• Gilbert first traveled to the Valley by way of California, as a discharged member of the Mormon Battalion. He continued on east to Winter Quarters and is seen crossing the plains again in the 1852 Outhouse company, traveling with his wife and young daughter. Only Gilbert's name is listed on the company roster, as head of household. However, the roster also notes that his traveling group consisted of two adults and one child. Many of his other family members (parents and siblings) were also traveling in this company.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 20
• Head of Household

Joseph Outhouse Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 24
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
• "4th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• "4th Company of 50 reports, 1852." In Brigham Young Office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1850-1852.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 21.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.