• His birth and death dates are confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone.  He was re-baptized at Salt Lake City on 22 October 1848.

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 30

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Ephraim Green journal, 1848 June-September and 1849 December.
• Henele Pikale (Henry W. Bigler), "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor, 1 December 1886, 365-66.
• Jonathan H. Holmes diary, 1846-1848.
• "Names of men who wish for land to cultivate who came from California with Jonathan H. Holmes," Land records, circa 1847-1860, Salt Lake (County) Recorder's Office land records, circa 1847-1860.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.