When the saints moved out of Nauvoo in February of 1846, Brigham Young asked the Browning family to stay behind. Their purpose was to remain and build wagons for the people who would later gather to Zion. Surely, a well-armed gunsmith could fend for himself.John Carling was also asked to stay behind to help build wagons. The Carlings were woodworkers, John having sketched out the template and carved the oxen for the Nauvoo temple.
With most of Nauvoo gone and their fathers working together to build wagons, Isaac and Sena became well aquainted.
The families would remain in Nauvoo for five years, leaving in 1851 with the Henry Miller Company. They would winter in Council Bluffs and head west on June 30, 1852..
They arrived in Salt Lake on September 30th and the two families parted ways two days later, the Brownings north to Ogden and the Carlings south to Provo.
But they wrote to each other and on November 17, 1854 were married.
Isaac was a musician and an artisan. He made cabinets, tables, chairs, rockers, toys, wagons, doll heads, jewelry.
I find it interesting that Sena would be attracted to a man who worked with his hands, just like her father.
Jonathan Browning was a contemporary of Joseph Smith, being born in October of 1805 in Tennessee. While living in Quicy Illinois Browning developed a reputation as a locksmith and gunsmith. (Sort of like barbers becoming surgeons, manufacturing locks required the same skill set as gunsmithing.)
Browning also was elected justice of the peace which put him in contact with Abraham Lincoln. 
His guns were engraved with this inscription: "Holiness to the Lord - Our Preservation"
And machine guns.
You know those green metal army surplus boxes? Well, here's where they fit in.
And the Browning logo. (Gone is the "Holiness to the Lord" inscription.)
