• The Gibson family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Moses Clawson Company in 1853.  Their family included William and Janet Nicol, and their children Ann Wright, David, Janet, William Jr., and Catherine McFarlane.   Along the trail, Catherine died of Scarlet fever.

  At the end of a mission, William traveled in the John R. Murdock Company in 1862 according to his personal journal.

  At the end of another mission, he traveled home with the Leonard G. Rice Company in 1867 with his deaf son, David, as recorded in William’s personal journal.

Moses Clawson Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 43
• Head of Household

John Riggs Murdock Company (1862)

• Age at Departure: 52
• Returning Missionary

Leonard G. Rice Company (1867)

• Age at Departure: 57
• Returning Missionary

Sources

• "Arrived," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 10 Oct. 1867, 2.
• Gibson, William, Journals, 1841-1874, fd. 3, 194-95.
• Gibson, William, Journals, 1841-1874, fd. 3, 6-7.
• Gibson, William. Journals, 1841-1874, fd. 2, p. 42.
• Memmott, Thomas, Thomas Memmott Journal , ed. H. Kirk Memmott, 2 vols. [1976], 1:81-91.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 150.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 433.
• Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
• "St. Louis Company report, 1853 June 30." In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 25)
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
• William Gibson journals and notebooks, circa 1841-1890, vol. 2, 73-74 and vol. 3, 198.