Death and Descendants
Grant contracted pneumonia after his vigorous tour. He died on December 1, 1856, just nine days after his son, Heber J. Grant was born to his wife Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Like many early Latter-day Saints, Jedediah Grant practiced plural marriage. He had a total of seven wives and 13 children. His son Heber J. Grant became the seventh President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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