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To this day, the vast majority of American hymnals contain her work. Some of her best known songs include "Blessed Assurance" [1], "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling You Home" [2], "Praise Him, Praise Him" [3], and "To God be the Glory"[4]. Since some publishers were hesitant to have so many hymns by one person in their hymnals, Crosby used nearly 100 different pseudonyms during her career.

Her blindness was caused when she was six weeks old by an incompetent doctor who was trying to treat an eye infection that she had. However, Crosby was never bitter about her disability. About her blindness, she said:

It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

She also once said, "when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior!"

Crosby was very well-known during her time and often met with presidents, generals and other dignitaries (she was asked to play at President Grant'sUlysses S. Grant Order 18th President Term of Office March 4, 1869 March 4, 1877 Followed Andrew Johnson Succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes Date of Birth April 27, 1822 Place of Birth Point Pleasant, Ohio Date of Death July 23, 1885 Place of Death Mount McG Funeral). In addition to writing songs she also taught EnglishIn literary criticism, the term English studies is occasionally used to refer to the critical study of English literature. The only thing distinguishing English studies from the broader category of academic literary criticism and literary theory is that i and historyHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor at the New York Institution for the Blind (now the New York Institute for Special Education ), where she had previously been a student.

When she died, her tombstone carried the words, "Aunt Fanny" and "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine." Eliza Hewitt memorialized Fanny’s passing in a poem:

Away to the country of sunshine and song,

Our songbird has taken her flight,

And she who has sung in the darkness so long

Now sings in the beautiful light.

Crosby is buried in Bridgeport, ConnecticutBridgeport (41n10, 73w12 EST) is a city located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 139,529. Edward Cardinal Egan was once bishop for Bridgeport. Barnum was once mayor of Bridgeport and built three h.