The quorum at once renamed the WCTU organ to "Our Union", made Burt publisher, and Margaret Elizabeth Winslow, of Brooklyn, editor. According to Gifford (1995), Buell, Pugh, and Frances H. Rastall went on to use the "Union Signal" to promote their private businesses. In 1880, in the Boston convention, Buell was chosen corresponding secretary of the National WCTU, and in that position she did effective work with her writing and lecturing for the association. She was re-elected to that office regularly for twelve years. Upon the platform, as a speaker before an audience, she was always self-poised, self-unconscious, earnest, and impressive. She was a dignified presiding officer and an accomplished parliamentarian, and in State conventions she had often filled the chair in emergencies. Buell was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the National Purity Association, Sorosis, and the Century Study Clubs. She died in 1927 and is buried at Lakeview Cemetery, East Hampton, Connecticut.