Mary E. (Gray) Carter |
| Posted 2016-10-06 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Monday, August 8, 1932, page 1, column 7 Mary Carter At Final Rest Mary Carter, beloved colored woman of Prescott, last Saturday night passed away at home of her son, Ernest Jordan at 213 North Granite street after an illness of several weeks. Although she had rallied several rimes, last Friday she began rapidly to sink into the Great Shadow and it then was realized that death only was a matter of hours. She practically was in a coma when the end came and she drifted into final rest as one goes smiling into sleep. Mrs. Carter was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in April 1858, and thus was in her seventy-fifth year when the Silent Messenger called her away. In Charlotte she married Albert Jordan, who, subsequent to the birth of her only son, died in that Carolina city. At maturity the son went to Paso Robles, Calif., and in 1900 he sent for his mother, and later went on in Paris, Calif., she was wedded to Crawford Carter, who succumbed a few years later. In 1910 the son of Mrs. Carter, obtained employment in Prescott and two years later she joined him here, hence she has been a local resident for twenty years. The son, Ernest, has been in the service of the Prescott Sanitary laundry for a long time. He has one daughter, Marian Collins, who is married and lives in Los Angeles. A graduated of Prescott High School, who was the pride of her grandmother's life, there being no sacrifice she would deny for the happiness and welfare of the girl upon whom she showered unstinted love. Mary Carter knew so many people here and was linked in devotion to such a large number of homes through association with with various families that her circle of loyal friends was as wide as that of any person in Prescott. For the last six years she had been housekeeper for W.P. Stuart at 411 East Goodwin street, a responsibility that was hers until the last. She also was caretaker foe the summer home of Mrs. E.A. Tovrea of Phoenix, this being the Brisley house at Pleasant and Goodwin streets. A Christian in the true sense of the word, conscious that she never wronged a human being and assured in her generous heart that she had served the Great Redeemer with the utmost faith of a stainless soul, Mrs. Carter went into eternity in the serene resignation of one certain to hear the Great Master say, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.' She fully realized the sands of life almost were exhausted, and as they slowly slipped away there came to her a peace and calm in which there was neither regret nor fear. The section of North Carolina from which Mrs. Carter came is peopled overwhelmingly with descendents of the Scotch, and this gives to the residents there a clannishness perhaps possessed by no others in the country. And this was implanted in her to a marked degree, the spirit of the people with whom she was thrown in girlhood having imbued her with its communal trend. Hence, she always felt closer to anyone from North Carolina than to those from other states. A few from there in Prescott she knew and liked, 'They are my people,' she would say. There was none like her here, and not many elsewhere with her perception of duty and loyalty to her interpretation of right. High and low, colored and white, she was esteemed and respected to the fullest extent. Many a tear will be shed because Mary has gone. Funeral services will be at the A.M.E. church on Montezuma street, of which she had long been a member, on Wednesday at 3 o'clock, and under the direction of the Rev. J. W. Harvey, the pastor. The body will be laid at rest in Citizens' cemetery on East Gurley street. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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