Hi all! This is the family line I am writing about for the Family History Writing Challenge. I figured I could take some of that and put it into this! Hope you enjoy!
Christ Lemieux was born on 14
March 1845, in Trois-Rivieres (Three Rivers), Quebec, Canada, to Louis Lemieux
and Julie Marose. Sometime after moving
to the United States, he changed his last name to Lamere. Christ is my 3rd
great-grandfather.
Not much is known about the
Lemieux family when Christ and his siblings were children. According to his obituary, Christ came to the
United States after the Civil War. He
first went to Illinois before making his way to Wisconsin. The 1910 United States census states that
Christ came to the US in 1866. While
living in Illinois, Christ worked in the lumber industry. Again, according to his obituary, he would
make trips down the Mississippi to St. Louis with rafts of logs each
spring.
When he came to Marshfield, it
was little more than a wilderness.
However, with other settlers like Louis Rivers and “Curley” Couture,
efforts were made to establish a settlement.
Christ established a general
store in Marshfield. When the settlement
decided they needed a place for the children to have lessons, the front room
over this store was used.
In May of 1878, Christ married
Anna Couture. She was the sister of his
friend Curley Couture. Christ and Anna
sold the store and moved to Mannville – which at the time was a much larger
town than Marshfield. Before moving
again in 1887 to a farm in Lincoln township, Christ and Anna had four
children. Born in 1881 was Dora, in 1883
was Joseph, in 1884 was Archie, and in 1886 was Walter. Following the move three more children were
born: an unnamed child who was born and
passed away in 1890, Ray in 1891, and Eva in 1894.
Tragedy struck in 1898 when Anna
passed away. In 1900, Christ’s sister
moved in. The US Census for 1900, the
Wisconsin state census for 1905, and the US Census for 1910 all show Salome
Landry, who is listed as Christ’s sister, living with the family. She is a widow, who according to the 1910 Census
had four children though none survived.
She was working as a servant. One
may guess that she came to help her brother after his wife passed away. Christ still had four children at home
between the ages of four and fourteen.
After selling the farm in 1914,
Christ moved in with his daughter Dora and her husband Peter Herman
Specht. Chris LaMere passed away on
Thursday, 18 October 1923. According to
his obituary his death was without warning and was caused by a “stroke of
paralysis the second in a year”. At the
time he was visiting his son, Ray.
Wednesday evening he said he was suffering for a slight stomach ache so
the next morning he walked up to the clinic for treatment. He passed away that night.
He is buried next to Anna at the
Hillside Cemetery in Marshfield, Wood, Wisconsin.
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