[1] She was born with a social reformer heritage; her grandfather would not eat of cane sugar or wear cotton goods, because they were made by slave labor.

When Mrs. Sturtevant heard of her appointment, she shrank back, but at her pastor's request, consented to serve, if her mother would go with her.

Mr. Sturtevant was proud to have his wife so appreciated, and when an organizer was needed, she was elected to that office, and in that capacity, traveled the mountains and valleys of her native State for years, making her impress upon the sentiment of the State and laying foundations for the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

[2] As children, before she left for boarding school and his family moved West, she had been friends with Edward Warren Peet (1834-1908).

Among the other benefits Sturtevant-Peet gave to the women of the State was the raising of the age of consent to 18 years.

[7][3] The California WCTU honored Sturtevant-Peet by making her birthday a Red Letter Day, and annually celebrating it by doing something for the advancement of woman suffrage, a cause to which she was devoted, or for "Scientific Instruction" in schools.

[1] In February 1920, she was seriously injured in a car accident, when her sister, Miss Alice Rockwell, visiting from the East, was instantly killed.

Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet died on January 23, 1921, at the age of 80, at Fabiola Hospital in Piedmont[8] area of Oakland, California following an illness of nine weeks' duration.