[1][2] They moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Sarah was one of the first women to marry polygamously and became the first Mormon woman to bear a child as a polygamist.

[3] In 1836, Alley moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and took a job freighting merchandise up and down the Mississippi River.

During the 1880s and 1890s, Alley was involved in a protracted lawsuit known as the Snow-Alley case which damaged his health and cost him a large part of his fortune.

[5] He abandoned active business pursuits in 1886 and died in West Newton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1896.

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