Jedediah Morgan Grant, Jr. (III)

1879 - 1930

J. Morgan Grant Jr. was born the 11th of August 1879 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah to Lucy Fackrell and Jedediah Morgan Grant (II). Morgan was the second child. His sister Alfa was the first child. Morgan was blessed the 9th of January l880 by his father, J.M. Grant. The Grants were living in Woods Cross near Bountiful when a big east wind struck and blew the roof off their house. There were three children in the family at that time, Rosetta being the youngest.
Called to Settle in Randolph, Utah
It was not long after the roof blew off their house that the Grants and another family the Jacksons were asked to move to Randolph, Utah and help settle the area. The Grants went into the Cattle Business they lived on the North Fork of Otter Creek about 5 miles from town.
More children were born to the Grants, while they lived in Randolph Joseph, Henry, and Estella. And little Rosetta died at 6 years of age. Then two more girls were born to the Grants Jemima and Lita. Morgan was baptized on the same day as his sister Alfa, the 18th of June 1888 by Hyrum J. Norris and confirmed the next day by George A. Peart. Around 1889 the price of cattle dropped. The Grants drove their cattle to Salt Lake City to sell and when they got there the price of a cow plus a calf was $5.00. That price was much to low to take so they drove the cattle back to Randolph. At this time Morgan (II) was unable to make the payments on the ranch so they moved onto a 320 acre farm 3 miles closer to town.
Morgan went to school in Randolph, which consisted of mostly the three R's. School teachers were very strict if a child misbehaved they were whipped. Morgan's sister Alfa was just older than Morgan so if he was punished in school he knew he would receive a whipping at home. His mother expected the best from him. She believed that a child should be punished for their mistakes and that a child should always be kept busy. He and his brothers and sisters would walk to school when the weather was good. In the winter time they drove back and forth in an open sleigh.
Farming in Randolph
The farm the Grants moved onto had a heavy growth of sage brush on it. Consequently, after school and on Saturdays, the Grant children had to get out and help burn sage brush, especially in the spring of the year. The men would get the sage brush plowed up and raked into windrows, then at night they would burn all they could. Morgan (II) grew a lot of oats, so in the fall, the Grant children had to shock grain, help stack it, and during threshing time, work on the straw stack. In the winter time the children helped sack the grain to take it to market.

Fun on the Bear Lake
While living on the farm, Lucy and Morgan (II) used to arrange for the children to go over on Bear Lake and spend a few days every summer, either at Aunt Sis Sprouse's (Lucy's sister) in Garden City, or Aquilla Nebeker's in Lake Town. The children enjoyed that. To complete the Grant Family two more children were born, Austin and Wesley.
Cleveland Panic
In 1897 when the Cleveland Panic hit the country the Grants lost the farm and moved into town and when school was out, the boys who were old enough worked out. They worked 10 hours a day for 50 cents and their dinner. When summer came, a man who was raised in Randolph and with whom the Grants were acquainted, offered Morgan (II) and Morgan Jr. and Joe work at a big cattle ranch. Their acquaintance was the ranch foreman. They got three times as much pay as they were getting on the small farms, but the ranch was a rough place for a boy to work. At the ranch they operated three hay camps, so they put each of them in a different camp. Morgan (II) stayed about 3 weeks, the work was hard. He was rode a mowing machine. Morgan Jr. stayed about 6 weeks; he didn't get along with the boss. Joe stayed until September.
Business School
While they were living in Randolph, Morgan's parents sent him to a Business School in Salt Lake City. Morgan went for about one quarter. He enjoyed himself there. They had electric lights at that time and the boys would throw a stick up and hit the wires so that the lights would go out.
A Mission to Settle in the Big Horn Basin
In the spring of 1900, Morgan's father was called on a mission by President Lorenzo Snow to take his family, which included the five boys, and Lucy's brother William Henry Fackrell and go to the Big Horn Basin. They forded the Bear River and stayed the next night in Kemmerer. Many of the people that were going to the Big Horn Basin organized at Hams Fork into companies. Their company was #4. The captain was Alfred Nebeker, the Chaplain being Morgan (II) and the Hostler was George A. Peart. The Grants had 3 wagons, Morgan (II), Henry Fackrell and Morgan Jr. drove them. Joe tended to the cattle. They left April 27, 1900 from Hams Fork. While they were traveling on the way down South Pass it was so steep that they chained a log to the back of the wagon and rough locked the wheels to keep the wagon from running over the horses. They went up the Greybull River to Meeteetse and crossed the Shoshone River about 3 miles below Cody using the Corbett Bridge.
When they arrived at the Powell Flats there were lots of sage brush and antelope herds. They hadn't had meat for quite sometime and they were meat hungry. So a bunch of the men went off to get some antelope, but when they got back they didn't have any antelope. They went on down the river and arrived where the colony was camped on the 19th of May 1900 it had taken 3 weeks and one day to make the trip. The area was described as sand and salt sage. They could hardly prepare a meal that wasn't filled with sand before it was eaten.
Camped to build Canal
They and many others of the colony camped at the Howell place in tents for the summer. Every morning they would have Morning Prayer, they would sing a song "Come to prayer, come to prayer" in the morning. An irrigation system had to be set up so that the land could be used for farming; all the men went to work on building a canal, the Sidon Canal.
Answer to Prayer
By the 7th of September the colony was running out of money and getting discouraged. A special fast was called. And their prayers were answered, in that the Burlington Railroad was going to build a railroad into the Big Horn Basin and needed men to build the grade. The people were let off from the canal in order to build homes for the winter and get ready to work for the railroad. Part of the men worked on the canal and part at putting in grade for the rail road. The colony was able to finish the canal because of the money they got from the railroad.
Assigned to Raise Hay
The Apostle Woodruff asked Morgan (II) to rent a farm and raise hay for the colony. The Grants rented a farm east of Lovell from J.J. Marshall. It took them about two months to build a log house and haul firewood to last the winter. The farm was already being rented to a family by the name of Tracy. Then Uncle Henry, Joe and Morgan Jr. went into Montana to work on the railroad. When spring came the Grants started to raise hay for the colony. When they would haul it over to the colony President Session would have them hook their team up and drag the canal until it was too dark to see. At that time there were no bridges you had to ford the rivers.
The Grants hired the hay bailed the first year and then they purchased a hay bailer of their own, the old horse drawn type. Joseph & Morgan were sent to Bridger to get it. On the way back they ran into a storm. It was a real Wyoming Blizzard it was freezing cold. Morgan ran beside the wagon to help them keep on the road while Joe drove the wagon. When they finally found a farm house Morgan had a hard time getting Joe off the wagon. Joe was so cold he didn't want to move. They couldn't get their hands to close they were so frozen. So the farmer unhitched the team for them. This was one of the many stories that Morgan related to his son Nolan.
They raised hay for the colony for three years and farmed some of the land we acquired under the new canal in Cowley. They had 160 acres in Cowley 80 acres west of Cowley and 80 acres south of Cowley. Often they would entertain church and other dignitaries.
Called to Irish Mission
In 1903 Morgan was called on a Mission to Great Britain. On the 16th July 1903 Jedediah Morgan Grant Jr. received his Patriarchal Blessing in Lovell by George Crosby. On the 20th of July he departed for Salt Lake City where he visited relatives. On Aug 4th Morgan purchased his ticket to Liverpool. It was $67.00. He was set apart by Apostle George Teasdale. August 5th he received his endowments in the Salt Lake Temple. He left Salt Lake by train at 5:45 Aug the 8th. At Buffalo he boarded the Mayflower it departed shortly after 1:00. On Aug 22 he arrived in Liverpool, England.
He was appointed to the Irish Mission by Mission president, Apostle M. Lyman. He left for Belfast, Ireland on the steam boat Magic. It was a little over a month from the time he left his home in Lovell, Wyoming to reach his field of labor in Belfast, Ireland. The two years spent in Ireland was very special to Morgan through out his life. They had street meetings; this was one way of finding contacts to teach. Most of his mission was in Dublin and surrounding area.
I Have to Eat this Food?
Morgan found the food there to be his biggest problem, being as the Grants were always selective in their food habits. In the rural community in Ireland the barn and houses were in one building. They had cows, chickens and pigs. You could often see a pig in the house as they had the run of the house. When they milked they wouldn't take the cream off and they put the milk in a big 55 gallon barrel. Once this barrel finally got full they would make it into butter. This barrel had a really strong smell it was a dark gray color. The barrel had a foot pedal and the lid on the barrel would churn the butter when the foot pedal was used. They would roll up about a pound of butter in cloth and trade it for tea, salt, etc. When one went to the butcher for some meat he just cut some off. There weren't different cuts. They just thought meat was meat. But they had two types of butchers Hog butcher and Beef Butchers.
At night the missionaries would have to pick the cooties off of themselves, the sanitation was so bad. During the year of 1904 he spent total of $186.00.
Wesley bids Farewell
While Morgan was on his mission his youngest brother Wesley died of leakage of the heart. Wesley had been ill for about nine months but he wanted to see his oldest brother so he held on to life as long as possible. Morgan tells in his Missionary Journal of how Wesley came and told him goodbye while he was on his mission in Ireland. Morgan knew he was gone before he received the letter from home telling him the news.
Trip of Europe
Heber J. Grant was the Mission President at the time of his release. Heber had two nephews on a mission in Ireland one of them being Morgan and the other Walter Grant. He gave them both a trip to Europe. One of the places Morgan saw was Holland. On the way back to the U.S. Morgan rode the Lusitania on its maiden voyage. This ship was one of those sunk during World War I. Morgan was released from his mission on the 3rd of November 1905.
Courting Nellie
When Morgan got back from his mission he found that the May family had moved to Lovell, onto the old Cotner place. It was while attending MIA at one of the dances that he met one of the daughters Nellie Amelia May. He started courting her; sometimes he would ride a horse over to her home or sometimes walk on the rail road. When he walked on the railroad, he would have to cross the railroad bridge. Morgan was afraid of heights and he would have to crawl across the bridge.
In the year l906 was the first year the Grant family started to raise Sugar Beets. Morgan (II) and his sons had a lot of learning to do as they raised sugar beets.
Temple WeddingAfter about a year of courting they decided to get married in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity. They rode a train to Salt Lake City it went around by Nebraska to Denver, Colorado. It took them about 3 days to get to Salt Lake City. John Winder May married Jedediah Morgan Grant Jr. and Nellie Amelia on the 6th of October 1906 in the Salt Lake Temple. Here they spent their Honeymoon. Morgan enjoyed introducing his bride to his many relatives living in the Salt Lake and Bountiful area. On the 18 May 1907 Jedediah Morgan Grant Jr. was set apart as a Seventy by Francis M. Lyman.
First Child
After their marriage they moved into the log house on the farm that the Grants had first built when they came to Lovell. On the 3rd of October 1907 their first child was born Jedediah Morgan Grant (the 4th). He was the first grandson in the Grant family and was loved and spoiled by all, but he wasn't permitted to stay. He was called home to his Heavenly Father on the 24th of March 1908, leaving an empty place in their home.
More Children
A few months later Nolan Grant their second child was born on the 27 Jan 1909. He was named after a family Morgan had met on his mission. Again the Grant family had another boy to pour out their love to.
Next came their first daughter Nelliemae born Oct 1, 1910. She was named after her mother Nellie May.
Fire
When she was very small another tragedy came to Morgan and Nellie. Nellie had built a good fire in the cook stove put her boiler of water to heat to do her washing. While the water was heating, Nellie took Nolan in his little red wagon, left Nelliemae asleep in the house and went to the Grants root cellar for a squash and some potatoes. The cellar was less than a block from their house, there was a row of willow's between their home and the cellar. Nellie hurried as she had dinner to prepare and washing to do. As soon as she passed the willows she could see smoke coming out of her house. She left Nolan crying in the wagon ran to the house opened the front door the room was full of smoke. Opened the back door the fire started there, this created a draft the fire spread. Running to the bedroom window she broke the glass and somehow managed to get in the window to get her baby daughter out. By that time some workers in the field had seen the smoke and arrived. They managed to recover a rocking chair and the trunk that had traveled with Morgan to Ireland and back. They lost everything else they owned but the clothes on their backs. The rocking chair was used to rock most of the Grant's children. (The trunk has been special to the family and Nelliemae now has it.) They moved to another house on the Grant farm.
September 2, 1913 Viva came to the family and then November 2, 1915 Donna.
Blessings
Nolan remembers having the croup a lot. He would say get the ipecac. Then when he was about to choke to death his Papa would administer to him and he would go to sleep and just be a little hoarse the next morning.
Land
Everyone was given the privilege of filing for 40 acres of land on the bench it was south and a little east of Lovell. Morgan filed on the land. Here they planned to build a home and raise their family but their dream was never realized. Morgan (II) asked his son Morgan Jr. to stay and help him with the farm instead of having his own 40 acres and that he (Morgan Jr.) would get to have 40 acres of his (Morgan II's) land. They found Morgan had a heart condition. The Dr. felt it had followed a bad case of measles.
Their family continued to grow. Their next and last son Wilson was born in 1917. He was born on the 4th of July and he was named after the United States President at that time Woodrow Wilson.


Flu Epidemic
When the flu epidemic came in 1918 Morgan spent many nights sitting with friends and neighbors that were ill. One night sitting with Olaf Jensen he went to sleep and fell off the chair. He wasn't hurt except skinned his head, the scar was visible the rest of his life. He never had the "flu" nor did his wife and children, but his mother Lucy passed away the January 11, 1919. Lucy was a hard worker, her grandson Nolan Grant remembers her saying "Idle hands are the devils tools, if you haven't anything to do, gather sticks and scatter them again.
DepressionAfter World War I Morgan and his brother Joe where planning to buy the farm. The price of land was high at this time. It was going to cost them about $60,000. The depression hit and many people were in debt. They couldn't afford to buy it. The drop in prices was so great that Morgan’s brother-in-law Victor Showalter, being a sheep man could have sold his sheep one day for 80,000 and the next day was 20,000 in the hole. Morgan bought 80 acres of the farm form his father Morgan (II) and his wife Pheobe for $10,000. Joe went to Utah to find work.
Wilson remembers them having a tractor. One day he wanted to cross the ditch (he was a little fellow at the time) and whoever was driving the tractor let him stand on the draw bar and backed the tractor up to the ditch and let him across. They had the tractor when Joe and Morgan were farming together.
On the 25th of January 1920 a Special High Council meeting was called with President Edward W. Croft presiding. The purpose was to discuss sending missionaries into the stake for 2 weeks labor. They were to distribute tracts, books, preach, teach and do regular missionary work. George Easton, Jedediah M. Grant and Charles R. Lyman volunteered to go when asked by the Stake Presidency. Morgan labored in Worland.
The FarmAfter Grandma Grant (Lucy) died. Morgan and Nellie moved into the Grant home and Grandpa Grant built a new brick house in town. On the 1 April 1920 Grandpa remarried a woman by the name of Mrs. Pheobe A. Steer Pidcock. She was a widow with two daughters. This marriage did not last long they were divorced the 8 Aug 1922.
Rosalia a dark haired little baby was born in this home on June 28, 1921. She was named for her Grandma Rosalie May but with an "A."
On the 15 Feb 1922 Morgan Jr. bought 80 acres of the farm from his father Morgan (II) and his wife Pheobe. The main crop on the Grant farm was sugar beets about 60 of the 80 acres. In 1925 the yield was 19.31 tons per acre. One thing that kept the crops so good was that they always had a herd of 15 to 20 dairy cows. The manure was used to fertilize the fields. They also raised a little grain and hay for the cows and horses.
Peas and the Mexicans
We had a labor house quite often no one was living in it. The field man for the Sugar Factory wanted Morgan to let some Mexicans live in it free for the winter, so we often had Mexicans in it in the winter. Morgan would often share milk and sometimes peas with the Mexicans. The previous summer, they had raised peas for the canning factory. These peas had gotten too ripe to sell to the canning factory so Morgan had thrown them up on the horse barn to dry out. He planned on feeding them to the animals. Morgan had noticed the Mexican taking a few peas from off the horse barn every now and again but it was only a few so Morgan didn't say any thing. One day the Mexican had a friend over and he and his friend came over and got a few peas off the barn and Morgan didn't say any thing to them it was only a few peas. Well the Mexican finally moved on. And then one day the Mexican's friend came and started loading the peas into his wagon. Morgan went over and asked him what he thought he was doing. The Mexican said that the Mexican that had lived in the labor house had sold him the peas. Morgan told him that they were not the Mexican’s to sell and that he had better put them all back on the barn.
Living on the Farm
They always had from 1 to 12 pigs and some chickens. Wilson remembers them selling the eggs for about 60 cents a dozen. He would trade one egg for a candy bar in at the store. Wilson remembers them butchering a pig about twice a year and having canned pork and beef. For a while the cows were kept up on the 40 acres on the bench and they would milk them their. Latter Papa signed a quick claim deed to Cyrus Robertson for the place for back taxes.
Papa and Nolan would do the milking. Viva would also do a lot of the out door chores. Mama would make butter from the cow’s milk. They would sell it for 40 cents a pound. The table would often be full of butter. They delivered the butter twice a week to their customers on their butter route and would sell some to the store. Wilson remembers packing water from the well in the corrals to keep the milk, cream, and butter cool in the summer. Nolan remembers this as being the time when they had the best living.
Papa had a bunch of horses. He was always breaking one. When they were colts he would tie them to their mother and when they were big enough he would put a harness on them, then he would work them between two other horses. It seemed they always had a bunch of young colts. Papa always had a good cultivating team to cultivate the beets and beans.
Nolan remembers his father getting up at 4:00 and going into the sugar factory and getting a load of wet beet pulp to feed the stock, then coming home and milking two cows. There was no open water on the place. Papa had to pump water with a pitcher pump for hours by hand, and then haul hay and straw. Nolan remembers the music that the iron tired wagon wheels make going on snow when the temperature was below zero. Nolan could tell when his Papa was coming home by the screech of the wagon tires. They would often feed other peoples cows the beet pulp on their land, so they could have the manure for fertilizer for the fields. Wilson remembers his Papa putting the frozen beet pulp in the silo to keep and slowly feeding it to the cows.
Papa would often fall asleep at the table after working in the fields. He would put his arm over the back of the wooden chair, put his head on his arm and fall asleep. Farming is hard work and long hours; this Papa did that he might support his family.
Once when Papa was coming home from town in the buggy in the dark a car ran into them. It broke the tongue off the buggy and the horses ran away. Nolan and Papa looked all over and couldn't find them. The next day the horses turned up at the house still hooked to the tongue.
Family Prayer
In the Morgan Grant Jr. home they would always have Family Prayer every morning and every night just before it was time to eat they would pull out their chair from the table, turn them around and kneel down and Papa would most always say the prayer. Then we would sit up to the table and one of us kids would say the blessing on the food. For breakfast we would usually have oatmeal, some kind of cooked cereal for supper and fried oatmeal for dinner.
Church
When we went to church Dad would hitch up the wagon and we'd go in the wagon. The buggy was too small for all of us. That old wagon would generally have had manure or beet pulp in it. It had been scraped out, but we all stood up in the wagon so as to keep clean. Once in a while we kids would walk into church. Rosalia remembers walking into town to the old White Church when the weather was good, with Papa and some of the other kids. Papa would sometimes carry Ruth and Rosalie on his shoulders when they got tired.
Gentle and Loving
Wilson doesn't remember Papa ever reading to the children but he generally would tell them stories. If he did it was usually raining. Donna remembers how her Papa loved children and was always very gentle with the little ones. Sometimes she would feel flustered when one of them would fall and he would say 'Come here and I'll pick you up" after all you'd already be up by the time you got to him.
Donna remembers how her Papa loved music but was completely tone deaf. She has heard him sing "Oh Ye Mountains High" and "Oh My Father" without changing a note up or down. On Oct l5, 1923 Ruth a light haired little girl came to their home.
The Cat
Rosalia remembers that on her 5th birthday Nelliemae, Viva and Donna gave her a party, one of her gifts was a yellow striped cat from Helen Robertson. She had had the cat for a while when it must have been bitten by an animal with rabies, as it went crazy. It came home one day screaming and yelling. It slipped into the house and tried to get into bed with Viva, Donna and her. Papa told them to kick hard and not let it near them. He caught it and thought he had killed it, but it came back. He killed it again or thought he did and put it under a wash tub until morning, when he found it, it was still alive. He killed if for the 3rd time and buried it deep. Donna remembers the same story but with a little different ending. "I don't know what happened to the cat, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that my father never killed that cat.
Wilson remembers one day when his Papa was going out to the hay field which was west of the house. Wilson wanted to go along. His Papa said, “Well then let's go.” So Wilson grabbed his shoes in one hand and an apple in another. When they got to the field Wilson still didn’t have his shoes on. As he was getting his shoes on his Papa was throwing some hay up in the wagon. It hit Wilson and he began to bawl. (I usually stomped the hay down.) Papa got me down and swatted me and told me to go home. I went off through the beet field. I found a bare spot and lie down and fell asleep. Next thing I knew Nolan was looking at me. They told me I had lost one of my shoes, we never did find it.
Nolan remembers that one of the most common meals in the Grant home was bread and milk. His father liked it and Nolan hated it. He remembers having to sit at the table until his bowl was empty. Donna remembers her father as being very stern and strict. Black was black and white was white most of the time, but there were really many sides to him.
New Car
In about 1925 things were going good Morgan had the farm paid off and he bought a brand new car an Essex, two door sedan. Wilson remembers of sometimes going to church in the car, if it wasn't broken down. Wilson remembers going in the car out to Kane to visit Aunt Lita and Uncle Lou Howe and Uncle Oliver May and Aunt Grace. He remembers once going out to two trees (east of Lovell not far from the base of the Big Horn Mountains, these two trees that the area was named for no longer stand) for a picnic. Rosalie remembers going in the car to the foot of the Mountains to take Uncle Henry Fackrell some things. They didn't recognize Uncle Henry as he had grown a full beard.
Next it was Faye's turn on the 21 Feb 1926. Nellie had problems after Faye was born. Alfa had her and the baby come stay with her in town until she recovered. Nellie had an abscess on her breast and didn't have enough milk for the baby. Aunt Grace May had just had a baby not long before and she had plenty of milk and so once a day she would come into town and give the baby a feeding. Morgan and the family missed her and were happy to have her return home.
Papa grew cucumbers one of the years when there was a pickle works near the depot in Lovell. Wilson remembers his Momma and Papa holding up the vines as the kids picked the cucumbers and picked the cucumbers, everyday they picked cucumbers. Rosalia remembers riding in the wagon when her Papa took the cucumbers into town.
Serious Illness
About the middle of October 1926 Morgan became seriously ill. For over a month he hovered between life and death. Dr. Croft told Nellie there was no chance for him to recover, his heart had enlarged to the size of a mans head. This was so hard on the family especially his wife. Rosalia remembers the Dr. giving up and saying there wasn't any thing else he could do for him. The Elders were called. While they were administering to him Aunt Alpha Grant Showalter was there and I remember she had us kids kneel and pray for Papa. It seemed like he started to get better then.
Wilson remembers all the family was farmed out except Nolan, Nell, the baby and maybe Viva. He remembers going and staying with Uncle Allen and Aunt Stella May and their new baby Bernice. He said it seemed like years but was probably only a month or two before he got to go home. At this time when Morgan was so ill he signed the farm over to his wife Nellie on the 4 Nov 1926.
Morgan's strength was gone he had to give up the cows. He hired a man, Fred Wagoner to run the farm the next year.
On May 7, 1928 Elizabeth (Betty) joined the family. Rosalia remembers Papa would take the kids into Grandpa and Grandma May's so they could look at her through Grandpa's bedroom window; they couldn't get near Mama and her as they all had whooping cough.
In 1928 Nolan did a lot of the farm work as his fathers strength had not returned. Morgan did some cultivating, a little irrigating and the beet lifter. Wilson always remembers his Papa as being the one to operate the beet lifter.
In 1929 Morgan's father had moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and he was out of money. Being as he had got a pretty good deal out of the farm he felt obligated to help his father out. He gave his father $2,000 more for the farm on the 10 Aug 1929.
Donna remembers a time when her Mother was very ill (later she realized she had a miscarriage) and in great pain." All the older brothers and sisters were gone. Papa and I took turns rubbing mother’s back for hours and hours until the doctor arrived in the wee small hours of the morning. But what I can't put into words is the compassion and love that father showed for my mother during those long hours. After the Doctor arrived Papa kissed me and sent me to bed. That was the only time I can remember father kissing me. But I went to bed with the certainty that my father truly loved my mother and his family."
Papa is DeadIn 1930 times all over were really tough, there wasn't any money. Morgan had been out looking over the fields when he came back in and suddenly passed away. Some of the children were coming home down the lane when they met Nelliemae running for Robertsons to call the doctor. She tossed them her apron and said, "Papa is dead." Nolan was in town when a neighbor told him his father had passed away. Morgan Jr., Papa, was of medium height and had curly hair. He died at the age of 50 years on the 5 March 1930 on his farm east of Lovell, Wyoming. He was laid to rest in the Lovell Cemetery.
Testimony
In J.M. Grant’s Missionary journal we find his testimony, 2 September 1905,"... I knew that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that all he said was true and I am going to bare my testimony to that effect as long as I live."
This history is a compilation of many sources; some are History of Joseph C. Grant, J. Morgan Grant Jr. Missionary Journal, information from sons Nolan and Wilson, remembrances of daughters.