Obituary Record

Louis Bouvier
Died on 10/14/1890
Buried in Blair Cemetery

OBITUARY: DIED, AT THE MILITARY HOME AT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, IN THE LAST WEEK OF October, 1890, LOUIS BOUVIER, IN THE 82nd YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Mr. Bouvier was born in France and served in the army under Napoleon III in the war of 1848. He soon after came to America and cast his lot in Washington county in the year 1856 or 7. He resided for many years in DeSoto township, where he raised a good and respectable family. In the late years of his life he was estranged from his wife, who preceded him to the grave only a few months ago. After her divorce she assumed her maiden name of Eugene Courvoursier, and her memory is still fresh in the hearts of her many friends.

Mr. Bouvier was an honest man and a patriot, and when he came to America he cast his lot with Americans and made the interests of this country his own interests. At the outbreak of the Pawnee war, in 1859, he at once left his plow and his home at the call of Governor Morton, and accompanied Governor Black and General Thayer to the field of action as a private of Captain Kennedy’s company. In this service he was present at Battle Creek when the Pawnees sued for peace. After his honorable discharge, having served twenty days in all, he returned to his home and pursued his industry until in October, 1862, when he again obeyed the call of his country, and enlisted as a private of Company “B”, Second Nebraska Cavalry, and served until the following August, when he was honorably discharged from that service. On the 30th day of August, and immediately after his honorable discharge from the service, he reinlisted under Captian Porter as a private of Company “A”, Nebraska Militia, first brigade, first regiment. Of this service we have no official report at hand, but remember having heard this soldier recount his hardships out on the south fork of the Republican river, where his scouting party ran out of rations and was lost for some days, living on raw buffalo meat, which for obvious reasons they dared not eat but little.

At the time of his enlistment in 1863, he was 56 years old, and this would make his real age at the time of this death about 83 years. He, however, gave his age to the recruiting officer as 44 in order to be received into the service.

Sometime in the year 1881, he made application of a pension, which he ……………. (the article is cut off here.)

The actual death date was not listed.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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