Frances "Fanny" J. Crosby - Bridgeport, CT
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The grave of poet, lyricist, and composer Frances "Fanny" J. Crosby is located in section 8 of Mountain Grove Cemetery at 215 Dewey Street, Bridgeport, CT
Waymark Code: WM11W32
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 12/26/2019
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The grave of Frances "Fanny" J. Crosby contains a monument with biographical information and a small individual headstone. The monument has the opening verse from her hymn "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!". It is inscribed:
In grateful
and loving memory of
FANNY J. CROSBY
Who inspired and edified
Christians all over the world
by the writing of more than
3000 hymns and poems.
BORN IN SOUTHEAST N.Y.
MARCH 24, 1820
MARRIED MARCH 5, 1855 TO
ALEXANDER VAN STYNE
DIED IN BRIDGEPORT CONN.
FEBRUARY 12, 1915
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh what a foretaste of Glory Divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of the Spirit washed in His blood.
ERECTED BY FRIENDS TO WHOM
HER LIFE WAS AN INSPIRATION
Behind the monument is an individual headstone that is inscribed:
AUNT FANNY
SHE HATH DONE
WHAT SHE COULD
FANNY J. CROSBY
Fanny J. Crosby was a mission worker, who despite the fact that she was blind, wrote over 8000 hymns and gospel songs. Making her the most prolific lyricist in American history. She is known as both the "Queen of Gospel Song Writers" and as the "Mother of modern congregational singing in America".
She also wrote more than 1,000 secular poems and published four books of poetry:
The Blind Girl
Monterey and Other Poems
A Wreath of Columbia’s Flowers
Bells at Evening and Other Verses
She also wrote five autobiographies:
Fanny Crosby's Life-Story
Fanny Crosby's Life-Work
Memories of Eighty Years
Safe in the Arms of Jesus: Illustrated Pantomimed Hymn
This is My Story, This Is My Song