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

  He was the company bugler.

Edward Martin Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22
• Head of Household

Sources

• "A Short Biographical Sketch on the Life of Bishop Watkins" Wasatch Wave, 2 January 1903, p. 2.
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