Jedediah Morgan Grant III & Nellie Amelia May
In
1903, Morgan served a mission in Ireland. The two years he spent there were
very special to him throughout his life. He found the food in Ireland to be his
biggest problem and he had always been selective in his 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. At night the missionaries would have to pick the cooties off of
themselves, the sanitation was so bad.
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 a dance 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.
After 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.
Nellie
Amelia May was born in Rockland, Idaho. Nellie spent her childhood on a small
farm where she was required to help with chores, housework and the care of the
younger children in the family. When she turned eight years old on 16 Dec 1893,
her father broke the ice in a creek about one mile from their house where he
baptized her a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In 1905 when she was 18 years old
her parents moved the family to the Big Horn Basin which was being colonized by
the Mormons. They moved in covered wagons traveling through the Yellowstone
Park. She later told her children wonderful stories about the geysers and wild
animals there. She was an exciting story teller and was able to make her
experiences live for others.