishop BENZ. F.
Lee. The end came at S:15 p, M, at
the Episcopal resii snee s5s2 Washing
ton boulevard.
Funeral services were Immediately
arranged, and were held Tuesday, Jan.
18th, in the First A. M. E. church,
Eighth and Nebraska ave-, this city, to
which church Mrs. Grant belonged.
There services were conducted by Rt.
Rev. H. Blanton Parks, Bishop of the
Thirteenth A. M. E. district, who was
assisted by Rt. Rev. Benz. F. Lee,
Bishop of the Seventh Episcopal dis
trict, who delivered the funeral address.
The choir opened the services by sing.
ing E'Asleep in Jesus. - Appropriate
passages of scripture were then read
by both Bishop Parks and the Rev.
DR.. E. Arlington Wilson, pastor of the
Metropolitan church, this city. Miss
E. E.. Grant, of the Music Department
of Western University, sang "Jesus
Lover Of My Soul
Resolutions offered by the Minister
ial Alliance, the Interdenominational
Alliance, the pastor and members Of
the First A. M. E. church, Western Un-
iversity (whose students attended in a
body), the general officers and by the
Bishops Council. Many kilograms Of
coincidence were received and long
list Of these were read.
Bishop Lee took his text from 1st
Cor. 4:16-18 His address was funer-
al oration, and doubtless one of the
greatest sermons those present at the
funeral ever heard delivered, so rich
and full Of history and science and so
scholarly was it. This woman must
have led most noble and pure life.
The Rev. DR.. VIM. H. Peck, pastor
Of the Allen Chapel A. M. E. church,
Kansas City, Mo-, sang beautiful solo
hymn at the close of the sermon, Prof.
R. G. Jackson and Miss Beulah Doug
lass, of the Department Of Music,
Western University, assisted.
At the close of the services the body
was carried to Woodland cemetery,
where last funeral rites were conduct.
ed and the body placed in vault.
Mrs. Grant died at the age of fifty
eight years. At the age of eighteen
she professed a hope in Christ, and
inined the church at Lakeview, Fla.
She was married twice, the first time to
Bishop Armstrong, who died shortly
after he had been elected to the bish-
opic. On October 3, 1902, at Wilber-
force University, she was married to
Bishop Grant, to whom she remained
faithful until death separated them a
few short evenings ago. --...G
At this point news comes to me that
Bishop Grant passed away a few mo-
ments ago, after a lingering illness
which confined him to his couch during
the last two or three months. A most
remarkable type of man with strong
will power. At the time of the death
Of his wife, the Bishop was almost in
the Death Angels arms. Upon hear
ing of his wife's death, though it was
hard, he rallied through it, and i'm
mediately set to thinking how he might
attend the funeral of his dearly belov.
ed wife. Finding it impossible, he
urged that he must live long enough
to change his will, and Immediately DR..
John Hurst, his administrator (Wash-
ington, D. C.), was wired to come at
once. The Bishop lived long enough to
change his will. AZ H.. @s
Bishop was born Aug. "a, 1s47, and
was almost sixtyfour years Of age at
his death. He had been in the ministry
for the last thirty nine. years, and re-
ceived his ministerial training from
several bishops and clergymen Of the
Methodist Episcopal church (south),
who were attracted by his brightness
during the earlier years Of his life,