Jedediah M Grant

https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=KWJZ-ZVJ&section=memories Baptism: 2 Mar 1833 also have seen 21 Mar and 22 Mar   He was baptized on 21 March 1833 by John F. Boynton and ordained an elder and a seventy by Joseph  http://signaturebookslibrary.org/lucys-book-biographies/   Name: Jedediah Morgan Grant Gender: Male Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head) Father: Joshua Grant Mother: Athalia Howard [Thalia Howard]  Birth Date: 21 Feb 1816 Birth Place: New York, USA Alternate Birth Places: Broom, New York USA or Windsor, Broome, New York USA or Union, Broome, New York USA Death Date: 1 Dec 1856 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Burial Date: 4 Dec 1856 Burial Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Residences: Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, USA LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: March 21, 1833 Officiator: John F. Boynton Ordained Elder Date: February 28, 1835 Kirtland, Geauga, OH, USA Officiator: Joseph Smith Ordained Elder Date: 1834 Ordained Seventy Date: February 28, 1835 Officiator: Joseph Smith and others LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Endowment Date: December 12, 1845 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Sealed to Parents Date: November 27, 1961 Sealed to Spouse Number 1 Date: January 16, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Sealed to Spouse Number 2 Date: February 11, 1849 Sealed to Spouse Number 3 Date: August 16, 1855 Sealed to Spouse Number 7 Date: November 29, 1855 Vocations: Stockraiser Farmer; 1851 Mayor Speaker of the House of the Territorial Legislature Superintendent of Public Works Comments: In 1850 Jedediah had a household of 4 and a real wealth of $600. Comments: #21. Jedediah is found on the Continuing Church Record at Nauvoo. Comments: #31. Jedediah came to Utah in 1847 with his own company. He was one of the Presidents of the First Council of Seventies in 1845. He was chosen Second Counselor to Brigham Young April 7, 1854. He was the first mayor of Salt Lake City and continued in that office until his death. Jedediah was speaker of the house of the territorial legislature from 1852 to 1855; and superintendent of public works of Salt Lake City. He plowed the first furrow in Morgan county, which county was named after him. Comments: #41. Jedediah went on a preaching mission eastward from Kirtland, Ohio. He had some large meetings and there was opposition from the clergy. He called to God for aid, “And before I cryed he heard and while I was yet speking he did ansur me and sent unto me Elders DC Smith and SH denton and J Grant jr.” He preached in a barn to an overflow crowd and had baptisms. The attempted opposition of one man to the Book of Mormon fizzled out. He baptized twenty-three in Fallsburg. (“I left them all overwhelmed in tears they were all determend to ceep the commandments of the Lord in spite of all the Priests of Bail.") He also visited relatives, some of whom accepted the message. He returned to Ohio. He returned to Missouri in 1838 and found the Saints beleaguered. He left for Illinois with his father and family to “the village of Commerce,” early 1839. He served a mission to North Carolina. In the same volume is the diary of Harvey Stanley, missionary companion of Grant in 1835. Comments: #51. Jedediah was the second counselor to President Brigham Young from 1854 to 1856. In the spring, following his baptism, when he was eighteen years of age, he accompanied “Zion’s Camp” in the wonderful march to Missouri, and the fatigues, privations, trying scenes and arduous labors endured by that handful of valient men exhibited a goodly portion, for one so young, of that integrity, zeal, and unwavering effort and constancy in behalf of the cause of truth, that invariably characterized his life. The experience the young men of this expedition obtained on this memorable journey, was such as few ever pass through in life. While the history of Zion’s Camp has not been fully written, and, like the history of the Latter-day Saints in general, never will be in its fulness, enough is known to show that every man, who carried himself faithfully, without murmuring, through the dangers, diseases and difficulties of that most trying period, was a hero of the first quality and had laid foundation stones of life on which he could forever build. On returning to Kirtland he was ordained an Elder and later a Seventy. In connection with Elder Harvey Stanley he was also appointed to his first preaching mission. They started May 22, 1835, and spent the summer in the labors of the ministry, preaching and baptizing converts. In the winter of 1835-6, Brother Grant assisted in the labors upon the Kirtland Temple, where he received the blessings of the House of the Lord. He was appointed to a mission in the East, but participated, before leaving the Temple, in the great manifestations of the power and glory of God, which characterized the labors there from the time of its dedication, March 27, 1836, until the Elders, who were then called to go on missions, departed for their fields of labor. He was among that happy number who received from the lips of the Prophet much valuable counsel and instruction relating to the duties of the Priesthood. Brother Grant started upon his mission April 13, 1836, going to New York State, where he preached a great deal in many places and raised up a branch of the Church at Fallsburg. He baptized twenty-three persons, among whom was his brother Austin. He returned to Kirtland, March 6, 1837, and remained there until the 6th of the following June, when he commenced a missionary tour to the south-the field in which his greatest missionary labors and achievements were accomplished. He passed through the States of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, etc., and reached North Carolina, where he labored assiduously, proclaiming the gospel in court houses, chapels and other places of assembly as frequently as circumstances permitted. He became extensively known and acquired considerable fame, as an adroit scriptorian and debater, in certain discussions held with Methodist divines whom he never feared nor declined to meet. His uniform success in overthrowing their sophistry and false theology by the forcible and conclusive way he presented the truth, won many friends and some converts. On the conclusion of his mission he returned to Kirtland. Comments: #61. Jedediah labored in New York, together with Harvey Stanley. He also labored as a missionary in North Carolina and the city of Philadelphia.   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=LDSVitalMembership1830-1848&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn=jedidiah+morgan&gsfn_x=NP_NN&gsln=grant&gsln_x=NS_NP_NN&dbOnly=_83004006%7c_83004006_x&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=2&h=35032&recoff=4+5+6+72&ml_rpos=3   Name: Jedediah Morgan Grant Sources: Page 188; Author: _____________________; Title: A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion’s Camp, 29   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=0&h=10341&recoff=3+4+5&ml_rpos=1   Name: Jedediah Morgan Grant Sources: Page 152; Author: Jensen, Andrew; Title: Church Chronology, XXIV - Born 21 February 1816; baptized 21 March 1833; Seventy 28 February 1835; Apostle 1854; died 1 December 1856; Page 160; Author: Nauvoo City; Title: Nauvoo Marriage Records, 1842-1845, 3 July 1844 married Caroline VANDYKE; Page 120; Author: Church of Jesus Christ; Title: History of the Church, 6 volumes. 2:184; 5:303, 369; Page 166; Author: Platt, Lyman D. ; Title: Nauvoo, 1839-1846. 1:7, 147; Ensign July 1979, pag 48 - Family history, Zions Camp, Kirtland, Nauvoo, Captain 34d 100 on Exodus; married Rachel IVINS; Note: Presideing Elder, Philadelphia 2 October 1843   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=1&h=10342&recoff=3+4+5&ml_rpos=2   Name: Jedediah M. Grant Sources: Page 188; Author: _____________________; Title: A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion’s Camp, 93   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=2&h=10339&recoff=3+4+5&ml_rpos=3   Name: Jedediah M. Grant Sources: Page 104; Author: Andrus, Hyrum; Title: Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. A Guide to the Holdings of the Harold B. Lee Library, 160(474-1G); 200 (568(568-A)   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=3&h=10340&recoff=3+4+5&ml_rpos=4   Name: Jedediah Grant Sources: Page 104; Author: Andrus, Hyrum; Title: Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. A Guide to the Holdings of the Harold B. Lee Library, 50(156)   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=4&h=10338&recoff=3+4&ml_rpos=5   Name: Jedadiah Grant Sources: Page 188; Author: _____________________; Title: A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion’s Camp, 97   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=earmornam&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedediah+morgan&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&pcat=37&fh=5&h=10337&recoff=3+4&ml_rpos=6   Grant, Jedediah Morgan, second counselor to President Brigham Young from 1854 to 1856, was the son of Joshua and Thalia Grant, and was born Feb. 21, 1816, in Windsor, Broome county, N. Y., He was baptized March 21, 1833, by John F. Boynton. In the spring of the following year, when he was eighteen years of age, he accompanied “Zion’s Camp” in the wonderful march to Missouri, and the fatigues, privations, trying scenes and arduous labors endured by that handful of valiant men exhibited a goodly portion, for one so young, of that integrity, zeal, and unwavering effort and constancy in behalf of the cause of truth, that in variably characterized his life. The experience the young men of this expedition obtained, on this memorable journey, was such as few ever pass through in life. While the history of Zion’s Camp has not been fully written, and, like the history of the Latter-day Saints in general, never will be in its fulness, enough is known to show that every man, who carried himself faithfully, without murmuring, through the dangers, diseases and difficulties of that most trying period, was a hero of the first quality and had laid foundation stones of life on which he could forever build. On returning to Kirtland, Brother Grant was ordained an Elder, and later (Feb. 28, 1835), he was ordained a Seventy under the hands of Joseph Smith and others. In connection with Elder Harvey Stanley he was also appointed to his first preaching mission. They started May 22, 1835, and spent the summer in the labors of the ministry, preaching and baptizing converts. In the winter of 1835-6, Bro. Grant assisted in the labors upon the Kirtland Temple, where he received the blessings of the House of the Lord. He was appointed to a mission in the East, but participated, before leaving the Temple, in the great manifestations of the power and glory of God, which characterized the labors there from the time of its dedication March 27, 1836, until the Elders, who were then called to go on missions, departed for their fields of labor. He was among that happy number who received from the lips of the prophet much valuable counsel and instruction relating to the duties of the priesthood. Bro. Grant started upon his mission April 13, 1836, going to New York State, where he preached a great deal in many places and raised up a branch of the Church at Fallsburg. He baptized twenty-three persons, among whom was his brother Austin. He returned to Kirtland, March 6, 1837, and remained there until the 6th of the following June, when he commenced a missionary tour to the south—the field in which his greatest missionary labors and achievements were accomplished. He passed through the States of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, etc., and reached North Carolina, where he labored assiduously, proclaiming the gospel in court houses, chapels and other places of assembly as frequently as circumstances permitted. He became extensively known and acquired considerable fame, as an adroit scriptorian and debater, in certain discussions held with Methodist divines whom he never feared nor declined to meet. His uniform success in overthrowing their sophistry and false theology by the forcible and conclusive way he presented the truth, won many friends and some converts. On the conclusion of his mission he returned to Kirtland and made preparations for final [p.57] removal to Missouri. He started Oct. 9, 1838, and arrived at Far West on the 12th of November. He called at this time at Richmond jail to see his brother George D. Grant, to whom he had previously first presented the gospel, and who was then imprisoned with the prophet and others on account of their religious faith. Brother Grant passed through the trials of the expulsion from Missouri, being driven, with his fathers family from Far West to Illinois; they located in Knox county, where Jedediah remained several months preaching and baptizing. In May, 1839, he made a trip to Nauvoo, but hastened to Quincy to attend a conference held there June 1, 1839, at which time be was called on a mission to Virginia and North Carolina. This was the signal for opening the Southern States mission in earnest. With the Elders associated with him, among them his brother Joshua, an extensive field was at once occupied;meetings were held in all available places: baptisms were quite numerous and several large branches were organized. At Burk’s Garden, Tazewell county, Virginia, where Brother Grant made headquarters, a branch of more than sixty members soon sprang up and great interest excited by the populace in the labors of the traveling and local Priesthood. Brother Grant’s name was everywhere spoken of; his ready speech, logical argument, fearless and daring denunciation of sin, powerful exhortations to repentance and testimony of the restoration of the gospel, were taken up by rich and poor, high and low, and commented upon. They won many converts and left impressions on many others which are fresh in their memories even to the present time. Many very interesting episodes marked this active, incessantly laborious period of his life, among others one, which led to a painful and disagreeable accident, resulting in breaking the bones of his nose. The Saints still living in that region remember the striking peculiarities of his ministry and events which made it so successful. Several Elders who have labored in the Southern States of late years have brought with them home many anecdotes about Elder Grant, which show that his memory is still kept sacred among the people of the South. Among these anecdotes we present two which the late Elder Theodore B. Lewis very graphically tells in the “String of Pearls:” “In the early part of President Grant’s ministry in that country, he gained quite a reputation as a ready speaker, frequently responding to invitations to preach from such subjects or texts as might be selected at the time of commencing his sermon, by those inviting him. In time it became a matter of wonder with many as to how and when he prepared his wonderful sermons. In reply to their queries he informed them that he never prepared his sermons as other ministers did. ‘Of course, I read and store my mind with a knowledge of gospel truths,’ said he, ‘but I never study up a sermon.’ Well, they did not believe he told the truth, for, as they thought, it was impossible for a man to preach such sermons without careful preparation. So, in order to prove it, a number of persons decided to put him to test, and asked him if he would preach at a certain time and place and from a text selected by them. They proposed to give him the text on his arrival at the place of meeting, thus giving him no time to prepare. To gratify them he consented. The place selected was Jeffersonville, the seat of Tazewell county, at that time the home of the late John B. Floyd, who subsequently became secretary of war, and many other prominent men. The room chosen was in the court house. At the hour appointed the house was packed to its utmost capacity. Mr. Floyd and a number of lawyers and ministers were present and occupied front seats. Elder Grant came in, walked to the stand and opened the meeting as usual. At the close of the second hymn, a clerk, appointed for the occasion, stepped forward and handed the paper (the text) to Elder Grant, who unfolded it and found it to be blank. Without any mark of surprise, he held the paper up before the audience, and said: ‘My friends, I am here today according to agreement, to preach from such a text as these gentlemen might select for me. I have it here in my hand. I don’t wish you to become offended at me, for I am under promise to preach from the text selected; and if any one is to blame, you must blame those who selected it. I knew nothing of what text they would choose, but of all texts this is [p.58] my favorite one. You see the paper is blank (at the same time holding it up to view). You sectarians down there believe that out of nothing God created all things, and now you wish me to create a sermon from Nothing, for this paper is blank. Now, you sectarians believe in a God that has neither body, parts nor passions. Such a God I conceive to be a perfect blank, just as you find my text is. You believe in a church without prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, etc. Such a church would be a perfect blank, as compared with the Church of Christ, and this agrees with my text. You have located your heaven beyond the bounds of time and space. It exists nowhere, and consequently your heaven is blank, like unto my text. Thus he went on until he had torn to pieces all the tenets of faith professed by his hearers, and then proclaimed the principles of the gospel in great power. He wound up by asking, ‘Have I stuck to the text and does that satisfy you?’ As soon as he sat down, Mr. Floyd jumped up and said: ‘Mr. Grant, if you are not a lawyer, you ought to be one.’ Then turning to the people, he added: ‘Gentlemen, you have listened to a wonderful discourse, and with amazement. Now, take a look at Mr. Grant’s clothes. Look at his coat: his elbows are almost out: and his knees are almost through his pants. Let us take up a collection. As he sat down another eminent lawyer Joseph Stras, Esq., still living in Jeffersonville, arose and said: ‘I am good for one sleeve in a coat and one leg in a pair of pants, for Mr. Grant.’ The presiding elder of the M. E. church, South, was requested to pass the hat around, but he replied that he would not take up a collection for a ‘Mormon’ preacher. ‘Yes you will,’ said Mr. Floyd; ‘Pass it around,’ said Mr. Stras, and the cry was taken up and repeated by the audience, until, for the sake of peace, the minister had to yield. He accordingly marched around with a hat in his hand, receiving contributions, which resulted in a collection sufficient to purchase a fine suit of clothes, a horse, saddle and bridle for Brother Grant, and not one contributor a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, though some joined subsequently. And this from a sermon produced from a blank text. At another time, Elder Grant was challenged by a very eminent Baptist preacher, named Baldwin, to a discussion. Brother Grant consented. The place chosen was the fine, large church of his proud and imperious antagonist. Mr. Baldwin was described to me, as a man, overbearing in his manner—a regular browbeater. When the time came for the discussion, the house was densely crowded. Umpires were chosen, and everything was ready to proceed, when Brother Grant arose and said: ‘Mr Baldwin. I would like to ask you a question before we proceed any farther.’ ‘Certainly so,’ said Baldwin. ‘Who stands at the head of your church in southwest Virginia?’ Mr. Baldwin very quickly and austerely replied, ‘I do, sir; I do.’ ‘All right,’ said Brother Grant; ‘I wished to know that I had a worthy foe.’ Mr. Baldwin looked a little confused for a moment, and then said: ‘Mr. Grant, I would like to ask you, who stands at the head of your church in southwest Virginia?’ Brother Grant arose and with bowed head replied, ‘Jesus Christ, sir.’ The shock was electrical. This inspired answer completely disarmed the proud foe, and the humble servant of God again came off victor.” Having completed his southern mission in 1842, Elder Grant returned to Nauvoo. He left the kind-hearted people of Virginia with tears in their eyes. They had learned the principles of life from his utterances and daily example, and loved him as the messenger of heaven sent to save them. For five days previous to his departure, a protracted series of meetings was held at Burk’s Garden, when hundreds attended and the Elders were kept busy preaching to the large congregations, and baptizing and confirming converts. In June, 1843, Brother Grant went to Philadelphia to preside over the Saints there. He remained in that city, making many valued friends and officiating in the duties of his office, until March, 1844, when he again reached Nauvoo. His stay, however, was short, for on the 9th of the following May he started, in company with Elders Wilford Woodruff and George A Smith, on a preaching expedition through Illinois, the intention being to continue the tour eastward through several States. From this mission, however, he was suddenly recalled, and was in Nauvoo at the time of the martyrdom of the Prophet [p.59] and Patriarch June 27, 1844. He proceeded at once to carry the tidings of this awful tragedy to the Apostles and other Elders in the Eastern States and resumed his station at Philadelphia. Previous to leaving Nauvoo, July 2nd, he was married to Miss Caroline Vandyke, Bishop Newel K. Whitney officiating. His wife accompanied him to Philadelphia. His mission there was made particularly remarkable by the position he took in regard to Sidney Rigdon’s peculiar apostate doctrines and the efforts of his followers to establish his claim to the guardianship of the Church. Certain letters, which Brother Grant Published upon these subjects, were so clear, as were all his writings, and the strictures upon Rigdon’s course so manifestly just, that they at once quelled the fears of the doubling Saints, and exhibited in plainness the true position of the faithful as well as the assumption of the ambitions apostate. In May, 1845, Elder Grant returned to Nauvoo, and in the following winter received the blessings of the House of the Lord, assisting, also, in administering those sacred ordinances to many others. He was chosen and set apart as one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies Dec. 2, 1845, under the hands of Apostles Brigham Young, and others. He was among the first who left Nauvoo in the exodus of 1846, crossing the river in February, and with the body of the Saints turning his back upon the tyrannical oppression of mobs and treacherous friends to seek an asylum of peace in the fastnesses of the mountains of the great West. From Winter Quarters he went east in the Winter of 1846-7, on a short mission, during which he purchased the materials for making a flag, which for several years floated over “the land of the free and the homes of the blest” in Salt Lake City, and was familiarly known as “the mammoth flag.” After transacting important business in the interests of the exodus, he returned, in June, 1847, to the Missouri river, and was appointed captain of the third hundred of the emigrating Saints which he successfully led to Great Salt Lake valley, arriving in the following October. A year after, with characteristic energy and promptness, he went out beyond Fort Bridger with several men and teams to relieve President Willard Richards and company and assist them in. May 26, 1849, he was elected brigadier-general of the first brigade of the Nauvoo Legion, and later (Oct. 23. 1852), he was promoted to the major-generalship of the First Division, which military office he held until his death. He was an efficient officer, valiant, energetic and just. In the difficulties with the Indians he manifested considerable skill, and always was regarded as eminently jealous of the rights of the red men as well as of the safety of the whites. In the fall of 1849, Elder Grant went to the States on business, together with about forty missionaries, who elected him captain of the company. Among the number were Apostles John Taylor, Erastus Snow, Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards, Bishop Edward Hunter, and several other prominent Elders. They had reached the banks of the Platte river some distance west of Fort Laramie and were camped for noon on a cold, wintry day, in a horseshoe bend of the river, when they were attacked by a large war party of the Cheyennes who were painted and equipped for war, on their way out to engage with a hostile band of the Crows. With the utmost energy the animals were got together and fastened, and a line in open rank formed from the river’s bank to face the Indians and prevent them from surrounding the party. The missionaries pursued their way without further molestation. Elder Grant accomplished the object of his mission and returned to the Valley the following year in charge of a merchant train. Great Salt Lake City was incorporated Jan. 19, 1851, and at the first election held under the charter on the first Monday of the next April, Jedediah M. Grant was elected Mayor, which office he magnified in an eminent degree and held uninterruptedly, by the unanimous vote of the people, until his death. During the period of his administration, the first ordinances for the government, safety and general welfare of the people were enacted, forming the basis of the municipal regulations under which the city has grown and prospered to the present time. On the organization of the Territory of Utah, certain officials appointed by the President of the United States found the situation in Utah, on their arrival there, not to their liking; and after a [p.60] few months’ sojourn, during which they did nothing for their own glory, nor for the government or the people, they returned to the East and united in framing a report to the administration at Washington, which grossly misrepresented the people of Utah and contained many outrageous charges against them, calculated to influence public opinion and to prejudice the government officials in their intercourse with the Territory. For the purpose of counteracting whatever evil effects the “runaway judges” report might have and of setting fairly before the country the situation of the people in the mountains—then so isolated and remote from the inhabited part of the continent—Mayor Grant was called to go to Philadelphia and New York, and do what he could to gain the public attention, while he exploded the falsehoods of the judges and set the matter right respecting the new Territorial ward which had been adopted. He addressed some letters to James Gordon Bennett, the elder, which were published in the New York “Herald.” They had an electrical effect. The “report” fell flat and the runaway officials never recovered from the wholesome exposure of their conduct. The New York “Herald” letters, after creating considerable sensation in the great cities and doing most effectual work in Washington, were printed in pamphlet form and widely circulated in the East. A highly characteristic feature of this pamphlet was the introduction of pungent proverbs as head and foot lines on each page, in black type, which were selected with singular discernment for their appropriate relation to the text as well as for their finer humor and superior sense. Brother Grant was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives in the legislative assembly of Utah, in 1852, and at the three subsequent sessions, filling that office with dignity and honor, to the fullest satisfaction of the members over whom he presided. As a legislator he was quick and talented and brought to the lawmaking department a high practical sense of justice and right, which qualified him to propose and render valuable aid in framing wholesome laws for the political and domestic welfare of the community. But his great work, which preserves the memory of President Grant in the hearts of the Latter-day Saints, was in his ecclesiastical calling. In 1854 he was ordained an Apostle and chosen and set apart to be second counselor in the First Presidency, succeeding Willard Richards in that calling. In this position he was distinguished for the burning zeal that seemed to fire his bosom and keep him ever at work dispensing the blessings of the gospel to the people and awakening within them that enthusiasm and sincerity necessary to the faithful believer in pursuing the life of a Saint, and which was ever exemplified in the career of Brother Grant. His zeal hardly had bounds, except those of the God-given intelligence which preserved him from fanaticism, but he loved the work of the Lord with his whole heart and dedicated without reserve his might, mind and strength to its accomplishment. The exemplary faith and devotion of such a man inspired his fellows to efforts of godliness that they would never dream of if left to themselves, and this quality so preeminently displayed by Brother Grant, brought him to the front as the main leader, under the counsel of president Young, of the Great Reformation of 1856-7. The last six months of his life he labored indefatigably and beyond his physical strength in starting and rolling on that famous revival which kindled a fire in the midst of Zion that was joyfully felt by the Saints the whole world over, and caused sinners to tremble and many to flee from the habitations of the Saints. The thousands who responded to the eloquent appeal of this inspired speaker as he journeyed from town to town, proclaiming the truth to the people, is the best evidence of his power that could be given. Among the reforms urged were cleanliness of person and property, repentance and confession of wrongs committed between man and man, according to the Church law governing offences, and a very great deal was said in regard to training children in habits of industry, to make them self-reliant and independent. Restitution for wrongs done was required, and the people were urged to purify themselves from every shadow or stain of evil doing, that they might participate in the blessings of the sacrament and other ordinances worthily. The spirit [p.61] of the Reformation was one of humility and mutual forgiveness rather than of strict discipline or law. There were comparatively few excommunications, but there was a universal revival of spiritual life and energy, such as the Saints had never before witnessed in the Church. The pre-eminently useful labors of President Grant in the reformation exhausted the vital force of his strong constitution, and were followed by a brief and severe illness, from which he was unable to recover. His prostration caused gloom among the people, but was made the occasion to him of receiving, before death, some of the most remarkable manifestations that are ever given to men in the flesh. At Elder Grant’s funeral Heber C. Kimball gave the following account thereof: “I will not stoop to the principle of death. I could weep, but I will not. There is a spirit in me that rises above that feeling, and it is because Jedediah is not dead. I went to see him one day last week, and he reached out his hand toward me. He could not speak, but he shook hands warmly with me. * * * I laid my hands upon him and blessed him, and asked God to strengthen his lungs that he might be easier; and in two or three minutes he raised himself up and talked for about an hour as busily as he could, telling me what he had seen and what he understood, until I was afraid he would weary himself, when I arose and left him. He said to me: “Brother Heber, I have been into the spirit world two nights in succession, and of all the dreads that ever came across me, the worst was to have to again return to my body, though I had to do it. ‘But oh,’ says he, ‘the order and government that were there. When in the spirit world, I saw the order of righteous men and women; I beheld them organized in their several grades, and there appeared to be no obstructions to my vision; I could see every man and woman in their grade and order. I looked to see if there was any disorder there, but there was none; neither could I see any death, nor any darkness, disorder or confusion.’ He said that the people he saw were organized in family capacities, and when he looked at them, he saw grade after grade, and all were organized and in perfect harmony. He would mention one item after another, and say, ‘Why, it is just as Brother Brigham says it is; it is just as he has told us many a time.’ He saw the righteous gathered together in the spirit world, and there were no wicked spirits among them. He saw his wife Caroline, who was the first person that came to him. He saw many that he knew, but did not have conversation with any but his wife. She came to him, and he said that she looked beautiful and had their little child that died on the plains, in her arms. She said, ‘Mr. Grant, here is little Margaret; you know the wolves ate her up, but it did not hurt her; here she is all right.’ ‘To my astonishment,’ he said, ‘when I looked at families, there was a deficiency in some; there was a lack, for I saw families that would not be permitted to come and dwell together, because they had not honored their calling here.’ He asked his wife, where Joseph and Hyrum and Father Smith and others were. She replied, ‘They have gone away ahead, to perform and transact business for us.’ He also spoke of the buildings he saw there, remarking that the Lord gave Solomon wisdom and poured gold and silver into his hands, that he might display his skill and ability; and said that the temple erected by Solomon was much inferior to the most ordinary building he saw in the spirit world. ‘In regard to gardens,’ said Brother Grant, ‘I have seen good gardens on this earth, but I never saw any to compare with those that were there. I saw flowers of numerous kinds, and some with fifty or a hundred different colored flowers growing on one stalk.’ We have many kinds of flowers on the earth, and I suppose those very articles came from heaven, or they would not be here.’ Some may marvel at my speaking about these things, for many profess to believe that we have no spiritual existence. But do you not believe that my spirit was organized before it came to my body here? And do you not think there can be houses and gardens, fruit trees and every other good thing there? The spirits of those things are made as well as our spirits, and it follows that they can exist upon the same principles. After speaking of the gardens and the beauty of everything there, Brother Grant said that he felt extremely sorrowful at having to leave so beautiful a place and come [p.62] back to earth, for he looked upon his body with loathing, but was obliged to enter it again.” This imperfect account of the wonderful vision of those two nights as related by Elder Kimball was listened to with rapt attention by the large audience, and was repeated for years after by many who heard it. A profound sensation was produced by its narration, for it unfolded to many minds details of the glory of the spirit world that they had not realized from reading the general expressions in which the revelations tell of them. President Grant breathed his last, Dec. 1, 1856, and his spirit went joyfully to mingle with those of his friends, family and brethren who had gone before. He was forty years of age when he died, but had spent those years to such advantage in laboring for the welfare of his fellow men that he was mourned by thousands, and left in their memories a name that will be forever cherished as a symbol of virtue, integrity and honor. The editor of the “Deseret News,” in closing his obituary, says: “Brother Grant needs no eulogy, and least of all such an one as our language could portray, for his whole life was one of noble and diligent action upon the side of truth, of high toned and correct example to all who desire to be saved in the Kingdom of our God. As a citizen, as a friend, a son, a husband, a father, and above all as a Saint, and in every station and circumstance of life, whether military, civil, or religious, he everywhere, and at all times, shed forth the steady and brilliant light of lofty and correct example, and died, as he lived and counseled, with his ‘armor on and burnished.’ Though the Saints deeply feel his departure, yet they can fully realize that it redounds to his and our infinite gain.” (For further particulars see “Contributor,” Vol. 4; “Millennial Star,” Vol. 19, p. 185, Vol. 42, p. 755; Faith Promoting Series, Book 2, pp. 43-52.)   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ldsbio&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=jedidiah&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42   Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints B Big Horn Stake In 1893 a company of Latter-day Saints in search of new homes, hailing mostly from Ashley Valley, Uintah Co., Utah, arrived in the Big Horn country, Wyoming, and immediately founded the settlement of Burlington, on the Grey Bull River. In 1900 an organized immigration into the Big Horn country took place under the leadership of the late Apostle Abraham O. Woodruff, and the settlements of Byron, Cowley and Leavitt, and others, came into existence, and were organized into a stake of Zion, May 26, 1901, called the Big Horn Stake. Byron Sessions was chosen as president of the stake, with Jesse W. Crosby, jun., as first, and Charles A. Welch as second counselor. Brother Sessions was succeeded in 1910 by Willam C. Partridge, who in 1916 was succeeded by Edward W. Croft, who presided over the Big Horn Stake Dec. 31, 1930. Following is a list of the counselors in the stake presidency, also the stake clerks: First counselors: Jesse W. Crosby, jun., 1901–1910; Edward W. Croft, 1910–1916; Richard C. May, 1916–1921, and Brigham L. Tippetts, jun., 1921–1930. Second counselors: Charles A. Welch, 1901–1910; Richard C. May, 1910–1916; Brigham L. Tippetts, jun., 1916–1921; Albert Olson, 1921–1930, and Sterling Johnson, 1930. Stake clerks: Jedediah Morgan Grant, 1901–1903; Emanuel B. Thomas, 1903–1910; Clarence L. Fancher, 1910–1912; Charles Gold Welch, 1912–1926, and Archie R. Boyack, 1926–1930. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints C Chuichupa Ward At a conference held in Commerce (Nauvoo, Ill.) October 6, 1840, the Church voted to commence the erection of a temple, and a committee, consisting of Alpheus Cutler, Elias Higbee and Reynolds Cahoon, was appointed to carry the business into operation and oversee the work. Shortly afterwards the Prophet employed Wm. Weeks, a convert from Massachusetts and an expert architect, to serve as architect and draughtsman under his direction. Wm. Weeks continued to act in this supervisory capacity until the Nauvoo Temple was completed in 1846, and in 1847 he, with his family, came to Great Salt Lake Valley, arriving in the Old Fort with Jedediah M. Grant’s company in September of that year. But he chafed at the necessary regulations that had to be enforced in a pioneer settlement in an Indian country, and returning east the next year, was finally excommunicated from the Church. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints D Delta As early as 1837 Latter-day Saint missionaries labored in the state of Delaware, Elder Jedediah M. Grant being among the first. It belonged from the beginning to the Eastern States Mission and Wilmington was in early days an important rendezvous for missionaries in that and adjacent states. Delaware has been a fruitful missionary field and still belonged to the Eastern States Mission in 1930. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints G Grantsville 1st Ward Grantsville was settled by Latter-day Saints in 1851, Thomas Watson and James Wrathall being among the first settlers, who in 1852 built a fort as a protection against the Indians. Grantsville was originally called Willow Creek, but later named Grantsville in honor of George D. Grant, a brother of the late Jedediah M. Grant. Benjamin Baker was the first presiding Elder of the settlement; he was succeeded in 1853 by Thomas H. Clark, who in 1858, after the ‘Move”, was succeeded by William Goodall Young, who in 1864 was succeeded by Thomas H. Clark (serving a second term). Pres. Clark died Oct. 14, 1873, and was succeeded by William Jefferies, who presided until June 24, 1877, when the Grantsville Branch was organized into a bishop’s ward with Edward Hunter as Bishop. He was succeeded in 1888 by William C. Collett, who in 1895 was succeeded by James L. Wrathall, who in 1906 was succeeded by August K. Anderson, who presided until March 29, 1914, when Grantsville was divided into two wards, namely, Grantsville 1st and Grantsville 2nd wards, the dividing line between the two wards being Hale Street, which runs north and south through the center of the town. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints L Liverpool Conference LITTLETON, Morgan Stake, Morgan Co., Utah, is a small settlement situated on Deep Creek. Thos. Jefferson Thurston was the first white settler in that part of Morgan County known as Littleton. In company with Pres. Jedediah M. Grant and Jesse C. Little, he took up land on the south side of the Weber River in 1856; a townsite was soon afterwards surveyed by Jesse W. Fox and named Littleton in honor of Jesse C. Little. Here Bro. Thurston and his family resided for a time, and other settlers came to the location. When Morgan County was organized in 1866, Littleton was named as the county seat, but the overflowing of Deep Creek discouraged the settlers, and in 1868 the judicial offices were moved to Morgan City, and Littleton was practically deserted. Thos. J. Thurston presided over the settlement from the beginning, or until 1865, when Willard G. Smith was called to act as Bishop of Littleton and the adjacent settlements. Littleton later became part of the Milton Ward. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints M Maryland Conference In 1837 Elders Erastus Snow and William Bosley, traveling as missionaries in the New England States, labored for a short time in Washington County, Maryland, and later in the year Erastus Snow labored for nine months in Franklin and Bedford counties, Md., and raised up a branch of the Church. In that year also Jedediah M. Grant preached in Maryland, Delaware, New York, and other states, and baptized a number of converts. Other missionaries followed. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints M Minersville Ward Thos. Jefferson Thurston was the first white settler in that part of Weber Valley which is now embraced in the Milton Ward. Accompanied by Jedediah M. Grant and Jesse C. Little he came into the valley in 1856, with a view of locating a cattle ranch, and these three brethren laid claim to several hundred acres of land lying between Line Creek (where Milton is located) and Deep Creek (where Littleton is situated). Thos. J. Thurston built a cabin and brought his family to the district, which later became Littleton, but in 1860 he moved to Milton. In 1861 a number of Scandinavians came to Milton and located on the townsite, which had been named in honor of A. Milton Musser, and Bro. Thurston gave to each family a building lot and from five to ten acres of land. Hulda Cordelia Thurston, Bro. Thurston’s daughter, opened a school, where she taught these foreign-born children (and many of their parents) to read and write the English language. A log school house was built in the fall of 1864, which served for all public gatherings until 1868, when a substantial sandstone building was erected for the same purpose. Thos. J. Thurston had charge of ecclesiastical affairs in the district until 1865, when Willard G. Smith was called by Pres. Brigham Young to locate in Weber Valley and preside as Bishop over the saints residing on the south side of the river. He appointed Lars P. Christensen to take charge in Milton, but in July, 1875, a regular branch organization was effected there 201—Encyc. Hist. of Church EGS with Jens Hansen as presiding Elder. When the Morgan Stake was organized July 1, 1877, Milton became a ward with Eli Whitear as Bishop. He was succeeded in 1888 by Joseph Lyman Mecham, who was succeeded in 1893 by Wm. Giles, who was succeeded in 1921 by Joseph F. Spendlove, who was succeeded in 1926 by Joseph Lyman Mecham, jun., who was succeeded later the same year by Herbert J. Whittier, who presided over the Ward Dec. 31, 1930. On that date the ward had 207 members, including 51 children. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints M Morgan Stake of Zion After the arrival of the Utah pioneers in Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847 a number of settlers made their homes in what is now known as Davis County, Utah. It is said that Thomas Jefferson Thurston of Centerville, in getting timber from the mountains east of that settlement, caught a glimpse of the beautiful Weber Valley and could not rest until he had explored further. In 1855 he prevailed upon his son-in-law, Charles S. Peterson, to head a company to travel up Weber Canyon and explore the valley beyond. The late Jedediah M. Grant becoming interested in the project, sent three men with teams to assist in making a road through Weber Canyon. The Utah Legislature, by act approved Jan. 2, 1856, granted to Jedediah M. and George Grant and Thomas Jefferson Thurston a large section of land in Weber Valley for a herd ground, and Bro. Thurston moved his family there the same year. Other settlers joined them, and in 1862 Morgan County was organized and so named in honor of Jedediah Morgan Grant, who had taken so much interest in its settlement. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints M Morgan (South Morgan) Ward Richard Fry arrived in Utah from England in 1860, and in the fall of the same year settled about half a mile west of the present center of South Morgan. Richard Norwood and Daniel Bull joined him and all built cabins, and, with their families, spent the winter of 1860–1861 there. Other settlers followed and a townsite was surveyed in 1864, called Morgan in honor of Jedediah Morgan Grant who, in 1856, had located a claim in the valley. In 1868 Morgan became an incorporated city, and the same year, the county seat was transferred from Littleton to Morgan City. In 1868 the Union Pacific Railroad was completed through Morgan and the city has since become an important railroad station and distributing center for the surrounding country. This year also a bridge was built across the Weber River, thus uniting North Morgan with South Morgan. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints N New Mexico Conference Elders Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson are said to have introduced the restored gospel into the state of New Jersey in 1832. In the year 1837 Elders Parley P. Pratt, Benjamin Winchester and Jedediah M. Grant in their missionary travels preached and baptized in New Jersey and in the following year (1838) Elder Benjamin Winchester raised up a branch of the Church there. In 1839 a branch of the Church in Shrewsbury (Monmouth Co.) is mentioned and saints were living at Hornerstown (Monmouth Co.) and at Toms River (Ocean Co.). In 1840 Wm. I. Appleby, a resident of Recklesstown (Burlington Co.), was baptized and became an enthusiastic missionary. Later he became presiding Elder over the saints in the Eastern States and made his home at Recklesstown mission headquarters. A number of branches were raised up by him in New Jersey. Missionary labors in New Jersey are still conducted under the direction of the presidency of the Eastern States Mission. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints N North Carolina Conference Jedediah M. Grant, in 1838, introduced the restored gospel into the state of North Carolina. He met with great success, and as he was not able to fill his appointments by traveling on foot, interested persons subscribed $100 to purchase a horse and buggy for him. He was joined in 1839 by his brother Joshua Grant, and the two Elders reported about 40 baptisms and more calls for preaching than they could possibly fill; branches of the Church had been raised up in Surry and Stokes counties. Jedediah M. Grant was followed by other efficient missionaries, and in 1876 Elder George Teasdale labored with considerable success in Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N. C. He reported that the condition of the country, owing to changes caused by the Civil War, was deplorable. There being no longer any slave labor, once prosperous cotton plantations and farms were overgrown with weeds, and the once wealthy landowners were in an almost starving condition. But, as a rule, they treated the Elders with generous hospitality. At other places in the country, however, this kindness was not shown, and on Sunday morning, July 20, 1879, some of the brethren and sisters at Brasstown, Clay County, N. C. were turned out of their homes and ordered to leave the state on pain of greater violence and perhaps death, if they refused. The mob swore that if the saints entertained Elders, it would be at the peril of their lives. This broke up the branch at Brasstown, many of these persecuted saints going to the state of Georgia. In 1879, also, Elders Hulse and Lloyd, two other missionaries, left North Carolina on account of unsettled conditions, and Elder Joseph Hyrum Parry and two other Elders were, about this time, severely whipped by the mobs. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints P Pennsylvania After the organization of the Church in 1830 one of the first branches of the Church raised up was that at Columbia, Bradford Co., Penn. The members of this branch were the first in the Church who received the gift of tongues. Among the early missionaries who visited this branch were Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Phineas H. Young. Other missionaries who labored in Pennsylvania soon after the organization .of the Church were Orson Hyde, Samuel H. Smith, John F. Boynton, Evan Greene, Sidney Rigdon, Erastus Snow, Freeman Nickerson and Lorenzo D. Barnes, and branches of the Church were raised up in Erie, Indiana, and in Armstrong, Bedford and Beaver counties, Penn. In 1837 there were about one hundred members of the Church in western Pennsylvania, and in December, 1839, the Prophet Joseph Smith and Elder Sidney Rigdon preached in one of the largest churches in Philadelphia to an audience of about three thousand people. Elder Parley P. Pratt reported in November, 1839, that there was a flourishing branch of the Church in Philadelphia, where the presiding Elder, Benjamin Winchester, had hired a good hall in which the Elders preached to crowded audiences. Bro. Winchester also began, in 1841, the publication of the “Gospel Reflector,” a semi-monthly periodical published in the interest of the Church; but in 1843 he became disaffected and the publication of the magazine ceased. Elder Winchester was succeeded in the presidency of the Philadelphia Branch by Elder Jedediah M. Grant, father of Pres. Heber J. Grant. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints S Southern States Mission In 1839 and 1840 Elder Jedediah M. Grant introduced the restored gospel to Burkes Garden, Virginia, at which time he read from a manuscript of the prophecy of the Prophet Joseph Smith concerning the Civil War, which was ridiculed, but many of his hearers lived to see the prophecy fulfilled. In 1839, also, missionary work was commenced in the state of Mississippi by Benjamin L. Clapp and others, and in 1846 a company of seventeen families, in charge of Wm. Crosby, migrated from Mississippi westward to Pueblo, Colo., where they spent the winter of 18461847, and entered the Great Salt Lake Valley the next year (July 29, 1847), five days after Pres. Brigham Young’s arrival in the Valley. In 1875 Henry G. Boyle of Pima, Arizona, laboring as a missionary in Tennessee, established a branch of the Church at Shady Grove, Hickman Co., Tenn., and having reported an opening there for more missionaries, Elders George Teasdale, David P. Rainey, Joseph Standing, John Morgan, John D. T. McAllister, David Perry and John R. Winder were called at a conference held in Salt Lake City in October, 1875, to labor in the Southern States under the direction of Elder Boyle. The mission was to consist of the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia. A number of converts were made, many of whom migrated to Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, uniting with the saints in these districts. San Luis Valley, Colo., was largely settled by saints from the Southern States. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints S Sugar House Ward At an important meeting held April 23, 1854, the saints on Canyon Creek were organized as a ward called the Sugar House Ward, after the Sugar House, which was then in course of erection. Abraham O. Smoot, who had been called away from Cottonwood by Pres. Brigham Young to superintend the erection of the building mentioned and to take charge of the adjacent Forest Farm, was appointed Bishop of the new ward. Bishop Smoot, who had been elected mayor of Great Salt Lake City in 1857 to fill the unexpired term of the late Jedediah M. Grant, removed to the city and Ira Eldredge succeeded him as Bishop of the Sugar House Ward. Bishop Eldredge died Feb. 6, 1866, after which William C. A. Smoot was chosen as acting Bishop. He acted in that capacity until July 23, 1877, when he was succeeded by Apollos G. Driggs, who in 1900 was succeeded by Millen M. Atwood, who in 1905 was succeeded by John M. Whitaker, who in 1914 was succeeded by William L. Hansen, who in 1919 was succeeded by LeGrand Richards, who in 1925 was succeeded by Thomas M. Wheeler, who acted as Bishop of the ward Dec. 31, 1930. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints V Virginia Missionary work in the state of Virginia was commenced as early as 1832, but it was confined to that part of the state which later became West Virginia. (See West Virginia.) Under date of Dec. 15, 1840, Elder Jedediah M. Grant wrote that he and his brother Joshua had been laboring during the past seventeen months in North Carolina and in Patrick, Grayson, Wythe, Smyth and Washington counties in Virginia, and that they had raised up a branch of 80 members in Rich Valley, Smyth Co. Other missionaries followed, and in September, 1842, three more branches of the Church, namely, Little Nauvoo (Wythe Co.), with 31 members, Rich Valley (Smyth Co.), with 24 members, and Burkes Garden (Tazewell Co.), with 60 members, were reported. Several converts from these and other branches in Virginia migrated to Nauvoo, Ill. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints W Washington (D.C.) In 1852 Apostle Orson Pratt was called to labor as a missionary in Washington, D.C., and also to preside over the saints in the Eastern States. Later in the year he was joined by Jedediah M. Grant, and together they interviewed Pres. Millard Fillmore. View Full Context Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Z Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution The company started from New Portage on the 8th for Missouri. They traveled by way of Chippeway, Mansfield, and Richfield, in Ohio, Vandalia in Indiana, Decatur and Jacksonville in Illinois; crossed the Mississippi River into Missouri, into the Salt River country and arrived in Clay County, Missouri, June 16th. On their arrival at this point they found the Missourians excited and prepared to oppose the Camp. A terrific storm saved the brethren, but cholera broke out among them from which many suffered most severely, and thirteen of the members of Zion’s Camp died. Finally a revelation was given—the revelation on Fishing River—in which the Lord said that the time had not come for the redemption of Zion, i.e., for the saints to return to their homes in Jackson County. But the Lord said He had accepted the sacrifice made by His faithful servants in undertaking the long march from the East to assist their fellow-religionists. Consequently, Zion’s Camp was disbanded and soon afterwards most of the members returned to the East, while a few, such as Wilford Woodruff and others, engaged in missionary labors. Some of the brethren constituting the membership of Zion’s Camp murmured on several occasions during the journey, and were much disappointed at the apparent failure of the expedition, but it gave an opportunity for the Church leaders to find out what element to be relied upon was found in the Church even at that early day. When the members of Zion’s Camp were called together in February, 1835, to receive special blessings, twelve men, nearly all former members of Zion’s Camp, were chosen to constitute the first Quorum of Twelve Apostles and seventy others from the same band were chosen to constitute the First Quorum of Seventy. It may be said that from the time of Zion’s Camp until Pres. Wilford Woodruff’s death in 1898, members of Zion’s Camp were numbered among the general authorities of the Church, including such men as Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Jedediah M. Grant, Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Charles C. Rich, Joseph Young, Willard Snow, Lorenzo D. Barnes, Zebedee Coltrin, Luke S. Johnson, and Lyman E. Johnson. For many years after the saints settled in Utah, the members of Zion’s Camp held annual reunions, which were always very enjoyable and it also reminded all participants of the Missouri , persecutions and the terrible trials through which the early members of the Church passed. (See Historical Record, Vol. 7, pp. 577–591.)   From http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=enclds&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=jedediah&gsln=grant&MSAV=1&uidh=m42&gsfn_x=NP_NN&gsln_x=NN    

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