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Show MRS. E. A. GIBBS WAS PIONEER OF UTAH; Crossed the Plains With First Band of Women Immigrants and Lived ! in the Old Fort. I Mrs. Eliza A. Bouck Gibbs. widow of i the late Gideon II. C. Gibbs. the notice of , whose death appeared in yesterday's Ttle-gram, Ttle-gram, was one of the earliest settlers in Utah. She Joined the Mormon church at Canton, Mich., In 1S42, and moved with her parents to Nauvoo the same year. In the exodus she went to Winter Quarters Quar-ters and from there she came West across i the plains with "President John Taylor's i company, and arrived in Salt Lake valley on September 2i;. 1S47. She lived at the old fort until 1M9 when she moved to 123 North Fourth West street, where she remained re-mained to the time of her death. |