• Jacob began his 1850 journey to the Salt Lake Valley with the Markham company, but due to the severity of the cholera outbreak among that group, he broke off and joined the Woodruff company. 

  At the end of a mission to England, Jacob returned home in the Horace S. Eldredge Company in 1858, as indicated in James Palmer’s Reminiscences and the Missionary Record Index.  He traveled on the steam boat “Florida” to Florence (Winter Quarters), Nebraska.  Once there, he waited two weeks for the Horace S. Eldredge Company to arrive.  On 1 June 1858 he left for the Salt Lake Valley.

Stephen Markham Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 36

Wilford Woodruff Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 36

Horace S. Eldredge Company (1858)

• Age at Departure: 44

Sources

• Book of the generations of Jacob Gibson, 1849-1881, 43-45, 76-77.
• Book of the generations of Jacob Gibson, 1849-1881.
• James Palmer reminiscences, circa 1884-1898, 177, 183-85.
• Wilford Woodruff journal, 1847 January-1853 December, 25-77.