The Lucius and Lury Snow Scovil family operated a bakery on the west side of Main Street immediately south of the Cultural Hall in historic Nauvoo, Illinois. Lucius also catered for functions held in that facility. Tradition holds that Lucius may have sold or donated some of his land for the Cultural Hall.
Lury Scovil was a cousin to Lorenzo Snow, who evidently lived with the Scovil family for a time.
As noted by William G. Hartley, the business model of the bakery was to provide customers with “bread, crackers, cakes, jelleys and candies of all descriptions” and “marriage cakes made to order on the shortest notice,” according to mormonhistoricsites.org. Scovil later leased or sold the bakery.
Shortly thereafter, Lucius and Lury’s son, Joel, died. He was buried in the Nauvoo Cemetery on Parley Street about 2 miles east of the Mississippi River. The Scovils were able to trade some wheat for a headstone to place at Joel’s burial site. Lury joined him in death in 1846, just before members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo.
The bakery is now a popular stop for Nauvoo visitors.