MIKE - I understand that Heber J. Grant was an only child, and that his father died 9 days after young Heber was born. In the book "WORDS TO LIVE BY", by Larry E. Morris, page 51, President Grant is quoted as saying "I was waked by my brother, B. F. Grant". How is this possible? Did his father have other wives?

JOEL - From what I have read of Heber J. Grant, he was the only child of his natural mother(Rachel), but he did have other brothers and sisters who had the same last name, born of other plural wives of his father Jedediah M. Grant. But I believe that Heber and his mother lived alone.

According to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism:
"In 1855, Rachel became one of Jedediah's plural wives. Grant eventually married three wives, who bore him twelve children. In addition to Lucy Stringham, he entered into plural marriage with Huldah Augusta Winters and Emily Wells."

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