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Gathering to Zion: \u00a0\u201cHelping the Martin Handcart Company across the Sweetwater River,\u201d by Clark Kelley Price \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two passages from a rough manuscript:<\/p>\n

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Jedediah M. Grant, a counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, had lost his four-month-old daughter Margaret to cholera during the pioneer trek westward to the Great Basin of the Salt Lake on 2 September 1847.\u00a0 She had to be buried in mud, without a coffin.\u00a0 His wife, Margaret\u2019s twenty-eight-year-old mother Caroline, died of the same disease on the Bear River, near modern Evanston, Wyoming, a few weeks later, imploring him in her last words to take her on to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and to bring Margaret to her.\u00a0 Faithfully, Jedediah constructed a coffin from a dismantled wagon bed, placed her body in it, and took it with him for those last agonizing days.\u00a0 Caroline was the first white woman buried in the new settlement of Salt Lake City.\u00a0 On 1 October, the day following her funeral, Jedediah turned around and headed back to retrieve little Margaret\u2019s body from the vicinity of the Sweetwater River, at least a couple of weeks back along the trail.\u00a0 When he arrived at the site, however, he found that wolves had dug up his baby\u2019s body and eaten her.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 His feelings can perhaps be imagined.\u00a0 In 1856, however, just forty years old, he himself was about to die.\u00a0 On his deathbed, he told Heber C. Kimball that he had been over on the other side two nights in succession, where he<\/span><\/p>\n

saw the righteous gathered together in the spirit world, and there were no wicked spirits among them.\u00a0 He saw his wife; she was the first person that came to him.\u00a0 He saw many that he knew, but did not have conversation with any except his wife Caroline.\u00a0 She came to him, and he said that she looked beautiful and had their little child, that died on the Plains, in her arms, and said, \u201cMr. Grant, here is little Margaret; you know that the wolves ate her up, but it did not hurt her; here she is all right.\u201d<\/strong>[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> For the historical background, see Gene A. Sessions, Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant<\/em> (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982), 62-69.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> As recounted by Heber C. Kimball, in Journal of Discourses<\/em>, 4:136 (4 December 1856).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jedediah M. Grant, dying in 1856, said \u201cI have been into the spirit world two nights in succession, and, of all the dreads that ever came across me, the worst was to have to again return to my body, though I had to do it.\u201d[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Speaking at Grant\u2019s funeral, Heber C. Kimball recalled Grant telling him about his returns to the body, and reported that \u201che felt extremely sorrowful at having to leave so beautiful a place and come back to earth, for he looked upon his body with loathing, but was obliged to enter it again.\u201d[2]<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Journal of Discourses<\/em> 4:135 (4 December 1856).<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Journal of Discourses<\/em> 4:136 (4 December 1856).<\/span><\/p>\n

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