Louisa (Louise) BOWE

1877 - 1958  (80 years)

• Name	Louisa (Louise) BOWE
  Birth	18 Apr 1877	Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin
  	Albertina’s twin
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	School Teacher
  Vernon County Death Index	V27, P540 As Louise Larson
  Death	6 Jan 1958	Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin
  	the date according to her obituary
  Burial	Viroqua Cemetery, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin
  	4NE3
  Notes	Mistakenly called Louise Eimerman in a tree on Ancestry. The “Wisconsin Vital Records Indexes, Pre-1907 Birth Index, Marriages, and Death Index.” shows the birth of a Louisa Bowe in Vernon County on 18 April 1877. (Reel 0286, Record 000202) According to the birth records (VERN 0286, p. 203 for Albertina and 202 for Louisa), Louise and Albertine were born at 9:00 PM. Other records show that Louisa was born at 9 PM and Albertine at 10 PM. The birth records were entered by the girls’ father on June 4, 1877. They are the only children of Claus and Kari to have birth records. Louise’s gravestone and her obituary say, erroneously, that Louise was born in 1879. Louise and Albertina were shown as three years old in the 1880 census. Louise’s sibling twin died in childhood. Louise was apparently named after her older sister Louise who died of scarlet fever while Kari was pregnant with Louise and Albertina. At the time of the 1910 census (April 18th), Louise and Martin, both 32 and married 6 years, were living on Main Street in the city of Viroqua in a house they were renting. Louise is shown as having had one child, zero still living. No one else was living with them in 1910. Martin is shown as a traveling agent for a “Harvester Co.” Louise’s middle initial is shown as B. but that may have referred to her maiden surname. Found Louise and Martin living in Viroqua, in a home they owned on Maple (St.?), possibly house #122, in the 1920 census. By that time, Clara, Nels, Andrew, and Sever were all living with her. In the 1930 census, Louise and Martin are living at 122 East Maple Street in Viroqua. The household consisted of Martin, 52, Louise, 51, their daughter Aida, 19 (absent, attending school), Sever, 64, Andrew, 68, and Clara, 37. Martin owns the house, valued at $5000, and the household does have a radio. Martin was 25 and Louise 24 when they were married. In the 1940 census, Louise and Martin and Clara live at a house Martin owns at 122 East Maple Street and that is worth $4000. Martin is an automobile dealer. Martin had an eighth-grade education, Louise had had two years of high school. Martin and Louise were married in a Lutheran ceremony witnessed by Ida Anderson and Sever Bowe. From the Wisconsin Births database on Ancestry.com: Wisconsin Vital Records Indexes, Pre-1907 Birth Index, Marriages, and Death Indes. Name: Louisa Bowe Birth Date: 18 Apr 1877 County: Vernon Reel: 0286 Record: 000202 Her obit in the La Crosse Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 1958: Viroqua. Mrs. Louise Larson, 78, Viroqua, died Monday at the Bethel Home for the Aged. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Halvor Allness, Viroqua, the Rev. O. J. Nesheim officiating. Burial will be at the Viroqua Cemetery. Mrs. Larson, the former Louise Bowe, spent her entire life in Viroqua. She was active in county Republican organizations and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, holding offices in both. She was also active in the Viroqua Lutheran Church. Mrs. Larson, wife of the late Martin Larson, who died in 1948, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Halvor (Ada) Allness, and four granddaughters.
  Person ID	I170	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Claus Sjursen BØE (BOWE),   b. 1 Jun 1833, Vangen, Voss, Hordaland, Norway d. 2 Mar 1913, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Kari Andersdatter MAREIM,   b. 27 Sep 1833, Hafslo, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway d. 31 Oct 1908, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	27 Mar 1861	Hafslo, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martin Otto LARSON,   b. 27 Sep 1877, Kickapoo Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin d. 15 Jun 1948, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	4 Jul 1903	Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin
  	Vol 4, p. 329
  Children	1. Ora Clarence LARSON,   b. 25 Oct 1906   d. 20 Jun 1907 (Age 0 years)   2. Aida Caroline LARSON,   b. 4 Nov 1910, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin d. 5 Jun 1967, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Age 56 years)
  Photos		Louise and Martin Larson's Wedding picture July, 1903. Louise was 26 and Martin was 25.
  Family ID	F125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2006

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Louise Bowe Larson Taken at the family reunion picnic in Winona on August 13, 1950. Louise is 73. In the background, that may be Mearl Nundahl immediately behind Louise and Orland Olson's wife Lorraine on the far left.
  		Cora and her aunt Louise Probably taken in 1899. Cora appears to be about 3. Louise would have been about 22. Trimmed and mounted cheaply on card stock, no photographer imprint shown. Cora wrote on the back, "Aunt Louise and me."
  		Hendricksons and Larsons Apparently taken about 1913 when Charles would have been 56, Clara Munson 20, Sever 47, Arthur 5, Martha 41, Myrtle 3, Ada 3, and Louise 36. This would have been taken a little more than a year before Cora came to live with Martha and family for 3 months in late 1914. The backdrop appears to be of Minnehaha Falls so the picture was probably taken in Minneapolis.
  		Louise Bowe Larson Louise is in the lower left. The others are unknown.
  		Louise and friend Louise is on the right. The original is a tiny picture, about the size of a 35 mm frame.
  		Family gathering Probably taken about 1917, give or take a year. That seems to be Louise 2nd from the left. Martha's son Arthur is next to Louise and Martha's daughter Myrtle is in the middle in the front. That may be Aida in the front next to Myrtle. The original is a small print on lightweight paper. Cora had two copies: one with no writing on it and one that says "Sister Anna" on the back. We don't know who all of the others are.
  		Louise Bowe Larson