Published in Pilot Tribune on 10 March 1932

PIONEER RESIDENT CALLED BY DEATH

MRS. CORA BOUVIER PASSED AWAY MONDAY MORNING

Mrs. Cora M. Bouvier, resident of Washington county for more than half a century, and one of the few remaining pioneers who had witnessed and participated in the multitude of changes that have occurred in this region since 1870's, died at 3:45 Monday morning in the Blair hospital after an illness of only a week. Influenza, which developed into pneumonia, was the cause of her death, Mrs. Bouvier being unable to resist the disease because her system had been weakened by anemia. She had been in comparatively good health and active throughout the winter.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Congregational church in Blair, with the pastor, Rev. A.F. Newell, officiating. Burial was made in the Blair cemetery.

Mrs. Bouvier was born in Greenbrier, West Virginia, October 11, 1854. She came to Nebraska in 1874, bringing with her a daughter, born by her first marriage. Mrs. Bouvier homesteaded in Adams county and after proving up on the land, she came east to DeSoto in the late '70's.

She was married at DeSoto in the fall of 1880 to Oliver Bouvier, T.M. Carter, then justice of the peace, performing the ceremony. With the exception of a few months she spent with her family in southeastern Arkansas, Mrs. Bouvier had been a resident of Washington county since her marriage. Mr. Bouvier was killed by a train in Denver on November 22, 1919.

Surviving Mrs. Bouvier are two daughters by her last marriage, Mrs. Esther B. Stricklett of Blair, with whom she had made her home for the past eight years, and Mrs. Ina M. Street of Denver.

The daughter by her first marriage, Mrs. Alice Tersinger, died last April in an Omaha hospital.

Also surviving her are a brother, William Hoylman, who lives in Montana, and a sister, Mrs. Fanny Baer of Norfolk, who was unable to attend the funeral because of ill health. Two half-brothers and two half-sisters also survive. They are John Hoylman and Byron Hoylman, both of Hastings, Mrs. Minnie Miller, Wilsonville, Nebr., and Mrs. Laura Mills, Franklin, Nebraska.

Mrs. Bouvier was the descendant of a distinguished family, her relationship extending back to Governor Marshall of North Carolina. She was not particularly interested in genealogy, but other members of the family, tracing its history, discovered that she had a clear claim to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

A kind and devoted mother, a good neighbor and one of the courageous, intrepid pioneer women whose efforts and sacrificing were largely responsible for the development of this region, Mrs. Bouvier's death is mourned by hundreds of her acquaintances throughout the county.

#2-published in Enterprise on 10 March 1932

Mrs. Clara Moffat Bouvier passed away at the Blair hospital after a week's illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Bouvier was born in Greensborough county, West Virginia on October 11, 1854. She was married to Oliver Bouvier of DeSoto Oct. 19, 1880. The husband passed away in 1919. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Pete Stricklett of Blair and Mrs. Ina Street of Denver.

For the past eight years she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Pete Stricklett. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Congregational church and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

Note: FindaGrave Memorial # 8977355 The following was on FindaGrave:

Coralena Moffatt Hoyleman was born to John Jordan and Jane Virginia Marshall Hoyleman. She married John Bing Ferguson on 11 Oct 1871. Born to this union: Alice Virginia. Cora and John divorced in 1874 and Cora moved to Nebraska and took young Alice with her.

Cora married Oliver Bouvier on October 19, 1881. Born to this union: Esther Bell and Ina Mae. Cora died from Influenza developing into pneumonia.