Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-03-23
"GRANNY CROSSE" IS DEAD

remains of departed soul than those held
over Mrs Sarah Grose last Sunday after
noon. She was about eighty-three years
of age at the time Of her death, which oc-
cured last Friday night, and majority of
the years of her life had been spent in Sc
attic, and she therefore was truly a pio-
neer To pay their last respects to her
memory white and black mingled together
and judges, lawyers, doctors, and mer-
chants were present and looked long and
sorrowfully on her remains.
Mrs. Crosse, Aunt Sarah, Granny Crosse
and Granny had been one and the same to
not only all present, but to every one else
she had been thrown in contact with since
she came to Seattle-an administering an
gel. She had fed the hungry, clothed the
poor, cared for the sick and did not over
look the down and outer-White, black, red,
yellow, brown or any color, if in human
garb, were one and alike to her. About the
bier of this aged black mother strong and
influential men and women, white and
black, hung sorrowfully because they real
lied 'Mother' had gone to never return
She was not woman of great educational
accomplishments which caused the elite of
the city to turn out to pay homage to her
memory; she was not woman that en-
riched the world with her musical produc-
tons and performances that had brought
forth that great thrOng Of fellowmen to
pay their last respects to her memory she
was not woman that had great wealth
and had generously distributed the most
OF it to individuals and institutions and
those present had come to make pretense at
appreciation; in fact she was a woman of
no specific accomplishments that might
bring so great cosmopolitan crowd of
men and women to see her for the last
time but she was a woman,-bless her
memory-that had sweetened the bitter
cups and morsels of human life of those
who, either by misfortune or accident
were compelled to partake of them. Fred
erlck Douglas was great in the minds of
men because he was soul inspiring orator
and Booker 7. Washington was great be-
cause he was an educator and a benefac-
tor, but Granny Grose was great in the
minds of those who, for the past half CEN
fury, have met her in Seattle, because every
man was her son and every woman was her
daughter and she never said no to any of
them, who appealed to her for help, or
whom she observed to be in need of help
Let the life and the deeds of this sainted
mother remind each and every one of us
OF 1.-The good we all may do, while the days
are passing BY" Her blood relations have
no more cause to mourn her death than all
manner of man with whom she had met
from time to time while she yet lived
The glowing tributes of Rev. D. A. Ora
ham, Rev. S. j. Collins, Rev. W. D. Carter
and Judge j. IT, Ronald the sweet strains
OF music and the costly floral offerings were
as chaff against the wind in comparison to
the genuine heart sorrow Of the most of
those present as they looked upon the dead
face of her that had so often extended the
hand of mercy in life.
May perhaps "Granny Crosse" had never
read in the Bible the golden rule that
teaches us to do unto others as we would
have them do to u.s. but she lived it by day
and by night; nor did she ever grow tired
because her kindness was not always, if
ever reciprocated and often seemingly not
appreciated. Though she gave away her
worldly fortune, yet she inherited eternal