BOVEE, Louisa C. (née LEWIS) (1836-1876) and Seymour C. (1830-1913)

Church members from Michigan. Ellen White's only mention of this family was of Louisa Bovee in her 1859 diary. Louisa had visited Ellen White in Battle Creek on April 6, and Ellen returned the visit the following day. Louisa Bovee was a daughter of Jonah and Caroline Lewis, who were among the earliest Sabbathkeeping Adventists in Battle Creek. Louisa married Seymour Bovee, a shoemaker, sometime in the latter 1850s, and they later settled in Allegan, Michigan. Louisa died at age 40 of “inflammation of the stomach.”1EGWLM 796.1

See: Obituary: “Seymour Bonee” [sic], Review, Jan. 1, 1914, p. 21; obituary: “Louisa C. Bovee,” Review, Oct. 19, 1876, p. 127; Ellen G. White, Ms 6, 1859 (entries for Apr. 6, 7); EGWEnc, s.v. “Battle Creek Congregation.”1EGWLM 796.2