Fulton-Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Grady, Mr. Henry W. December 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise, December 26, 1889
GRADY DEAD, GEORGIA MOURNS IN SORROW THE DEATH OF HER FAITHFUL SON
     MR. HENRY W. GRADY, of the Atlanta Constitution, died in that city 3-40 a. 
m. Monday morning. He had been sick only a few days, having returned from 
Boston with a severe cold which grew into pneumonia and from which he died. 
Aged about 38 years. In the very bloom of a useful and promising manhood our 
friend and brother has been called to join the ranks of the silent majority. In 
the zenith of his glory, when the world began to understand his patriotism and 
appreciate his talents, he is summoned to bid adieu to earth and all its vain 
hopes and fleeting pleasures. He loved his people dearly and gave his life to 
their service. No truer son ever lived or died than was the matchless, 
brilliant, fearless Grady.
     The people of Georgia, of the south and of the entire Union knew him and 
in knowing him loved and honored him for the many priceless virtues he 
possessed. He stood head and shoulders above any man of his age in the United 
States. His recent oration on the South and Race Problem, in Boston, has never 
been equaled in logic, rhetoric and sound convincing argument.
     Henry Grady was a Georgian, born at Athens in 1851, and his untimely death 
comes as a personal bereavement to every home in the state, from the sea board 
to the mountains, and his loss will be felt from one end of this Union to the  
other. It is no easy task to write an appropriate tribute to the memory of so 
good and true a man. His unselfish devotion to the principles of right and 
justice between man and man will make the world better for his having lived in 
it.
     The editorial page of the Constitution was draped in mourning, Monday and 
a tender eulogy paid to his life and character, the two closing paragraphs 
being in these words:
     “What his career might have been, it is idle to conjecture. What it was 
might well fill the measure of any man’s ambition, for he won friends who loved 
him, he spoke to the listening echoes that made him famous, and he carried 
light and hope and comfort to many a poor heart that will weep in secret today.”
     “Death came to him gently. In the gray mists of the morning the angel of 
the Lord touched him, and then came so him the peace that passeth all 
understanding.”


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