She was visiting relatives Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she met Sherman Booth, the recently-widowed abolitionist journalist and speaker.

The resulting trial ended in a hung jury, and the Booth marriage was functionally over.

The next March, Sherman Booth was arrested for assisting in the escape of fugitive slave Joshua Glover.

[2][3] Booth moved to Zurich with one of her daughters and the German writer, radical, and feminist Mathilde Franziska Anneke.

[2][3][4][5] Booth lived in a New York City boarding house and died on April 11, 1865.