Source: 153rd Wellington web site.
Family Search: When James Washington Grant was born on 13 December 1877, in Oil Springs, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, William John Champion Grant, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Cummings, was 17. He married Helen Lindsay on 1 October 1902, in Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Wallace, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as farmer in Cedarville, Southgate, Grey, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 November 1928, in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Rainy River, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 