• Thomas initially made the trip to the Valley as a child with his family. However, several years later he returned to the East for a visit to the area where he was born and married. He returned to Utah with his wife in 1861.

John S. Higbee/James W. Bay Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 13

David H. Cannon Company (1861)

• Age at Departure: 22
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1st Company of 50 reports, 1852, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
• Bartlett Tripp journal, 1861 May-August, 1-25.
• "Capt. D. H. Cannon's Train," The Mountaineer , 13 July 1861, 162.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Jones, Thomas J., History of the Family of Thomas J. Jones, 3.
• Jones, Thomas Jefferson, Autobiographical sketch, in St. George Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, 1872-1906, reel 6039, 208, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970.
• Jones, Thomas Jefferson, Autobiographical sketch 1911, 1-2.
• "Overton: Obituary," Washington County News, 30 July 1914, 5.
• Utah Death Certificates.  
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.