Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Grant, Lizzie Greene 1913
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The Daily Argus
Obituary - Lizzie Greene Grant
February 8, 1844 - January 20, 1913

After the war Hiram Grant married Lizzie Greene, of his home town of Putnam, 
Connecticut, and brought her to North Carolina.

All Goldsboro was made sad last night, when the news came over the wires from 
Philadelphia that Mrs. H. L. Grant died at a hospital in that city where she had 
gone for treatment.

Many years ago, she left her home in far away Connecticut a bride, and came with 
her husband, Maj. H. L. Grant, to make her home among a new people in this 
Southland.

From the day she came among us to the day of her death, Mrs. Grant was a 
blessing to the people not only of the city of Goldsboro, but of the county as 
well.

Her husband had already established his home in Goldsboro before he went to 
bring his bride from her Northern home, and as soon as Mrs. Grant came to 
Goldsboro, Goldsboro became her home and the Goldsboro people became her people.

Immediately after coming to Goldsboro, in her quiet, modest, womanly way she 
became deeply interested in the work of the First Baptist Church, and deeply 
interested in ministering to the necessities and the comfort of the poor of the 
community, and it was largely through her instrumentality that the society for 
systematically looking after the poor was organized, and the organization of 
this Benevolent Society was the beginning of the great work which culminated in 
the erection and establishment of Goldsboro's splendid hospital.

As we sit today with sorrowing hearts, at the loss the community has sustained 
in the death of this good woman, we feel that if we were an artist, we would 
like to paint the picture of a beautiful young bride, leaning on the strong arm 
of her husband, saying good-bye to her old home among the hills of New England 
and turning her face towards the sunshine of the far away South, coming to a new 
home, among new people in the old North State, at once becoming thoroughly 
interested in everything that pertained to the welfare of the community, a 
faithful, loving wife, an ideal mother, performing the highest mission of 
womanhood, the rearing of sons and daughters, themselves a blessing in each 
community in which they live, and gently and sweetly, year by year growing old 
with the same old time yearning, tender, loving sympathy for the poor, needy, 
and distressed, with sweet smile and gentle voice ever ready to speak words of 
encouragement to the despondent and downhearted and with wide open hands to 
everyone who needed her assistance.

Nature had wonderfully endowed Mrs. Grant with many talents, and she used every 
one of those talents for the good of the Master by service to His children.

Hers was a great life, because she was an ideal woman.

Such a life as this knows no fear in the days of health and strength, and such a 
life as this knows no fear when the full realization comes that soon all earthly 
ties shall be broken, that soon one must sweep out on the great unknown, alone, 
all alone, and yet not alone, for the Omnipotent One was at the bed-side when 
the spirit returned to God who gave it, and ministering angels went with her all 
the way to another new home, a home where sickness, and suffering, and sorrow 
never come, a home with God.

Mrs. Grant is survived by five children, Rev. J. Hiram Grant, one of the most 
prominent ministers in the Congregational Church of New England, Mr. L. N. Grant 
of this city, and three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Grant Bowles, and Mrs. Minnie 
Grant Wilkins, of Statesville, and Mrs. Emma Grant Gay, of Worcester, Mass.

Mrs. Grant was sixty-eight years of age.

To her husband and children our whole people tender their deepest sympathy.

The people of Goldsboro loved Mrs. Grant, and by them her death is a general 
personal sorrow.

The funeral will be held from the First Baptist Church tomorrow (Wednesday) 
afternoon at 4 o'clock.

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