Had your grandfather already struck out three times prior to meeting your grandmother? Probably not. I’m sure they were lovely people and I doubt your grandmother married him because of his money, like so many younger women with older men these days.
“...sure they were lovely people and I doubt your grandmother married him because of his money,”
Sure as hell not for money.
He was a Wyoming cowboy, nicknamed Tex by his friends and relatives. Worked a bit in the Cody Wild West show.
Nobody knows for sure if he was even ever in Texas.
He was son of two immigrants from Sweden she was daughter of Mormons who moved from Southern Utah to near the Wyoming-Montana border, where she was born.