Joseph Smith and his followers escaped to Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Norman and George Buell were involved in the Mill business in Illinois.
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Zina Huntington married Smith October 1841 in Nauvoo.
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Prescinda entered into a celestial marriage with Joseph Smith in December 1841 in Nauvoo.
Zina Huntington
Jacobs Smith Young
Prescinda wrote about the time:
“No tongue can tell my feelings in those days of trial; but I had considered well and felt I would rather suffer and die with the saints, than live in Babylon.”
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In 1844, several of Joseph Smith’s disaffected associates created a newspaper called the Nauvoo Expositor laying out allegations of polygamy, claiming Smith was marrying women who already had husbands.
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Smith turned himself over to face charges of destruction of the press and treason and was martyred by an angry mob at the Carthage Jail.
Daguerreotype of Nauvoo in the 1840s.
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The Mormon migration continued from Nauvoo, to their Winter Quarters in Nebraska, and ended in Salt Lake City.
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Norman Buell attempted to travel with Presendia to the valley, but she refused his offer (some accounts say she left Norman in May of 1846).
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Presendia took their young son Oliver Buell with her to Utah. She would eventually have two children with Heber Kimball.