Elizabeth Ann Cilley was born on 30 August 1810 at Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire.¹ She was the daughter of Horatio Gates Cilley and Sally Jenness.¹ She married Reverand Nathaniel Bouton D.D., son of William Bouton and Sarah Benedict, on 18 February 1840 at Deerfield.² She died on 6 February 1887 at age 76.²
     
     She possessed an attractive personality and quick, bright mind, and received the best education afforded to girls of her day. In 1840, upon her marriage to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., of Concord, New Hampshire, her home was changed to the capital city where she was a prominent figure for nearly half a century. Her keen perceptions, vivacious disposition and marked social gifts would have caused her to shine in any society, and as the wife of one of the leading clergymen of the state, those qualities found ample scope. During her long and active life no Concord gathering was complete without Mrs. Bouton, and no woman of her day will be more surely remembered. Upon the organization of the Centennial Home for the Aged in 1876, Mrs. Bouton was chosen its first president, and she was for several years president of the Concord Female Charitable Society, founded in 1812. She was always exceedingly active in church affairs, and did much to ameliorate the somewhat austere conditions of religious life prevailing during the early and middle part of the nineteeth century.³