• The Smith family emigrated to the United States in 1855. They sailed on the ship Clara Wheeler. Thomas is listed with his mother, Mary, sister-in-law, Hannah, and siblings, Edward, Ann, George, and Ralph. 

James S. Brown Company (1859)

• Age at Departure: 11

Sources

• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• Smith, Edward Whitfield, Autobiographical sketch, 5-6.