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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 May 1817
Death Date
1 August 1886
Gender
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Henry Bailey Jacobs

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  • The Jacobs family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Company in 1848.  The Jacobs family consisted of Henry and Zina Diantha Huntington, their sons Zebulon, and Henry Chariton, and Henry’s second wife Aseneth Babcock.

    Henry was a Captain of Ten, and his travel to Utah is confirmed by the obituary of his son, Henry Chariton Jacobs.

Brigham Young Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 31
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Aseneth Jacobs (Age: 22)
  • Zebulon Jacobs (Age: 6)

Sources

  • A Mormon chronicle: the Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks (1955), 1:30-79.
  • "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
  • John D. Lee, Diary