Elizabeth Pollard Boud

Elizabeth Pollard was born in Great Salt Lake City 12 November 1857, less than two months after her family arrived. How fortunate that we count her as one of our pioneer mothers- as well as those following her; childbirth was not easy for mother or child on the frontier. It really is no less so today, if the same practices are used. So we are gifted with the lives of Mary Ann and daughter Elizabeth.

Elizabeth grew to maturity in a household of sisters. I cannot- have not yet found an account of that life on Pollards Court. Elizabeth would certainly have had the attention of neighbors and fellow members of the 15th Ward but she did not marry until August 1879 at the age of 22. At this time she was wed to John Wallace Boud, a newcomer of two years earlier who had been born in Keokuk, Iowa in 1854. A member of the LDS Church, he was active in the various administrative levels of the 15th Ward, holding the offices of Elder, Seventy, High Priest, and served as First Counselor to Bishop Ashton before being ordained bishop himself in 1904. He, with his wife Elizabeth Pollard Boud fulfilled this calling until 1920, serving for 16 years.

Elizabeth would certainly have understood the expectations of on bishop's household having been in her parents' home. We will need our Boud  cousins to tell us if there is an extant account left by Elizabeth. A very pleasant photograph of Elizabeth and John Wallace Boud with their adult children is found in 15th Ward Memories. This account informs us that the Bouds were well known and a great credit to the ward and their neighbors. Elizabeth Pollard Boud passed away due to complication of extreme arteriosclerosis which virtually starved her body of life-sustaining fluids. The immediate cause of death is listed on her death certificate as malnutrition. She died at the family home on Emerson Ave in Salt Lake City, 13 Mar 1933. Her husband would follow her on January 7, 1942. They are buried in the Salt Lake City cemetery.
A thoughtful account of the Boud family is provided in "Call Back Yesterday: Our Personal and Family Histories" by Edwin Butterworth  and Dorothy Leetham Butterworth (FHL 929.273 B982be). This account also has great photographs included.
The children of Elizabeth Pollard Boud are:
John William Boud 1880-1964, married Nellie Jeremy
Florence Boud 1882-1953, married Edwin Fielding Butterworth
Joseph Edwin Boud 1884-1976, married Irene Delaney
Elizabeth Boud 1886
Rebecca Boud 1887-1947, married Clarence Eugene Jones
Ella Boud 1888-1977, married Henry Watson
Hazel Boud 1891-1905
Wallace Pollard Boud 1896-1897