Migration West
Following the death of LDS leader Joseph Smith, Jr., and Fielding's brother-in-law Hyrum Smith, the church underwent a crisis over an appropriate successor for the Church president. Fielding and both of his widowed sisters chose to follow Brigham Young and move west with the greater part of the Saints. He supported his sisters, their children and stepchildren, traveling with them to Winter Quarters, Nebraska and, in 1848, to Utah. He settled near Mary's family in Millcreek, Utah. He died there on December 19, 1863.
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