• She traveled with her uncle, Nathan Brooks. Her death certificate, obituary, and biographies mistakenly record her birth month as February.

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon.

Edward Martin Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 21

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• "Handcart Vets Hold Reunion," Deseret Evening News, 3 October 1907, 11.
• Historians Office Record of Members (Minnie Margetts file).
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 228.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America