Onetime
Slave Dies, Aged 99
Langton:
Death removed one of the community's oldest residents on Thursday in
the person of Mrs. Mahala Grandason, 99 year-old colored woman, who
at one time was a slave in the Southern States.
She had been in failing
health for some time but had been confined to her bed for only a
short time. She is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. F. Cox of Detroit, and one son, Charles, with whom
she resided.
The funeral was held from
the Ostrander Funeral Home in Tillsonburg on Monday moring with the
Rev. George Medley, pastor of Langton Baptist church
officiating. The choir of Langton church sang an appropriate anthem.
The pallbearers were: J.
Brownlee, B. Brownlee,
George Brownlee, B. Deeg, G. Deeg and C. Boyd. Interment was in Oakwood cemetery, Simcoe.
