“A Christian Lady”

The WaPo has a nice obit on Emma Daniel Gray, a devout Christian who cleaned the White House for 24 years. When she came to the president’s chair, the Post reports, “she would pause, cleaning materials in hand, and say quick prayer.” Gray, a member of Holy Trinity Worship Center International in the District, liked […]

The WaPo has a nice obit on Emma Daniel Gray, a devout Christian who cleaned the White House for 24 years. When she came to the president’s chair, the Post reports, “she would pause, cleaning materials in hand, and say quick prayer.”

Gray, a member of Holy Trinity Worship Center International in the District, liked President Carter, “because she felt he prayed a lot,” said her daughter. She also liked JFK, because he threw Christmas parties for the White House workers and their families.

In a detail straight from Faulkner, Gray was raised by her grandfather, who had been a slave and who, after paying his boss’s son to teach him to read, loved the Ten Commandments so much the town began calling him “Uncle Ten.”


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