• Jonathan initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the James McGaw Company in 1852. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming.

James McGaw Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 24
• Head of Household

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 28
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1900 Utah Census.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Gardner, Hamilton. History of Lehi: Including a Biographical Section (Salt Lake City: The Lehi Pioneer Committee, 1913), 110-111.
• "Intermountain Nuggets," Salt Lake Tribune, 31 January 1904, 2.
• James McGaw Emigrating Company Journal in 11th Company of 50 record, 1852 June 17-September 20 in Reports, 1850-1852 in Brigham Young Office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862. 
• Powell, Delna Swapp, Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 , [2002], p. 99, 100, 101, 102
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.