Susan Noble

She was baptized at the age of 8 in a good home and was true to it.

  Grant, Susan, a member of the General Board of Relief Society from Oct. 10, 1892, to her death March 11, 1914, was born July 25, 1832, at Sheldon, N.Y., a daughter of Charles Fairchild and Eunice Noble. She was acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio, and in Nauvoo, Ill., and when eleven years of age, in times of danger, was entrusted with secret messages between the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith. She was a Utah pioneer of 1847 and on Nov. 5, 1848, was married to Jedediah M. Grant and became the mother of three children. She also reared two other children. After the death of her husband, Dec. 1, 1856, she made her home in West Bountiful, where she presided over the Relief Society from 1878 to 1885, and was president of the Davis Stake Relief Society from 1886 to 1892.¹ 

Susan was adopted by her grandparents, Ezekiel Noble and Theodocia Bates. Her natural parents were Charles Fairchild and Eunice Noble.² Her uncle Joseph Bates Noble was her guardian.

Sources

  1 Jenson, Andrew. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2028/records/3757   2 Black, Susan Easton, compiler. Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1989. Private Donor. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5333/records/66469