 1857 - 1908 (51 years) Submit Photo / Document
Has 2 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Emily Harris Wells |
| Birth |
22 Apr 1857 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
9 Sep 1872 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
KW8F-MZ2 |
| Death |
25 May 1908 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
27 May 1908 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I88102 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Daniel Hamner Wells, b. 27 Oct 1814, Trenton, Oneida, New York, United States d. 24 Mar 1891, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Martha Givens Harris, b. 27 Mar 1832, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States d. 12 May 1908, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Sep 1849 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F29703 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Heber Jeddy Grant, b. 22 Nov 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 14 May 1945, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
27 May 1884 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Martha Deseret Grant, b. 21 Apr 1886, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 18 Sep 1970 (Age 84 years) |
| | 2. Grace Grant, b. 21 Dec 1889, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 24 Jan 1973 (Age 83 years) |
| | 3. Daniel Wells Grant, b. 21 Nov 1891, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 10 Mar 1895 (Age 3 years) |
| | 4. Emily Grant, b. 5 Jun 1896, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 31 Jul 1929, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 33 years) |
| | 5. Frances Marion Grant, b. 23 Sep 1899, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 17 Nov 1995, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 96 years) |
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| Family ID |
F29701 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 22 Apr 1857 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 9 Sep 1872 - EHOUS |
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| Marriage - 27 May 1884 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 25 May 1908 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Burial - 27 May 1908 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- Emily and Grant were five months apart in age and from Emily's birth s h e had been Grant's next-door neighbor. They were among the most promine n t young orators in Salt Lake society in the 1870s, both connected wit h th e "Wasatch Literary Association", and Grant was a counselor to Emily 's br other in the 13th Ward YMMIA presidency. The marriage of Grant an d Emil y was expected by all who knew them. However, Emily then announce d public ly her opposition to polygamy. This caused a falling-out betwee n Grant an d Emily.
Emily was a full-sister of Briant H. Wells, who was a Major General in t h e United States Army. Another of her brothers, Heber M. Wells, later t h e first governor of the state of Utah, stayed with her for part of th e ti me of her exile in Manassa, Colorado
Emily attended the University of Deseret. For a time she was a school te a cher. In 1883, Grant asked Emily to marry him, which considering she h a d not renounced her dislike for polygamy and he was already married t o Lu cy was in many ways a very daring move on his part. She initially de cline d his request. Emily had a change of heart and she and Grant marrie d on M ay 27, 1884. Since the Edmunds Act had been enacted in 1882, the s ituatio n of Mormon polygamists was far worse than it had been a decade e arlier w hen Emily had first renounced polygamy. To avoid Grant having t o go to pr ison on charges of unlawful cohabitation, Emily went to Englan d to live a t the LDS mission home to have her first Child. She returne d to the Unite d States 16 months later and moved between multiple locati ons in Utah Ter ritory and Idaho to avoid capture.
In 1889, to avoid being forced to testify in pending unlawful cohabitati o n charges against her husband, Emily went to Manassa, Colorado, where s h e stayed for a year and a half. Grant accompanied her on the train-rid e f rom Pueblo to Manassa, having been on a different train on the previo us p art of the journey to avoid arrest. Grant stayed two weeks, settin g up fo r Emily the most comfortable house in the town, and leaving hi s m other t o help Emily. She remained in Manassa until March 1891 when s he returne d to Salt Lake City.
Emily and Grant were the parents of four daughters and a son. The son, D a niel Wells Grant, died while he was still a Child. Emily's last Child w a s born in 1899 when she was 42, the same year Grant pleaded guilty to u nl awful cohabitation and paid a $100 fine.
Emily accompanied Grant when he served as mission president in England , b ringing her four daughters plus two of Lucy's daughters. Due to thei r dau ghters' presence, the Grants relocated the mission home to a more r espect able part of Liverpool.
Emily developed stomach cancer in 1907 which caused her death in 1908 . A t the time of her death she was considered one of the most prominen t wome n in Salt Lake City.
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