John Duggan Gibbs, son of Francis Gibbs and Martha Duggan
Born 26 February 1815 at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Married Julia Ann Tompkins, Mary Ann Phillips, Matilda Ann Tompkins, Ann
Jones
Baptized 7 February 1852 by his brother George Duggan Gibbs
Left Wales May 1863 on the ship Cynosure
Arrived in Salt Lake City on 4 October 1863
Settled in Portage, Box Elder County, Utah
Died 28 February 1892
Sources:
Family records and family histories; John Duggan Gibbs' journal; minutes
of Church records from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales; Church records
from a Stake in Brigham City, Utah.
John was ordained an elder 24 May 1852, and for the next eleven years worked as
traveling elder, clerk and counselor, and then as president of the Pembroke
Conference. While sailing from Liverpool to New York City with his wife and
five sons, John presided over one of the six wards on shipboard. He and his
family journeyed to Salt Lake City,Utah in the Thomas Ricks company. Soon
after arriving, they left for Willard, Box Elder County, Utah. While there, he
served as ward teacher; then he presided over the teachers' quorum. He
was a member of the School of the Prophets in Brigham City, and just before
moving to East Portage, Box Elder County, he served as Sunday School
Superintendent. In early 1884 President Wilford Woodruff, then president of
the Twelve Apostles, and Apostle Lorenzo Snow ordained John Duggan Gibbs as a
Patriarch.
