Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Grant, Major Hiram Lewis 1922 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cathy Blow rblow55@gmail.com September 8, 2022, 1:55 pm The Daily Argus Obituary - Major Hiram Lewis Grant January 26, 1843 - March 8, 1922 It is with genuine personal sorrow and fond reminiscences that run back to childhood days that we chronicle this afternoon the death of Maj. Hiram L. Grant, which occurred this morning at 5 o'clock at his home in this city, on south William street, which had been his residence for more than fifty years where he brought his bride in 1866 and where they lived in unalloyed happiness and reared their family of splendid children, all of whom save one survive to call their memory blessed, Mrs. Grant having preceded him to the tomb some 8 or 9 years ago, followed two years later by their daughter, Mrs. Minnie Grant Wilkins, the only death among the five children born to their marriage, the survivors being Rev. J. Hiram Grant, Mrs. J. B. Bowles, Mr. Louis N. Grant and Mrs. Daniel Gay, all of whom had but recently visited their father here, and had returned to their respective homes, except Mrs. Bowles, who had remained to have her father accompany her home to Statesville, as it was thought he would soon be able to do; but about 3 o'clock this morning he was stricken with another attack of heart failure, and his trained nurse and Mrs. Bowles quickly summoned his attending physician, but he failed to respond to restoratives, the end coming gently at the above hour. Maj. Grant was a native of Connecticut, and was 79 years old the 26 of last January. He came to Goldsboro in 1865 as a federal soldier in service, having gone through the entire period of the war in the field - which meant that he had come through many a hard fought field where brave men on both sides faced death and heroes fell. At the conclusion of hostilities Maj. Grant, whom that event found with his command in Goldsboro, decided to make this city his home - having learned to love the South, and in the summer of 1865 he opened a jewelry business here in co-partnership with the late R. A. Watts - a Virginian - an intrepid Confederate soldier who served under Lee and who, like Maj. Grant, found himself at the surrender of Goldsboro a prisoner of war. Later in that year or perhaps early in 1866, Maj. Grant was appointed by President Johnson postmaster of Goldsboro, and during the course of that year he married his boyhood sweetheart, Miss Lizzie Greene, of Putnam, Conn., beside whom he will be laid to rest in beautiful Willow Dale cemetery here on Friday morning, the funeral taking place from the First Baptist church, of which he and she were members from their earliest residence here. The hour of the funeral will be announced in tomorrow afternoon's Argus, as it cannot be definitely fixed until the arrival of his absent children who are now en route from their respective homes - the last to arrive will be Rev. J. Hiram Grant, who is coming from Ohio. Maj. Grant was always a progressive citizen, and in the course of the years had held positions as postmaster, State senator, City Alderman, federal court clerk, and as a volunteer in the Spanish-American war saw serv8ce under Roosevelt in Porto Rico, and in all positions he bore himself with ability and fidelity. Maj. Grant loved Goldsboro and her people, and to the memory of his beloved wife and as an expression of his love for Goldsboro he erected the splendid five story "Grant Building" on John Street, that being fire proof will endure for rolling ages. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/obits/g/grant2268nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb