• The official death certificate gives a different death date (27 Feb.) than other sources (which record it as 26 Feb.)

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon, and the ship manifest lists their surname as “Collins.”

Edward Martin Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 9

Sources

• Arizona Death Certificate.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 30 November 1856, 65.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 232.