Anna Warner died on January 22, 1915 and was buried alongside her sister Susan in the cemetery at West Point "by special permission of the Secretary of War". Her final words to the Corps of-Cadets are contained in the second clause of her will in which she bequeathed to them the treasured portrait of George Washington which had hung so many years on the Revolutionary wall of her home on Constitution Island:

"Inasmuch as my sister and I agreed long ago that when our portrait of George Washington, painted by Stuart, left our hands it should go where we thought it would do the most work for our native land, therefore I give and bequeath the same to the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (whoever he may be at the time of my death) for the special use of the Corps of Cadets at the Academy (there being some question as to the legal capacity of the Corps as such to take the gift): on condition that said picture is kept at the Military Reservation at West Point, and placed where the Cadets can have free access to see and to study it; so learning to love and revere the man who - under God - not only founded the Institution to which they belong, but gave them the Country they have sworn to defend . . . ".

William Bradbury wrote the music to the hymn, Jesus Loves Me, in 1861, one year following the publication of Say and Seal. The DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY states that he was born October 6, 1816 in York, Maine, and died in Montclair, New Jersey, January 7, 1868. He had been a music teacher and a manufacturer of pianos.

A natural born musician, Bradbury is perhaps best known as a compiler of music, having set many hymns to music-hymns such as Jesus Loves Me, He Leadeth Me, and Just as I Am. During his teens Bradbury had studied under Lowell Mason and in later years, as a music teacher, William Bradbury organized free singing classes in various churches in New York City, employing some of the methods he had learned from his former music teacher. It has been said that it was Mason in Boston, and Bradbury in New York who led to the introduction of music in the public schools.

- Charlotte Snyder