Rachel Ridgway Ivins Grant

7 March 1821 — 27 January 1909

1 Born at Hornestown, Monmouth County, New Jersey; daughter of Edith Ridgeway and Caleb Ivins. 2 Baptized, circa 1839. 3 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1842; returned to New Jersey, circa 1844. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1853. 5 Settled at Salt Lake City. 6 Married Jedediah M. Grant as a plural wife, 1855; one child. 7 Widowed, 1856. 8 Appointed president of the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward Relief Society, 1868; served for thirty-five years. 9 Participated in the woman suffrage movement and served on the Central Grain Committee. 10 Died at Salt Lake City. 11 (See Document 3.7, 3.13, 3.16, 3.17, 3.25)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 145/653 (1909), Rachel R. Grant.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 145/653. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Rachel Ridgeway Ivins KWJC-TMD . Frances Bennett Jeppson, “With Joy Wend Your Way: The Life of Rachel Ivins Grant, My Great-Grandmother,” 1952, typescript, p. 1, CHL.

  3. [3] Rachel I. Grant, “How I Became a Mormon,” 1898, typescript, CHL. Jeppson, “With Joy Wend Your Way,” 2–4.

  4. [4] Grant, “How I Became a Mormon,” 2. Jeppson, “With Joy Wend Your Way,” 4, 7–8.

  5. [5] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), Rachel Ridgway Ivins.

  6. [6] Jeppson, “With Joy Wend Your Way,” 10. 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 13, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 637B, Rachel Grant; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611.

  7. [7] “Family Tree,” database, Rachel Ridgeway Ivins.

  8. [8] Ibid.

  9. [9] Thirteenth Ward Relief Society, Minutes, Apr. 18, 1868, vol. 1, 1868–1898, Relief Society Minutes and Records, Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake [Ensign Stake], 1868–1906, CHL. See Ronald W. Walker, “Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy of the Feminine Ideal,” in Supporting Saints: Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons, ed. Donald Q. Cannon and David J. Whittaker (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1985), 18, 31–36.

  10. [10] “Minutes, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 13, 1870,” Deseret Evening News, Jan. 14, 1870, [2]; and Jan. 15, 1870, [2]. “Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the Ladies Co-operative Retrenchment Society,” Feb. 19, 1870, Relief Society Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 1868–1873, Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake [Riverside] Stake, CHL. “General Meeting of Central and Ward Committees,” Woman’s Exponent 5, no. 13 (Dec. 1, 1876): 99.

  11. [11] Utah death certificate, file no. 145/653.