Royal B Grant was born 21 October 1888, the son of Jedediah Mill Grant and Annie Kaziah Bowcutt, in Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah and lived there all his life. He was the grandson of Mary Hunsaker and David Grant and the great-grandson of Abraham Hunsaker and Eliza Collins.
Royal B Grant 3 months old
He married Lizzie Viola Nye, who was the daughter of James Nye and Elizabeth Smith of Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho. They were married 12 November 1913 in the Salt Lake Temple. There were seven children born to them: Nora, Beryl, Nye, Elizabeth (twin), Paul Alma (twin), Royce J, Rayford.
Royal B Grant and Lizzie Viola Nye Grant 1912-they were married 1913
The family owned a farm 3 miles west of Honeyville, but lived in town. He worked on the farm and at the Garland Sugar Factory each fall during beet harvest time. Some winter months he spent working in the Bingham and Keetley underground mines.
He built four houses during his lifetime and liked to do carpenter and cement work. Royal worked at the Utah Defense Depot in Ogden during World War II. He also worked at the “Big J” flour mill west of Honeyville for several years. His later years he spent working at the Perry Canning Co., south of Brigham City.
Grant Home in Honeyville, Utah with Nora in window
He really liked to hike the mountains east of Honeyville and knew a lot about the gullies and canyons and had looked over Cache Valley from the Honeyville peak more than once.
He was first counselor in the Young Men’s Organization and Sunday School teacher in the Intermediate Classes in his younger years.
He was blessed with good health until the last ten years of his life.
His wife, Viola, died 1 November 1958 in Brigham City, and Royal passed away 27 October 1969 in the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. They are buried in the Honeyville Cemetery (here and here).
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