BIRTHDATE: 19 Mar 1830

Newbury, New York

DEATH: 17 Jul 1912

Ogden, Weber Co., Utah

PARENTS: Charles Andrews

Keturah Button

PIONEER: 19 Oct 1848

Captain Snow Wagon Train

SPOUSE: Clinton D. Bronson

MARRIED: 25 Sep 1850

Salt Lake Endowment House

DEATH SP: 14 Dec 1906

Soda Springs, Idaho

CHILDREN:

Edwin Henry, 22 Jul 1851

Charles Amos, 21 Sep 1852

James Lewis, 25 Dec 1855

Clinton Dewitt, 22 Jan 1857

William Button, 22 Sep 1859

George March, 22 Nov 1862

Keturah Jane, 6 Dec 1864

Alliah Delphia Ann, 22 Aug 1866

Harriet Lillian, 2 Aug 1868

Benjamin Franklin, 23 Dec 1871 (died in infancy)

Lovisa was only seventeen years of age when she crossed the uncharted Plains and mountains on the long, rough road leading to the Salt Lake Valley. Her parents, two younger sisters, and she arrived with the Richards Wagon Company on 19 Oct, 1848.

They were nearly gunned down by vigilantes in lowa after leaving Nauvoo. Her father's singing a song preserved their lives. (See story of Keturah Button Andrews.)

Three years after her arrival in Salt Lake, Lovisa married Clinton Doneral Bronson in the Salt Lake Endowment House. They moved into Old Fort Ogden, in Weber County, where Clinton had been made Captain of the guard with the responsibility to settle difficulties which arose between the Indians and the white settlers.

Lovisa was an orderly, economical, and thrifty home-maker. As a wife and mother, she was loyal, brave, and true. She supported her husband in his callings.

The family moved to Huntsville in 1860 where they made their home until about the year 1872, where they engaged in farming and stock raising on a small scale.

Clint served as counselor to President Jefferson Hunt in the first branch presidency for ten years. She also supported him when he enlisted as a Captain of Ten in the Utah War of 1857.

They moved to Willard in Box Elder County where the boys could obtain work on the freight lines as 'mule skinners' from Corrine to Montana.