Grace Edna (Hart) Crane (1876 - 1947)

Born 1876 in Ohio

Ancestors

Wife of Clarence Arthur Crane — married 1 Jun 1898 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Died 30 Jul 1947 at about age 71 in Teaneck, New Jersey

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Biography

Grace Hart wasborn in 1876. She is the daughter of Clinton Orestes Hart and Elizabeth Belden. She passed away in 1947.

From The Letters of Hart Crane, Preface:

The last chapter in the Crane biography occurred in 1947. On July 30th of that year, Mrs. Grace Hart Crane, the poet's mother, died in Teaneck, New Jersey. Before her death, she told Samuel Loveman^[1] that she wished to be cremated and her ashes to be cast into the East River from the Brooklyn Bridge. The necessary arrangements were made, and the editor [Brom Weber] was one of a small party which proceeded along Brooklyn Bridge on a windy, sunlit afternoon in Fall 1947. At intervals on the Bridge, there are signs warning pedestrians not to throw anything from the structure. By the time the party reached the center of the Bridge, considerable trepidation existed about the feasibility of respecting Mrs. Crane's last wishes. It remained at last for the editor to grasp the small, undecorated tin can and shake the ashes into the air, where they swirled about for a few moments and then fell mistily into the water below. Thus Crane's mother joined him in the element which had claimed him fifteen years earlier.

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Sources

1. ↑ Samuel Loveman met Hart Crane in 1918, and became closely associated with the 'Hart Circle'. He was also executor of Hart Crane's estate. See Wikipedia: Samuel Loveman

See also:

• The Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Brom Weber, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1965. - Original data: The Letters of Hart Crane
• Hart Crane, A Life, by Clive Fisher, Yale University Press (592p), 2002, ISBN 978-0-300-09061-1. See: Hart Crane, A Life; Chapter One
• Geni.com; Grace Hart
• 1880 US Census: Warren, Trumbull County, OH, 12 Jun 1880, Enumeration District 208, Pg. 29. - Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Roll: 1070; Page: 377A; Enumeration District: 208
• Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920: Clarence A. Crane & Grace Edna Hart, 1 Jun 1898, Chicago, Cook County. - Original data: Illinois Department of Public Health records. "Marriage Records, 1871–present." Division of Vital Records, Springfield, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1030285
• 1900 US Census: Garrettsville, Portage County, OH, 5 & 6 Jun 1900, Enumeration District 85, Sheet 5B. - Original data: Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1241314

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