Louisa Catherine Mikesell

Alternate Names
Louisa Catherine Mowery (Married Name)
Birth Date
On 1831 April 17 (Born)
Death Date
On 1904 November 11 (Died)
Gender
Female

According to the roster, Louisa traveled with Willis and Mary Boren. Louisa was the oldest of nine children and the oldest daughter of Ruth and Garrett Mikesell. She appears to have gone West with this company without her family. She married John Thomas Mowery 9 Dec 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had one child, Fred. It appears that she returned to Pottawattamie, Iowa sometime after the 1880s and married Volney H. Scott. Census records list Louisa as a midwife.

 

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