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.
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My husband is Anne Carling's great grandson. I'm a little stunned by how much of a family resemblance there is to Issac Carling. Interesting!
ooopss....forgot to put on there: I'm married to Scott Chamberlain Adams, great grandson of Anne/Thomas Chamberlain
Sena Browning is my second great grandmother. My great grandmother, Mary Carling Neves, told me when I was a child that Sena recounted the most amazing and wonderful adventures about crossing the plains, so much so that it never occurred to Mary that there was even one unpleasant thing about the experience: the wildlife, the scenery, the good food, the dances and music, and the spiritual experiences. Bret Randall (bret.randall@comcast.net)
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