Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06
MRS. F. D. GRANT
EXPIRES AT HOME
Mother of Col. u. S. Grant
Was One of Capitals Most
Brilliant Figures.

Death removed from Washington So
ciety one of its most brilliant figures,
when Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, the
mother of Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd,
director of public buildings and public
parks, died at her home, I'LL New
Hampshire avenue, at 9 o'clock last
night, after a protracted illness, attrib-
uted to arterio-sclerosis. Members OF
her family, summoned to the National
Capital within the past few days, were
at her bedside when the end came. She
was rs years old.
Mrs. Grant. who was the daughter-in-
law of President Ulysses S. Grant, will
be buried on Monday at West Point,
N. Y, beside her distinguished hus-
band, Mai. Gen Frederick Dent Grant.
who died some years ago. Funeral serv-
ices will be held at st. Johns Church
here tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Grant
is survived by a daughter, Princess Can
tacuzene, and by six grandchildren,
Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Mrs.
Bruce Smith of Louisville, who was
Princess Bertha, Mrs. John G. Hamburg
Williams, who was the Princess Ida
and the three daughters of Col. Grant,
the Misses Edith, Clara and Julia Grant.
Prince Cantacuzene in Florida.
Prince Cantacuzene, who is an in
valid, is at present in Florida. AS a
general in the Russian army in the in
vasion of East Prussia during the World
War he was wounded in the lung and
has since been in ill health.
in
KY, on June 4, 1854, the second daugh-
ter of Henry Hamilton Honore and
Eliza Jane (Carr) Honore. She was
christened Ida. Her paternal grand
mother was a Miss Lockwood, whose
father, an Army officer, served for many
years at Fort Dearborn, the present
site of Chicago. Settling in Chicago,
her father became one of the pioneer
business men of that community.
Both daughters Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Honore, Mrs, Grant and Mrs. Potter
Palmer, who was the elder, were edu
Gated at the Georgetown Visitation Con-
vent here, although they were members
of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Grant
was graduated from this Catholic in
stitution with high honors, being
awarded prizes by Gen. William T..
Sherman.
Upon her return to Chicago she met
and married Lieut.. Col. Frederick Dent
Grant, who was the eldest son of Presi-
dent Grant and was at that time serv-
ing on the staff of Gen. Sheridan.
Later she visited her parentsin-law at
the White House and became q social
favorite in the Capital.
Her brilliancy and magnetic charm
made friends for the couple wherever
her husbands duties called him. Dur
ing his service as American Minister to
Austria, from 1889 to 1898, she en-
deared herself to VienneSe society as
no other American had before her.
She purchased the residence at I'LL
New Hampshire avenue on the death
of her husband in 1912, for it was there
that they had planned to live, after his
retirement. AS a token of her respect
and admiration for President and Mrs.
Grant. she collected numerous mo-
mentos of them in her home This
unusual woman gathered about her a
host of new and old friends and enter
tanned on an extensive, though modest,
scale, and until her illness she was
present at White House social affairs
She was one of the last of Wash
ington's notables to abandon the state
ly horse and carriage.
A reredos of sculptored stone for the
altar in the chapel at West Point was
given by her as a memorial to Gen.
Grant and to her husband. Near
there she will rest, at the last. when
the special funeral car bears her away
from the National Capital for the last
time.