• She sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon.  The ship manifest lists her as a "Spinster."

  Tamar shared a PEF bond and traveled with the John Jaques family to Iowa. There she joined her parents, brother and sisters who had sailed the previous year.

Edward Martin Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• 1910 Utah Census.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 4.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
• Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914.
•   Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 30 November 1856, 7, 60.
• Patience L. Archer reminiscences, undated, 57-92.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 260.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• Stella Jaques Bell, Life History and Writings of John Jaques: Including a Diary of the Martin Handcart Company (Rexburg, Idaho: Ricks College Press, 1978), 118-22, 129, 134-37, 140-41, 143-44, 150.