• He was a wood sawyer (see FHL film #596,972, entry no. 14, Jonathan Stone of 15 Berry Place Bell Street, Parish of Marylebone, County of Middlesex.)

                  He sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon.

Edward Martin Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 56
• Died en Route

Sources

• Binder, William Lawrence Spicer, Reminiscences [n.d.].
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Martin's Handcart Company, 1856," Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 10 November 1907.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Martin's Handcart Company, 1856," Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 24 November 1907.
• 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, 73.
• Loynd, James, The Martin Handcart Company, 1926.
• Patience L. Archer reminiscences, undated, 57-92.
• Pay, Mary G. to S. S. Jones,Handcart Veterans Association, 18 Oct. 1908. Handcart Veterans Association, Scrapbook, 1906-1914, fd. 5.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 230
• 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.