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The following is taken from a talk by Kaye Grant at Catherine Grant's Funeral
In 1906 John Taylor Dick, living in Tooele Utah with a wife and eight children, was called on a mission for the LDS church to Scotland. At the age of 50 years old, John packed his bags and went back to his native homeland of Scotland. While he was there, he converted nine people to the church, among which was the Faulds family. While he was there serving on a mission, his wife back in Tooele wrote him and informed him that she was divorcing him and would not be sending him anymore money. So John ended up moving in with relatives who were still there in Scotland. They supported him while he finished serving his mission.
After his mission, John returned back to Tooele where he continued to do more missionary work, while he grew a vegatable and fruit garden. At one point he paid the way for one of the Fauld's sons, William, to come over to America, namely SLC, Utah. When William arrived John asked him, if he thought his sister Mary Faulds would accept a marriage proposal. William told John to write and ask her. Mary accepted. Mary and her mother came to America, and went straight down to Tooele. John and Mary were civilly married (he was 56, she was 31), because she had to be in America one year before they could be married in the LDS Temple. A year later Catherine was born, and the three of them were sealed together in the Salt Lake Temple.
