John D. Gibbs and family emigrated to Utah. We arrived in Salt Lake 4 October 1865. We have no dates of his marriage, birth, etc. I remember Mary Ann, Charles Francis. He was a shoemaker. Mary Ann, I believe was never married. She was deaf but could read lips. I remember how she would read our lips at night when she came to the door with a candle. I also remember Thomas Duggan Gibbs. He was a ship carpenter by trade; I remember all of them except William Henry. George Duggan Gibbs was a tailor, cutter, fitter, all three. John Duggan Gibbs was a shoemaker. These two both catered to fine work. They hardly knew how to do any hard rough work.
Ellen Phillips Gibbs was present at a testimony meeting in Haverfordwest, at a cottage meeting when she saw a dog come in at the door and take possession of the body of William White and he barked and gnashed his teeth just like a dog and got down on the floor. It threw the meeting into confusion. Some said, "Let's call the police", but John D. Gibbs said, "Let's use the power of the priesthood and rebuke the spirit that has taken possession of him. The brethern then made a circle around him and laid their hands on him. He started to go away. Father said, "Follow him up; follow him up." After they administered to him he fell exhausted on the floor, and Ellen saw the same dog leave his body and leave the room. At the next meeting Whilliam White admitted that he had been guilty of doing something wrong, which had lain himself open to the power of the adversary for an evil spirit to take possession of him. Afterward he became a powerful man and a leader among the saints. He became the presiding elder among the saints at the Haverford Branch.