When Heber Jeddy Grant was born on 22 November 1856, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Jedediah Morgan Grant, was 40 and his mother, Rachel Ridgeway Ivins, was 35. He married Lucy Stringham on 1 November 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1937 and lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 14 May 1945, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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