 In the spring of 1847 Martha's son-in-law Andrew Smith Gibbons left with the first company of Saints to enter the Salt Lake Valley.Martha's mother Abigail Mead McBride left for Utah a short while later on 17 June 1847 in company with Martha's brothers Samuel and John McBride.Martha departed for Utah on June 15, 1850 in the Warren Foote Company, 2nd hundred, in company with her daughter Adaline Knight Belnap, Adaline's husband Gilbert Belnap, and their 2 young sons.