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Volume 38 - #149 September 2016 BELGIAN LACES: Official Quarterly Bulletin of Our principal THE BELGIAN RESEARCHERS objective is: Belgian American Heritage Association Keep the Belgian Heritage alive Dear Members, in our hearts and in Late again you will say. I seem to be making a the hearts of our habit of that this past few years. posterity I always work on several editions at the same

time but always seem to get caught up with THE BELGIAN other things and then find myself at the last

RESEARCHERS minute realizing I had done less than I thought I had. This was the case again. Life brings Belgian American unexpected things and I keep having to relearn Heritage Association that it is not healthy to put off until tomorrow.

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founded in 1976 and Thank You to Guy for always being ready with Cranenburg House (also Craenenburg) is a historic building located in the marketplace great research and articles. Thank You to welcomes as members (Markt) of Bruges, Belgium. Any person of Belgian Chuck for all the work he has done and descent interested in continues to do to upload more Belgian names George W. T. Omond's Bruges and West Flanders to our census page. I know how hard they are Genealogy, History, (1906), illustrated by Amédée Forestier, refers to to read sometimes. Thank You to Elaine for the building: Cranenburg, from the windows of Biography or Heraldry, continuing to send Canadian obituaries. Thank which, in olden times, the Counts of Flanders, either amateur or You for the questions that always lead to with the lords and ladies of their Court, used to professional. research we can add to Belgian Laces, like the watch the tournaments and pageants for which

LaViolette Memoir and this issue’s article on Bruges was celebrated, and in which Maximilian You are invited to Civil illnesses. was imprisoned by the burghers in 1488. But the become a member and Cranenburg, once the 'most magnificent private

to participate actively residence in the Market-Place,' many years ago Thank You for your patience and continued in the work of the lost every trace of its original splendor, and is support! Always enjoy hearing from you and now an unattractive hostelry, the headquarters of a society. looking forward to new queries. smoking club; while the Hôtel de Bouchoute, The annual Fall weather will be bringing more people turned into a clothier's shop, has little to membership fee indoors. Consider helping index with us or distinguish it from its commonplace neighbors. includes a subscription another organization! The building is now apparently a cafe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranenburg_House to the quarterly Regine BELGIAN LACES Table of Contents Books in Review: “Barber Gus of Cranenburg” p91 President-Editor: The Archivist of Rumors p92 Belgian families in the Sandusky River Valley, northern Ohio, Seneca, Hancock, Wyandot, Régine Brindle Crawford, Huron, Erie and Sandusky Counties p94 Treasurer/Secretary: Belgians in Haumont, Nord, France in 1906 p100 Melanie Reynolds Memoir – Part 4 p102 Past Presidents: Wisconsin Shorts: Excerpts from the Algoma Record Herald p107 Micheline Gaudette Belgians on the WWI Draft Cards: Michigan p108 Pierre Inghels Illness an enemy for Civil War soldiers p111 Belgians on the 1910 Census: Indiana p115 Co-Founders: French Settlements in Floyd County p118 Micheline Gaudette & Pennsylvania and West Virginia Obituaries p121 Ardiena Stegen Belgians in 1911 British Columbia p123 Canadian Obituaries p125 Belgian Passengers to America: 1892 p127 Deadline for Index p130 submission of Articles to Belgian Laces: Feb 15 – May 15 Contact Information: THE BELGIAN RESEARCHERS - 495 East 5th Street - Peru IN 46970 August 15 - November 15 Tel/Fax:765-473-5667 OR e-mail [email protected]

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“Barber Gus of Cranenburg. A Tale from the Occupation of Belgium 1940- 1945” – A time capsule – By Jozef Goethals

On the first day of September 1939, barber Gus Boncol was having breakfast with his wife Elsken and his two children, Anneken and Justin. A monotone voice suddenly interrupted the beautiful sounds of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony drifting from the old Philips radio, “This morning, Führer Adolf Hitler and his Wehrmacht invaded Poland.” Hushing the children to hear the rest of the broadcast, Elsken anxiously glanced at Gus, “Oh, my God, Gus, . . . could Belgium be next?” Thus begins my just published historical novel about WWII “Barber Gus of Cranenburg. A Tale from the Occupation of Belgium 1940-1945” My personal war memories and the many stories told by my father, barber August, about the German occupation and the repression after the liberation in my hometown Torhout in West-Flanders, prompted me to research what regular folks went through during that occupation. It became a tale in which the characters are my own family members and the clients my father shaved during the war. The novel provides a time capsule on the fears, uncertainties, struggles for survival, love and hatred, and the curtailing of freedom the “winds of war” created in a small city. What happened in my fictional Cranenburg happened all over occupied Europe in 1940-1945. A Dutch version of the book is in preparation under the titel “Barbier Gus van Torhout”. What happens in Cranenburg leads you into the small town under occupation: the quartered German soldiers in private homes, the shortness of food and the rationing, the continued presence of German uniforms, the work camps and concentration camps, the forced labor, the air alerts and bombings, the pressing struggle of survival, the threat of collaborators, the suspicion and distrust among friends and even family members, the young Flemish East Front soldiers, etc. Bavo Dhooge, a well-known Ghent mystery writer in Belgium, said about the book, “Most of the content in this novel probably has been told in books and films, but the personal character and the lived experience approach make this novel unique, and this is quite an achievement. Through this tale, future generations (also as a required reading for schools) can gain insight in how it was to live, to grow up, and to survive in that period. It is a gripping reading experience.” And Peter Vandermeersch, Chief Editor NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam, writes, “This novel gives a wonderful insight into what World War II in Belgium must have been like for ordinary people in a small city. As far as I know, this is an exceptional portrait. The author is excellent when it comes to details about concrete challenges, survival situations, and social interactions Barber Gus and his family encounter during the occupation and the repression after the liberation. A great time capsule!” I am sure that among the Belgian Laces readers there are still many who either went through the occupation themselves or who had relatives in Belgium who were alive during that period. Barber Gus of Craneburg might encourage them to inquire and search for recollections of the war and its aftermath within their own families and give them a chance to begin a conversation about the war years. The novel is available at www.amazon.com

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« L’archiviste des rumeurs », le témoignage d’un ouvrier de Vottem entre 1850 et 1914 “The Archivist of Rumors”, the testimony of a worker from Vottem between 1850 and 1914 Translated from Les Cahiers Nouveaux #83 (96-97), September 2012 http://docum1.wallonie.be/DOCUMENTS/CAHIERS/CN83/C2A23_Leboutte.pdf

And were the « little people » who fought to survive, not also great figures in Wallonie?

Before 1914, one fifth of the population was just plain poor and the crushing majority lived precariously. It took courage and great effort not to sink into misery and anonymity… Yet these voiceless people of History found someone who witnessed and recounted their daily life: Gaspard MARNETTE, gun maker in Vottem. Between 1857 and 1903 he kept a remarkable journal in which he recorded everything he saw, heard and experienced in his village filled with miners, gun makers and peasants1. Evoking his mother’s life, who was « without any education», he insists on the great moral quality of the ‘little people’: «during all her youth my poor mother had to work the hardest jobs to procure her sustenance […] My mother married: she once again fell into misery». To work hard or to sink…

The world of the mass poverty was one of ingenuity: the poor man survives “by resorting to solutions he only holds the secret to» (César de Paepe, 1863). Taking advantage of everything, doing all sorts of work. About his father, Marnette reports « he knew how to pull the most from our small land by planting trees and maintaining hedges; he knew how to keep a pig sty at little cost, repairing the woodwork at home, reusing any old nail and small pieces of wood».

In this survival economic system, women played a crucial part. Lucie DEJARDIN, socialist militant from Liege, remembered her mother collected potato peelings all across town so she could sell them to pig farmers in the Bois de Breux2.

Work had real value and permitted pride. MARNETTE constantly uses words such as honor, honesty, hard work. «The man was small in stature and of ordinary body size, a man of means, diligent, loyal, helpful, just and well intentioned. […] He was not educated and was a gun maker by profession and to ensure he raised his many children whom he taught to be good gun makers themselves, he didn’t hesitate to go work the mines. He was prosperous in business and thru economy and thrift he saved up thousands of francs and purchased good properties for his children. He remained respectable all his life and was respected by all. Happy are those who have similar lives and conduct.» (1883).

There was no social assistance. Therefore owning a small piece of land, a small house was crucial. A few chickens, a pig, even a cow, provided a definite food supply, a security in case of lay off or illness. This is why MARNETTE likely talks about his vegetable garden at great lengths... Owning a house also allowed them to open a boutique or a cabaret. According to MARNETTE, Vottem had several prosperous taverns “but most were just small locations where liquor was sold rather than taverns”.

MARNETTE had a sense of nuances: poverty is not a vice. He talks of an older couple, his neighbors: «They are always dressed rather cleanly, not in rags but in old clothes, the man especially, that are either given to them or bought cheaply from a second-hand merchant» (1876). As to his father, «he was very thrifty with his clothing, and made them last a long time. He owned a sturdy blue tailcoat, which he wore during his youth, when he got married, and on special days during the year, sometimes to the fair and the tailcoat still exists but now he wears it during the week». Wearing old clothes was characteristic of the poor without dishonoring them while torn clothes were clothes worn by vagabonds. Begging was a disgrace: «Observing from a distance, my sister saw the woman Marguerite go from one man to another on the boulevard: she was begging! » (1871). Nothing escaped the neighbors. The slightest gesture was decrypted, sometimes with great cruelty. The window drapes cleanliness immediately signaled the level of life. In 1873, during a quarrel between two housewives in Vottem, one screamed: « Your house already shows misery, the drapes on your windows are falling to pieces!».

1 R. LEBOUTTE, L’archiviste des rumeurs. Chronique de Gaspard Marnette, armurier, Vottem 1857-1903, Liège, Éditions du Musée de la Vie Wallonne, 1991, 437 p. (Tous les passages cités ici sont repris de cet ouvrage). 2 E.B. CHALMERS, Lucie Dejardin. Hiercheuse et député socialiste, Huy, s.d., p. 27-28. 92

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Life was hard and dangerous: on a regular basis MARNETTE relates the death of workers in the prime of life. In 1876, TILMAN died at the age of 47 years, «he died […] of a stomach ailment he acquired by working in the water of the mines. He was a good worker, a good miner, especially in what they called “avaleresses” (Blind pits) and “bacnures” ». The mine: practically a common pit! 1869, «Pierre DONNAY, 40 to 45 years of age, was killed at the mine called “des Français”, in Ans. He was busy there in a blind pit3. While climbing out of the well to go get his tools he fell from quite a height and fell mortally wounded at the feet of his comrades». Children were not spared: “death of Guillaume SULON, 13 years 2 months. This boy worked in a phosphate well and met his death in a fall on October 19, 1891”.

Everyone was conscious of their daily contact with death. A poem titled “La Houilleuse” was published in the Gazette de Liège on June 23rd, 1865, following a mining accident expresses this constant fear:

My child, that night, I had a bad dream Death was in the air; the crowd was in mourning… Stay, stay with me… In case the dawning day Should… shine… on your casket!

The Fair (Kermiss) was one way little people had to escape the hardness of everyday life. It also provided an opportunity to show the village who they were or pretended to be. Gold! In 1878, two sisters, “both without education, put on a rich woman’s airs of grandeur but they were doing so in a vulgar way […] wearing rich dresses and plumed hats, gold chains straddling their chests as well as other gadgets, all things completely removed from their identity as farm day laborers in the village itself”.

In 1871, when noting the number of young women out on a Sunday walk, wearing a hat and carrying a parasol, MARNETTE remarked: “Some of the girls and women mentioned here work in the fields all week and travel from Liege to Vottem and back again during the week, in full sun, carrying a basket full of vegetables and other merchandise on their head. Their heads and faces exposed all week long while working and then on Sunday they carry a parasol to keep the sunrays from burning their faces. Is there anything sillier?”

Thus luxury items were used in a game aiming not at being but at seeming. This laborious population who has for generations aspired to a better life that is finally within reach, charges the watches, jewels, hats with a symbolic task: to appear like a bourgeois, make believed that we have now crossed the border that separates the poor man’s world and that of the opulent bourgeoisie. In this games, the traits of a popular culture remain vibrant. Thus the search for overabundance, the acquiring of symbolic objects, a bit as though “we never had enough”. But nobody is fooled in the village. The jokes, satiric songs are rarely innocent; they often prove to be a cruel expression of the collective reproach. Up until the 1860s, there is little interest in politics among the village’s little people. They listened to the injunctions of the priests, the teacher or the tavern keeper… However, around 1862-1865, «societies» began to multiply and became politicized after the creation of the Belgian Workers Party in 1885. A fervent Catholic, MARNETTE worried as much over the rise of the liberal hold (all masons are ungodly) as he did the rise of socialism. “The socialists were completely new and said they were the workers’ party. They were all ungodly revolutionaries” (1893).

MARNETTE’s chronicle, largely subjective, take us to the motley universe of the little people, with their qualities and their flaws. All these forgotten of History form a group, a great figure, that of the people for whom Hiercheuse au Horloz (Saint-Nicolas – Tilleur). Photograph by Gustave living was first and foremost surviving…

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Belgian families in the Sandusky River Valley, northern Ohio Seneca, Hancock, Wyandot, Crawford, Huron, Erie and Sandusky Counties By Guy GALLEZ At the time of the Civil War In his book Luxembourgers in the New World, Nicholas Gonner, in 1889, write those lines concerning the Seneca County settlers, from Belgium and from the Great Duchy:

Luxembourger immigration into Seneca County started in 1833. Michael Wagner, who died later in Minnesota, and Johann and Nicholas Feck of Heverdingen (Habergy) sought a home in the virgin forest near St. Nicholas, not far from Berwick. Subsequent years saw families from the Grand Duchy settling near Tiffin and today's New Riegel (then Wolf's Creek)...

We have heard from an eye-witness, Mrs. Margaretha Feck4, how the first settlers fared. The people endured much misery. The women were often frightened by Indians, who only later were driven west. A coffee-mill served to grind the little buckwheat that the settlers had. They did not even have bread from June 1835 to the end of March 1836. They helped each other as best they could. Although money was very scarce, the people were basically content and managed to clear a thick forest...

For some years now (1889), immigration to Seneca County from the Belgian province of Luxembourg and from the Grand Duchy itself has almost ceased. The old settlers in their majority have passed away, and the younger generation has been moving west for a long time.

Looking more closely at some of the settlements of Seneca County, one notes that St. Nicholas, which is also called Frenchtown, is a small place located some three miles from the junction of two railways and from the post office of Berwick. Land in this vicinity costs (1889) about $70 an acre. This was, indeed, initially a French settlement but some of the original French settlers left and today (1889) the community numbers about 50 French-speaking families, both French and Belgian. Of the 20 Luxembourger families of this parish, only three are from the Grand Duchy proper. The rest are of other nationalities. In St. Nicholas, the first church was a log structure built from 1839 to 1840. In 1856, a brick building dedicated to St. Nicholas was erected in its stead. Because the foundation of the newer structure had not St Nicholas Church been dug deeply enough, the building became dilapidated. In 1887, it was replaced by a Romanesque style Frenchtown building.

Three miles from St. Nicholas, New Riegel is a settlement of 500 people, mostly Germans, located in the center of rich farms. Not counting parishioners of the mission at Alvada, there are 152 German and 3 Irish families in this parish. Among the Germans are 60 Luxembourger households, five or six of which originated in the German- speaking part of the province of Luxembourg in Belgium. Today's New Riegel (1889) is a thriving country town with large, clean roads. Land in the vicinity is appraised (1889) at $80 an acre. The houses are of brick and wood construction and nearly all are surrounded by nice orchards. Flower gardens are not St Boniface Catholic Cemetery lacking. The settlement, under its original name, of Wolfs Creek, had a log church New Riegel already in 1833, thanks to the efforts of Father Tischenhens and the poor settlers. The edifice was dedicated to St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans. Having arrived as early as 1830, the first settlers were looked after spiritually by a missionary stationed in Peru.

Michel Allarding

Michel Allarding born March 15, 1793, Fouches (Hachy); married Marie Catherine Yacinthe Antoine, July 8, 1817, Fontenoille (Sainte- Cécile); death February 16, 1859, Orange, Hancock County; blacksmith, son of Pierre Alardin and Josephe Mathey Marie Catherine Yacinthe Antoine born March 17, 1798, Nouzon, Ardennes, France (Nouzonville since 1921); death March 26, 1877; daughter of Vincent Antoine and Catherine Prevot Children: Jean Michel born November 1, 1819, Fouches; married Ann Catharine Galsanliter; death August 27, 1895, Van Buren twp, Hancock County Nicolas born November 6, 1820, Fouches; married Rebecca Baum, Ashland, Ashland County; married Lydia Baum, April 6, 1852,Loudonville, Ashland County; death March 13, 1887, Ionia, Michigan

4 I find Jean Feck and his wife Marguerite Rodesch on board the Mazeppa from Le Havre, arriving in New York June 29, 1833. They are listed as coming from Germany. Michel Wagner family was on board the Cyrus also from Le Havre, arriving in New York August 12, 1833.

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Ferdinand born October 9, 1822, Fouches; death December 23, 1833, Fouches Anne Marie Caroline born January 19, 1824, Fouches; married Daniel Nicolas Yarger, Ashland County; death February 8, 1898, Barry County, Michigan Elizabeth born March 2, 1829, Fouches; married John Brackler, November 30, 1848, Ashland; married Conrad Benjamin Eggerman, November 18, 1852, Richland; death October 22, 1887, Orange Twp Elen born 1831 at sea, death on ship Mathias born November 5, 1833, Danville, Knox County; married Susan Shopbell, 1862; death January 1916, Carlton, Barry County, Michigan Josiah born November 1835, Ohio; married Margaret E ..; death August 3, 1913, Carlton twp, Barry County, Michigan John Theodore born January 20, 1838, Ashland County; married Harriett Helmer, 1876; death March 24, 1910, Hastings, Barry County, Michigan Anthony born June 13, 1841 Crawford County, Ohio; married Lucy May Shuster, 1872; death January 16, 1913, Van Buren, Hancock County Peter born May 6, 1843, Richmond County, Ohio; married Melinda A McKelory; death October 19, 1923, Emmet County, Michigan Laura born about 1843, Ohio

Hancock County, 1850 census 1831 ? Michael Aldreding 30 M Farmer Belgium Not found. Catherine Aldreding 26 F Prussia Elizabeth Aldreding 5 F Ohio Yasant Aldreding 3 M Ohio

THE FOLLOWING AREND ARE NOT EASY TO GRASP THERE IS A LOT OF AREND/ARENDT/ARENT IN THE SOUTH OF THE LUXEMBOURG PROVINCE AND A LOT OF CHILDREN BORN IN SENECA COUNTY AT THE SAME TIME FROM THOSE INTERMINGLED FAMILIES SO, HANDLE THE INFORMATION I GIVE HERE WITH CARE (G.G.)

1) Child of Laurent Arend born January 21, 1769, Sampont and Marie Klein born Udange October 15, 1779; married January 11, 1803 (21 Nivose An 11), Hachy

Dominick Arend

Dominick Arend born November 29, 1820, Hachy, married Mary Wagoner January 7, 1850 Seneca Co; death December 9, 1903, Crane Twp, Paulding Co, Ohio Mary Wagoner born August 15, 1829, Belgium5; death January 17, 1917, Paulding, Paulding County Children: Margaret born December 27, 1850, Tiffin; married Louis Smith; death June 18, 1931, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County Catherine "Kate" born 1853: married J. W. Kuebler; Elizabeth Lizzie born 1855; married G. Sly Mary born October 1857; married T. Duffner Dominick born March 13, 1860, Tiffin; married Philomena Sieren; death October 31, 1940, Cecil, Paulding County Rosa born June 16, 1862, Tiffin; married H Schultz; death June 4, 1937, Cecil, Paulding County Anna, born September 1, 1865, Tiffin; married John Rosselit; death October 13, 1940, Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan Lawrence born June 28, 1868; married Katherine Jacob; death 1943 Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan Pauline born November 30, 1870; married Frank Bakle Martin born November 12, 1873, Tiffin; married Mary Ellen McNayghy in 1896; death February 3, 1944, Defiance, Defiance County Peter born October 6, 1876, Clinton; married Sophia Louise Phillips; death September 17, 1955

Tiffin, Seneca County, 1850 census Cotton Planter Le Havre to New York May 31, 1843 Dominick Arndt 24 M Farmer Germany Arn Dominique 23 M Farmer USA Belgium Mary Arndt 18 F Germany on Margrett Wagner 19 F Germany

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Dominick Arend has been a good citizen of Crane township (Paulding County) since 1868, and he is the possessor of 180 acres of fine land, which is well under cultivation. He was born in Belgium, Germany, December 19, 1819, the son of Lawrence and Mary Arend, and at the age of nineteen years came to America, where he obtained work as a fireman on the old Mad River railroad. He there attended to the water tanks. This occupation he continued for thirty years, at which time he engaged in farming, and has since been successfully pursuing this occupation. He also kept a boarding house. Mr. Arend was married, in 1850, to Miss Mary Wagoner, the daughter of John and Kate Wagoner, and unto this union were born: Kate, the wife of J. W. Kuebler; Margaret, the wife of L. Smith; Mary, the wife of T. Dutfuer; Lizzie, the wife of G. Sly; Anna, the wife of John Rosselit; Rosa, the wife of W. Schiltz; Lawrence, who married Katie Jacob; Pauline, the wife of Frank Bakle; Dominick, Jr., Martin and Peter. Mr. Arend is an aggressive democrat, and while not a seeker for ofllce, is a hard worker for his party. The family are worthy members of the Catholic church, and rank high in the social scale.(note: there is a discrepancy between the official birth date and the one given above, but it seems those Dominick are the same people)

2) Children of Nichola Arendt born June 14, 1790, Nobressart and Marie Anne Noel born March 8, 1794, Sampont; married March 20, 1810, Hachy

Anne Catherine born January 10, 1811, Sampont; married Nicholas Schreiber (---> see that name), June 11, 1834, Hachy; death March 14, 1909, Niew Riegel Marie born May 18, 1812, Sampont; married September 17, 1840, Nicholas Gauché, Hachy (see note); death 1845, Belgium, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Nicolas born December 8, 1815, Fouches; married Anna Pethe, April 28, 1858, Saint-Leger-Lez-Virton; death September 27, 1896, Big Spring Twp ---> see bellow Anne born October 20, 1820, Sampont; married Michel Freyman February 27, 1849, Hachy (see note); married John Decker (---> see that name), February 27, 1859, Seneca County; death March 17, 1889 notes: - Nicolas Gauché born Fouches, November 16, 1815, son of Henri Gauché and Jeanne Mamer, he died November 1, 1887 in Belgium, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. - Anne Catherine (Schreiber), Nicolas and Anne (Freyman) immigrated on the same ship David Hoadley arriving in New York, July 31, 1858. - Michel Freyman born Sampont, April 13, 1815. No trace found in Seneca County. No children born Hachy.

Nicholas Arend

Nicholas Arend born December 3, 1815, Sampont-sur-Semois, Hachy; married Anne Peter, Hachy, May 3, 1858; death September 26, 1896, buried Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Frenchtown Anne Peter born January 11, 1833, Fouches, Hachy; death November 21, 1913, buried Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Frenchtown; daughter of André Peter and Marguerite Magnette

Children: Nicolas born January 25, 1859, Big Springs; married Elizabeth Myers, 1887; death April 7, 1946, Mark, Defiance County Dominic A. born July 7, 1861, Seneca Co.; married Anna Catharne Nick, May 3, 1887; death November 13, 1893, buried Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Frenchtown John born January 21, 1863, Frenchtown; married Catherine Ries, February 1, 1897; death February 16, 1850, buried St Boniface Catholic Cemetery, New Riegel Anna Mary born April 22, 1865, Big Spring Twp; married Peter W Reinhart, February 12, 1884; death June 4, 1947, Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio Dominic F born October 20, 1867, Seneca County: married Susan Jacoby, April 30, 1895; death January 4, Nicholas Arendt 1962, buried Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio Find a Grave Peter W born March 20, 1870, Big Spring Twp; married Margaret Feck, January 28, 1902; death March 5, 1935, Wyandot County, Ohio, buried Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio Mary Ann born April 19, 1872, Big Spring Twp: married Joseph Bernard Wonderly, November 27, 1894; death January 17, 1959, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio Andrew Nicholas born July 16, 1875, Big Spring Twp; married Caroline Lenore Stark, May 12, 1908; death April 20, 1947, Findlay, Hancock County, ohio, buried Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Frenchtown

Big Spring, Seneca County, 1860 census David Hoadley Antwerp to New York, July 31, 1858 Nicholas Arendt 44 M Farmer Belgium 31 Arend Nicolas 42 M Farmer USA Belgium Anna Arendt 28 F Belgium 32 Arend Anna 25 F Farmer USA Belgium

Nicholas Arendt 1 M Ohio

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NICHOLAS AREND. farmer, P. O. Beckwick, was born in Belgium. November 6, 1814. His parents, Nicholas and Mary A. Arend, were also natives of Belgium, where they married and lived and died. Our subject married, May 4, 1857, Anna Pethe who was born in Belgium in November, 1832, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Pethe, of same nativity and who remained in their native land until death. Our subject and wife immigrated to America, coming direct to Big Spring Township, this county, in 1857, where they have remained ever since. They are the parents of eight children, seven now living: Nicholas, John, Anna (wife of Peter M. Reinhart), Dominic, Peter, Mary and Andrew. Nicholas is deceased. Our subject now owns eighty acres of fine land, whereon he and his family reside. They are all faithful members of the Catholic Church at St. Nicholas. note: André Peters married Anne Catherine Seyl, January 17, 1828, Hachy

3) Children of Peter Arend born Sampont(Hachy) September 6, 1804; death ? and Marie Devillez born Hachy December 20, 1808; death October 15, 1875, Big Spring; married March 4, 1830, Hachy

Nicolas born March 17, 1832, Hachy ---> see bellow Moser Taylor Le Havre to New Orleans, May 25, 1854 Dominick born March 12, 1834, Hachy ---> see bellow 517 Arends Dominique 20 M farmer USA Belgium Elizabeth born July 30, 1836, Hachy ? 518 Arends Elisabeth 17 F USA Belgium Guillaume born March 8, 1839, Hachy; death January 22, 1860, 522 Arends Nicolas 22 M USA Belgium Hachy In 1862, Nicolas Arens was back in Belgium to bring Jeanne born September 8, 1841, Hachy; death June 5, 1852, Hachy back is widowed mother and his two little sisters Pierre born June 22, 1844, Hachy ? Marie and Catherine. They were on board the Marie born October 6, 1847, Hachy; death May 10, 1848, Hachy Wilhelmine Antwerp to New York, July 25, 1862 Marie born April 27, 1849, Hachy;...... Catherine born December 24, 1851, Hachy; married Isidore Erfort, Niclaus Arend 32 M Germany August 16, 1877, New Rigel; death March 8, 1921, Tiffin Maria Arend 54 F Germany Maria Arend 13 F Germany Catherina Arend 12 F Germany

Nicholas Arend

Nicolas Arend born March 17, 1832, Hachy; married November 9, 1858, St Joseph, Tiffin; death March 17, 1903, Paulding, Paulding Co Marie Rosalie Menus born September 4, 1833, Châtillon; Children: Nicholas Peter Henry born October 10, 1864, Hicksville, Defiance County; death March 29, 1943, Center, Carroll County John born January 10, 1866, Frenchtown; death September 17, 1951, New Riegel Joseph born 1869 George born March 13, 1874, Bascomb; married Eunice J Flagg; death November 21, 1957, Paulding Martin born November 11, 1876, Tiffin; death February 2, 1944, Hicksville, Defiance County Rosa born February 1883; death January 27, 1923, Paulding

Tiffin, Seneca County, 1860 census Moser Taylor Le Havre to New Orleans, May 25, 1854 Nichol Ourand 26 M clerk Luxemburg 522 Arends Nicolas 22 M USA Belgium Rosa Ourand 20 F Belgium Orlando from Le Havre to New York June 9, 1849 Nichol Ourand 1 M Ohio Rosalie Menus Belgie New York

Dominick Arend

Dominick Arend born March 12, 1834, Hachy; married Catharine Niederkohr, January 31, 1860, Seneca County; death November 14, 1884, Big Spring Twp; buried Frenchtown Catharine Niederkohr born 1838, Sampont, Hachy; death January 5, 1911, Adrian, Seneca County Children: Dominick born January 4, 1861, Ohio; death November 13, 1893, Ohio Mary Agnes born December 16, 1864, Big Spring; death December 18, 1889 Anna born September 1, 1865; married John Rosselit, August 5, 1885; death October 13, 1940, Isabella County, Michigan Catherine born July 27, 1867, Ohio; ? John Baptist born August 8, 1869, Seneca; death December 23, 1944, Eden Jane born 1873; death March 12, 1902 97

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Joanna Mathilda born February 3, 1874, Ohio; death November 7, 1881 Lucy May born 1875; married Pius Warnimont; death 1948, Tiffin Isadore born September 4, 1877, Big Spring; death June 7, 1918, Tiffin Anna Clara born March 3, 1880, Big Spring; death September 9, 1916, Clinton

Pleasant, Seneca County, 1860 census June 1854 (from naturalization) Dominic Arnd 25 M Laborer Belgium Note: there was a Dominique Arend, born Luxembourg, Catharine Arnd 20 F Belgium 23 y.o., on board the Sarah Park Le Havre to New York, arrival April 15, 1857 note: married during the year

4) Child of Nicolas Arend born Fouches June 14, 1790 and Elisabeth Heymans born Tontelange October 28, 1802, married February 4, 1826, Hachy

Peter Arend

Pierre Arend birth born April 9, 1829 in Hachy; married Clara Mathias November 15, 1859 Frenchtown; death August 1862, buried Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery, Frenchtown Clara Mathias Birth May 4 1840 Frenchtown; married anew in 1866 with Nicholas Welter, born Luxembourg, September 15, 1825; death 11 Jul 1910 in Frenchtown, Darke children: Mary Louise born August 29, 1860, Berwick; married Joseph Mathias; death August 8, 1925, Frenchtown Peter Arend Josephine Elizabeth born October 9, 1862, Berwick; death November 2, 1928, Crawford, Wyandot County 1828/1862 Find a Grave

Big Spring, Seneca County, 1860 census March 1856 (from naturalization) Peter Arendt 29 M Farmer Germany Clara Arendt 19 F Germany

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André Auguste Backes born 1786; married Marie Madeleine Sosson, May 24, 1808, Vance; death November 6, 1858, Seneca County Marie Madeleine Sosson born December 26, Vance; death April 26, 1845, Vance

They had 13 children but most of them died early. The surviving were: Marie Agnes born September 19, 1811, Vance; married August 25, 1830, Willibroad Schreder at Vance Joseph born November 8, 1813, Vance ---> see bellow Nicholas Joseph born March 27, 1819, Vance ---> see bellow Marie Joseph born December 23, 1823, Vance; married Theodore Bilocq, January 13, 1850 at Rachecourt Rose born June 11, 1826, Vance; married Francois Peter George, 1854, New Riegel, Death December 23, 1905, Leopold, Perry County, Indiana Jacques born July 12, 1831, Vance

Big Spring, Seneca County, 1850 census (with his son Nicolas Joseph) Andrew Berks 60 M Germany

Pierre Joseph Backes

Peter (see note) Joseph Backes born November 8, 1813, Vance; married Catherine Josephine Dabfontaine July 31, 1839, Vance; married Susan Buquet, Seneca County; death November 13, 1888, Tifin, Defiance County Catherine Josephine Dabfontaine born February 4, 1813, Vance; death May 12, 1853, Vance Susan Buquet born April 4, 1818, Fouches(Hachy); widow of Jean Jacques Nepper (marriage February 23, 1843, Fouches); married Peter Joseph Backes, April 11, 1856, Seneca County (and on May 1, 1877, New riegel ?????) children of Catherine Josephine Dabfontaine Joseph-Augustin born April 14, 1836, Vance; married Jane Slaymaker, August 4, 1861, Seneca Co; ? Jean-Nicolas born May 19, 1840, Vance Victor, Pierre-Louis born February 9, 1842, Vance 98

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Jean-Baptiste, Victor born February 5, 1845, Vance; married Mary Ann Borer, October 12, 1869, New Riegel; death February 9, 1925, Delphos, Allen County Marie-Josephine born February 27, 1848; death April 24, 1849, Vance Marie-Josephine born March 26, 1850, Vance children of Susan Backes Catherine born may 31, 1858, New Riegel; married Joseph Kelbley, May 1, 1877, New Riegel; death November 7, 1943, New Riegel

Loudon, Seneca County, 1860 census Samuel Badger Le Havre to New York, December 15, 1853 Peter Backes 46 M Farmer Belgium Becken Joseph 40 M Farmer USA Belgium Susan Backes 40 F Belgium Becken Rose 27 F Farmer USA Belgium August Backes 23 M Farmer Belgium Becken Auguste 18 M USA Belgium Nicholas Backes 18 M Belgium Becken Nicolas 10 M USA Belgium Mary Backes 16 F Ohio Becken Anton 7 M USA Belgium Isaac Backes 14 M Ohio Becken Josephine 2 F USA Belgium Peter Backes 11 M Ohio Josephine Backes 10 F Belgium Notes: Michael Backes 8 M Ohio -no "Pierre Joseph" on the birth record, only "Joseph" -Rose Backes born June 11, 1826 Vance, sister of Joseph was on Catherine Backes 2 F Ohio board the Samuel Badger John Smith 28 M School teacher Holland Catherine Smith 18 F Belgium

Joseph Backes

Joseph Backeis born March 7, 1819 Vance; married February 25, 1843(1845?) in Seneca Co; death June 5, 1885 Frenchtown Maria Joanna Genin born Udange; death March 9, 1886; daughter of Ludovicus Genin and Margarita Dabfontaine children (12) Catherine born April 2, 1844, New Riegel; married John "Jacob" Warnimont, October 1,1867; death March 10, 1873, Big Spring Twp Jacob born August 15 1846 (baptism) Joseph born September 25, 1848, Big Spring; death April 1, 1890, Seneca Co. Philomena born August 7, 1853 (baptism); death November 11, 1860, Frenchtown John Peter born March 4, 1856, Seneca County; married Julia Ann Warnimont; death March 15, 1901, Frenchtown Nicholas born October 23, 1859, Big Spring Twp; death November 13, 1860, Frenchtown Nicholas Joseph born July 16, 1861, Big Spring Twp; married Mary Anna Minderman; death October 29, 1944, Big Spring Twp Francis (Frank) born September 12, 1864, Frenchtown; married Ollie M Smith, January 17, 1893; death December 7, 1946, Carey, Wyandot Co. Andrew Anthony born January 23, 1866, Carey; married Anna Maria Billock, January 30, 1888; married Louisa Billock, February 19, 1895; death June 10, 1939, Toledo, Lucas County Louis born October 11, 1870, Adrian; married Alice Battenfield; death April 4, 1950, Pike County

Big Spring, Seneca County, 1850 census Waverly Le Havre to New York, June 4, 1839 Joseph Bockes 27 M Germany Nicolas Backey 19 M Belgium USA

Mary J Bockes 23 F Germany Catharine Bockes 6 F Ohio Jacob Bockes 4 M Ohio Joseph Bockes 2 M Ohio

NICHOLAS BAKEIS. farmer. P. O. Adrian, was born in Big Spring Township, this county, son of Joseph (a farmer) and Jane (Jenning) Bakeis, natives of Belgium, former born March 7, 1820, latter born May 25, 1825; they were married February 25, 1845, and were the parents of twelve children, six of whom are now living: Joseph, John. Nicholas. Frank. Andrew and Lewis. Joseph Bakeis, the father of this family, died June 5, 1885, aged sixty -five years, two months and twenty-nine days. Our subject, along with his brothers, is managing the homestead farm, comprising 152 acres of good land, where the family has resided nearly forty-three years. They are all members of the Catholic Church at St. Nicholas.

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Belgians in Haumont, Nord, France in 1906

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Rue Caroli Mary Name Birth Place of Birth Nationality Status Occupation 1/1/1 SONNAERT, Ernest 1874 Ciply Belgian head journalier 1/1/2 LEMAITRE, Marie 1876 Chatelineau Belgian wife 1/1/3 SONNAERT, Lea 1898 Hautmont Belgian child 1/1/4 SONNAERT, Laure 1900 Hautmont Belgian child 1/1/5 SONNAERT, Lucienne 1903 Hautmont Belgian child 1/2/6 CHAPELLE, Adolphe 1864 Haulchin Belgian head journalier 1/2/7 GRASSART, Hermance 1864 Joumont Belgian wife 1/2/8 CHAPELLE, Maurice 1893 Rousies Belgian child 1/3/9 SCULIER, Leon 1886 Limont-Fontaine Belgian head lamineur 1/3/10 PILATTE, Marie 1888 Hautmont Belgian concubine

4/6/19 RENSON, Felix 1869 Jamiouls Belgian head chef tourneur 4/6/20 GINET, Alzire 1864 Jamiouls Belgian wife 4/6/21 RENSON, Justine 1894 Jamiouls Belgian child 4/6/22 RENSON, Celestin 1895 Jamiouls Belgian child

7/10/31 MAITTE, Fernand 1874 Berlaimont French head employe 7/10/31 BERDAL, Augustine 1876 Genly Belgian wife 7/10/32 MAITTE, Fernand 1905 Hautmont French child 7/10/33 MAITTE, Jean 1905 Hautmont French child 7/10/34 GODART, Germaine 1893 Cousobre Belgian cousin 7/11/35 JENNEBAUFFE, Oscar 1857 Chievres Belgian head gare brasseur 7/11/36 GODART, Celine 1859 Quevy-le-Pont Belgian wife 7/11/37 JENNEBAUFFE, Celeste 1884 Quevy-le-Pont Belgian child 7/11/38 JENNEBAUFFE, Lea 1893 Hautmont Belgian child

8/12/39 MAJOIS, Edmond 1870 Frameries Belgian head charpentier 8/12/40 TROGNEE, Elvire 1870 Cousobre French wife 8/12/41 MAJOIS, Edmond 1897 Hautmont Belgian child 8/12/42 MAJOIS, Pierre 1898 Hautmont Belgian child 8/14/48 DELAIRE, Lucien 1848 Vaulx Belgian head manouvrier 8/14/49 JOLY, Marie-Therese 1850 Sobre St Gery Belgian wife 8/14/50 DELAIRE, Rene 1891 Hautmont Belgian child apprenti mouleur 8/14/51 DELAIRE, Lucia 1893 Hautmont Belgian child

12/21/83 BERTRAND, Louis 1880 Chinz Belgian boarder puddleur 12/22/84 BRAET, Ivon 1859 Bruges Belgian head cisailleur

13/23/85 LEDUC, Philippe 1852 Aulnoye Belgian head maitre mason 13/23/86 COSSART, Celestine 1853 Salesches French servant servant

17/28/106 LUCAS, Desiree 1838 Auret Belgian head journalier

18/32/111 WILLEM, Jean 1852 Liege Belgian head forgeron 18/32/112 BECK, Marie 1847 Chenee Belgian wife

19/35/118 TRICOT, Theodule 1868 Hautmont French head chaudronnier 19/35/119 SMALL, Gustavia 1871 Marchienne-au-Pont Belgian wife 19/35/120 TRICOT, Gaston 1895 Hautmont French child 19/35/121 TRICOT, Marie 1898 Hautmont French child 19/36/122 ANTOINE, Charles 1846 Hoduster Belgian head journalier 19/36/123 ANTOINE, Emile 1887 Hautmont Belgian son forgeron 19/36/124 ANTOINE, Marie 1887 Hautmont Belgian 19/36/125 ANTOINE, Augusta 1888 Hautmont Belgian 19/36/126 ANTOINE, Leona 1895 Hautmont Belgian 100

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Name Birth Place of Birth Nationality Status Occupation 21/38/132 BERDAL, Alexandre 1873 Frameries Belgian head

24/43/148 HERQUIN, Emile 1864 Frameries Belgian head tonnelier 24/43/149 HERQUIN, Armande 1885 Hautmont Belgian child 24/43/150 HERQUIN, Fernand 1888 Hautmont Belgian child 24/43/151 VARLETTE, Adele 1845 Hautmont French mother-in-law

25/44/152 CHARTIER, Auguste 1872 Thuin Belgian Head mouleur 25/44/153 MATTEN, Florence 1870 Thuin Belgian wife 25/44/154 CHARTIER, Marguerite 1896 Thuin Belgian child 25/44/155 CHARTIER, Vital 1898 Thuin Belgian child 25/44/156 CHARTIER, Auguste 1903 Thuin Belgian child

27/48/166 ROUSSEAU, Emile 1867 Hautmont French head mecanicien 27/48/167 WERS, Lebutine 1867 Montigny Belgian wife 27/48/168 ROUSSEAU, Emilie 1887 Hautmont French child traceur 27/48/169 ROUSSEAU, Emile 1888 Hautmont French child 27/48/170 ROUSSEAU, Leontine 1892 Hautmont French child

28/50/177 CAUWENBERG, Jeannette 1865 Quievrain Belgian head 28/50/178 BOISART, Fernand 1897 Mons Belgian child 28/50/179 BOISART, Elise 1898 Mons Belgian child 28/50/180 PERRIN, Amedee 1866 Kreutage French boarder mouleur 28/50/181 BOISART, Suzanne 1896 Mons Belgian child 28/51/182 VANDERHAEGEN, Octavie 1849 Okegem Belgian head 28/51/183 VANDERKELEN, Maurice 1886 Marchienne au Pont Belgian child mason 28/51/184 VANDERKELEN, Gustave 1887 Marchienne au Pont Belgian child chauffeur 28/51/185 BRISSY, Ferdinand 1890 Hautmont French gdson 28/51/186 VANDERKELEN, Henri 1884 Marchienne au Pont Belgian child journalier

33/58/208 WARNANT, Eugene 1845 Joncret Belgian head directeur d'usine 33/58/209 PLATTEEL, Leonie 1851 Namur Belgian wife 33/58/210 WARNANT, Alfred 1876 La Louviere Belgian son employe 33/58/211 PIETTE, Marie 1864 Masiny St Jean Belgian domestique cuisinere

34/59/212 BOUILLEZ, Victor 1867 Quevy le Petit Belgian head jardinier 34/59/213 DUMONT, Marie 1869 Roineries French wife 34/59/214 BOUILLEZ, Germaine 1891 Hautmont Belgian child 34/59/215 BOUILLEZ, Leon 1894 Hautmont Belgian child 34/59/216 BOUILLEZ, Marcel 1898 Hautmont Belgian child 34/59/217 BOUILLEZ, Gaston 1899 Hautmont Belgian child 34/59/218 BOUILLEZ, Marthe 1905 Hautmont Belgian child 34/59/219 DUMONT, Henri 1840 Vawegies au bois French father-in-law

37/63/229 CHERON, Alphonse 1870 Ferriere-le-Grand French head journalier 37/63/230 MINET, Emilie 1871 Seraing Belgian wife 37/63/231 CHERON, Fernand 1896 Hautmont French child 37/63/232 CHERON, Julien 1904 Hautmont French child 37/63/233 CHERON, Pierre 1898 Hautmont French child 37/63/234 MINET, Julien 1832 Weris Belgian father-in-law 37/63/235 CHERON, Virginie 1894 Hautmont French child 37/64/236 DE VLEESCHAUWER, Isidore 1859 St Josse ten Noode Belgian head journalier 37/64/237 DE VLEESCHAUWER, Constance 1890 St Josse ten Noode Belgian daughter

40/69/259 MOUCHART, Fernand 1882 Hautmont Belgian head forgeron 40/69/260 DEBOURLE, Julie 1883 Hautmont French wife 40/69/261 MOUCHART, Fernand 1902 Hautmont French child 40/69/262 MOUCHART, Louis 1903 Hautmont French child

41/72/269 JOLYN, Camille 1881 Biercee Belgian Head

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Memoir – Part 4 by Fred G. LaViolette, © 2006 submitted by Dr. Paul LaViolette and Kingsley D LaViolette first published on http://etheric.com/Fred.html by Dr. Paul LaViolette used here with his permission

Note from the editor : Many thanks to Kingsley D LaViolette and Dr. Paul LaViolette for so kindly sharing their family’s story. It sure gave me an additional perspective into my research on the allied Hurlet family. A more complete portrait of Fred LaViolette can be found at http://etheric.com/Fred.html and stands as beautiful tribute to his amazing life. While reading this account, please keep in mind that while recollections always bring emotional substance to a family tree, they should be used only as clues to find factual data in the research process. I tried to extricate the « Belgian » part of the story but there is no way to disconnect the other branches so I chose to simply © 2008 P. LaViolette let Fred LaViolette tell his story without making any changes. I have added a footnote here and there to try and http://etheric.com/Fred.html help the research match the story to the facts presented earlier.

Chapter 9 Eventually I came to realize that I and several other kids: including 3/22 Julien diagnosed with cancer Donald Rice and Hilden Rector were new to school and were also In September of 1920 Katie started high school in Kalamazoo and in the first grade. All the other kids were in other grades; some in lived with Aunt Louise on John St. Her help on the farm was the second, some in the 4th, and some in the 7th and all in the same greatly missed. During the summer of 1921 Papa began to one-room school building. complain of indigestion and some stomach pains. He went to see About the second week we were in school, the teacher called up his friend, Dr. Gifford, who studied his case and suggested that he the first graders for reading recitation. There was a long bench (like go for further tests to the University Hospital in Ann Arbor. a park bench) at one side of her desk where we sat in a line. She Arrangements were made and Papa went to Ann Arbor on the called each of us to recite individually by reading words from a InterUrban railroad. I remember when he returned home after the thin book with pictures of the objects described by the printed tests and said to Mama "Well, Old Woman, they tell me I have words. The first two pupils read very hesitantly and made several cancer." Mama and Papa embraced for a long time. They both wrong guesses. Then it was my turn so I took my cue from the knew it was a death sentence. They put Papa on a special diet and others and looked at each word and after a suitable time scheduled him for an operation that fall. pronounced it. After I'd gone through about six words the teacher I remember that yogurt was one of the items Papa was allowed to stopped me and said "Fred, you can read faster than that can't you? eat. Our cows gave plenty of nice creamy milk and, although Go ahead and read the rest of the page." So, without putting in the yogurt was not a regular item on the LaViolette table, Mama made false hesitation, I read the rest of the page. That head-start greatly it to perfection. When she made the first batch and gave Papa a big helped me through the First grade and at the end of the school year serving of it sprinkled with powdered cinnamon, he called to me I was promoted to Third grade. to have some. "Come Fedix, just try this. It's better than ice cream!" 1-2/23 Julien at Ann Arbor Hospital for operation After much encouragement I reluctantly tried a spoonful. The When the time came for Papa's operation, we packed a few unexpected slightly bitter taste of the lactic acid convinced me that suitcases and traveled on the Interurban train to Ann Arbor. Katie it did not taste like ice cream and that I did not like it. stayed out of high school to be with us during this critical time for 9/22 - 6/23 Fred attended 1st grade at Williams school and was the family. I was too young to be left alone and with Papa in the promoted to 3rd grade. hospital, Mama felt that she could not but stay at Papa's side. After That September I had to start school. Mama prepared a sandwich taking Papa to the University Hospital, we rented a "light and some fruit to take along in a paper bag and walked with me the housekeeping" 3/4 miles to Williams School. Then she knelt down and put her room a few blocks from the hospital. Our room had a double bed hand on my shoulder and said "Freddie, this is your lunch. Now we with space for a folding cot, a small table, and a two-burner gas will go in and meet the teacher." That was fine until we got inside stove. That gave us a place to eat and sleep but little more. Mama that big room and I saw all those strange kids looking at me. I just spent every day at Papa's bedside and Katie did her best to keep me froze! I was horrified. Mama and the teacher exchanged a few occupied. words and then Mama turned to go and the teacher reached out for One day she took me to the university museum where there were my hand. I panicked and ran. Then Mama had to come back and displayed several skeletons of prehistoric monsters and many glass she and the teacher took me to a desk and got me calmed down. I cases with specimens of stuffed animals and insects. I was don't recall how I got through that day but the next day it was completely fascinated by the place. I particularly remember one almost the same thing all over again. Somehow I got through that day later on when she took me out for a walk and told me that there too and by the third day the kids didn't seem so strange and I was was a movie which she thought I would enjoy and which she able to force myself to go to school without Mama’s company. wanted very much to see. It was called "The Sheik of Arabie." I 102

BELGIAN LACES #149 insisted we should go to the museum again and refused to go with Chapter 10 her to see that movie. My behavior that day left in my mind a With my father's death, Katie, who was 17 years old, realized that monument to my utter selfishness and lack of empathy. the role of family leadership fell squarely on herself. My mother To make matters worse, I became ill with German measles and had was too grief stricken to make plans or face new challenges. I was to be kept in the dark. That meant that all of us in that single rented only 7 1/2 years old and too young and immature to make family room had to be in the dark!!. That confinement seemed to me like decisions. And so, a few days after the funeral, Katie called a ages but finally the ordeal ended and I could go out again. family meeting to summarize our situation and lay a plan for our The day before the operation we all went to visit Papa and before survival. Besides my mother and I, she called in our neighbor and we left I remember Papa calling Mama to his bedside and trusted friend, Charlie Uphan. whispering to her. Then mama called for the head nurse and after much discussion the nurse arranged for privacy screens to be 9/23 Katie makes plans for a grocery store. She opened the meeting by pointing out that with Father's sickness, placed around Papa's bed so they could have some time together. With such a serious operation we all knew it could be the last time there had been no time for management of the farm and we were essentially without cash to live on. Then, she presented her plan. we would see Papa alive. The operation confirmed that he had cancer of the duodenum and a. First, she would get the old truck running and use it to it had advanced to the stage where it was considered incurable. We find a job in the city. That should provide enough income all returned home and during the following year he became weaker to see us through the winter. as the disease advanced. When it spread to the vagus nerve the pain b. Then she would prepare the store building for reopening became intolerable and he was given doses of morphine to control in the spring. it. Eventually, even this didn't help completely. He would She then questioned each of us to make certain we understood what call out "Old Woman, bring me my shotgun! I know I am going to was involved and whether we agreed with her proposal. When I die. Why do I have to suffer this terrible pain?" Mama called Katie was young, Katie always treated me as an adult, and of course, I and told her to go to Uncle Camille and have him bring his truck. agreed with her plan but really I had no concept of the risks She and Uncle Camille loaded all of Papa's guns in the truck so he involved. Charlie said that her plan seemed very good. But, he could store them at his place where Papa could not get to them. warned, only operate the store during the summer months. When Katie did not return to high school that fall as now it was necessary the growing season is over, the farmers who had crop failures for someone to be at Papa's bedside at all times. But still he did not would be asking for credit. In one summer season, she could not lose his sense of humor. When a farmer friend came to call on him, build up enough capital to survive that financial load. he said "John. When I get down there, I'll shovel a pile of coal for 10/23 - 6/24 Katie worked for Bell Telephone as a telephone you!" At one point Mama told me to go in to see Papa. He wanted operator to talk to me. I was now seven years old and I knew but didn't want Katie was able to get the truck running within a few days and went to think of it, that Papa was dying. I didn't know what to say to directly to Aunt Louise in downtown Kalamazoo. Aunt Louise him. He said to me "Felix, I'll be leaving all of you very soon and suggested she apply at the Michigan Bell Telephone Company I want you to promise me that you will always take good care of which had been advertising for telephone operators. The your mother." Suddenly, the tears burst from my eyes and my supervisor who interviewed her was sufficiently impressed that she throat choked up so I could not say a word. I just ran out of the offered her a starting position on the night shift beginning the next room so he wouldn't see me crying. week. When Katie reported for work the following Monday 9 Sept. 1923 Julien dies at farm afternoon, she was ushered through rooms full of telephone relay The end came on September 9, 1923. I remember that both Aunt racks connected to huge bundles of wire running from panel to Katie and Aunt Louise were there to help my mother face this panel through overhead trays. Finally she was brought to the switch crisis. I was in the living room when I heard Mama scream and room where telephone operators were already working at switch then my aunts and my sister came out supporting Mama and led panels with hundreds of line jacks arranged in a matrix. When a her to another bedroom off the living room. They talked to her for call came in, a light lit on a horizontal panel to indicate which plug over an hour before she could be consoled. She had never brought carried the active call. herself to realize that Papa would die. During all the rest of her life, The operator then picked up the plug and its associated cable and she never removed her wedding ring and sixteen years later when plugged it into one of the hundreds of jacks on the panel facing her. she died, Katie requested that she be buried with the ring on her The supervisor explained the numbering system for the jacks and finger. how to tell which jack to select in completing the incoming call. 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BELGIAN LACES #149 automatic relay systems and only long distance calls required were carefully curved and smoothed to avoid slivers and any human operators. discomfort. The toilet paper was provided by the latest out-of- Katie quickly mastered the switchboard work and thus fulfilled her season Sears & Roebuck catalog spiked through one corner to the first goal of providing an income for the family. This work was not back wall easy for her however. She had to drive twelve miles into Mama and I usually started our breakfast before Katie was up Kalamazoo each day to report for work at 4:00 p.m. and return because after returning home from the night shift at the Telephone home again after her shift ended at midnight. We moved into the Co. she seldom was in bed before 1:00 am. One morning she came upper floor of the store building which facilitated our work in down to breakfast with us and said "I had the most terrible dream preparing the first floor of the grocery for the spring opening. last night! In my dream, I was driving home after work and when I came to the crossing of the Michigan Central tracks on West Main 1923 Playing doctor, Bella Donna for lunch St., the gate came down just as I started across the track. I looked 9/23 - 6/24 - We lived on the farm and Fred attended 3rd grade at up and saw a fast train approaching from no more than 50 feet Williams school all year. Mama and I lived in the house for the away. I gave the truck full throttle and broke through the wooden winter and I was enrolled in the third grade at the Williams School. gate as the train roared past behind me!" The next morning when I remember that some days during that winter of 1923-24 were very she came downstairs she said "I had exactly the same dream last cold. Mama had made a nice warm coat for me but she was not night. It was so frightening!" satisfied that it was warm enough to protect me from the cold wind The next night when she arrived home, she woke us up to tell us during the long walk to school. So when it was very cold, she that the dream actually happened just as she had dreamed it! When would wrap newspapers around my chest under the overcoat. That it was over and the train had passed, she parked the truck and went kept me nice and warm during the ¾ mile walk to school and Miss back to the guard house where she found the signal man who Hoffman, our teacher, was so impressed with the idea that she should have operated the gates. He was very apologetic and suggested the other students should do the same thing on the bitter admitted that he had dozed off and put the gate down at the last cold days. second. Mama had ordered a chord of wood from one of the farmers and During the days, Katie worked on the farm. We still had two horses had it stored below the verandah just outside the kitchen door. That and two cows which needed care and Katie had planned to operate winter Charlie Uphan would stop down every week or two to split the farm as well as the store. We all worked to prune and tie up the logs for the living room stove. I tried to use the hatchet to split grape vines and to prune the dewberries. In the spring, she gave up kindling wood and smaller pieces for the kitchen cook stove. the Telephone Co. job and its night shift work to devote full time Mama decided that this was too dangerous for me to do so I was to the store opening and farm work. relieved of the kindling wood detail. I did help to pump water from the deep well. I quickly learned to operate the control for the wind 6/24 Katie opens grocery store for summer months only and we mill and could carry a bucket of water the twenty feet from the well hired a Mr. Everets to work the farm. to the kitchen. The pump would sometimes freeze up during the By mid-March Katie had completed preparations for the store very cold weather and I would thaw it by pouring boiling water opening and one afternoon before reporting for her evening shift at into it from a teakettle. the telephone company, she met with Mr. Cady of the Lee & Cady The old farmhouse had no insulation and we kept warm by having Wholesale Grocers. She explained her plans to Mr.Cady and asked a good fire going all day long in the kitchen range and in the big if he would advance $100 worth of groceries to her on consignment living room stove. At night, when the fires were allowed to go out, so she could reopen the Lone Star Grocery. Mr.Cady listened the bucket of water always kept in the kitchen often would be carefully and after several questions, he complemented her an the frozen by morning. thoroughness of her planning and agreed to help her get started. I remember that there was a big tank in the attic above the kitchen That night she gave notice to her supervisor that she would be that had been designed to serve as storage for the domestic water. terminating her work at the Telephone Company effective at the That system had been abandoned years before when it froze up end of the month. She bought a large roll of white grocery paper during a cold snap and burst some of the piping. and, working on a large table on the second floor of the grocery The Uphan house on the next farm was at one time equipped with store, she painted a sign in foot-high letters announcing the grand an indoor toilet. That also had been abandoned because of cold opening of the Lone Star Grocery. One week before the opening, weather failures. The only reliable toilet facility for the farm in she brought out the old extension ladder and fastened the paper those days was the "outhouse." I remember very well the times sign high up on the store front. She arranged to pickup the initial during winter nights when I had to get up from a warm bed and put consignment of groceries at the end of the month and opened the on my winter clothes to walk outside some fifty feet to the store on April 1, 1924. The store was an immediate success and outhouse. Our outhouse was a "two-holer," a spacious 4 foot by 4 within a week she returned to Lee & Cady with cash to purchase foot roofed wooden enclosure with a 14 inch wide seat board an additional consignment. across the back and two appropriately sized openings whose edges 104

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During March Katie had planted an acre of potatoes on the "homeroom" with many times more students than Williams school muckland at the west end of the farm and by the end of June they had in the whole school. These kids were more aggressive than the had grown to large healthy plants. But during the early morning farmer boys in the country school and in addition the teachers gave hours of July 4th there was a totally unexpected frost at the low the assignments to the whole class - not just to me personally. Then end of the farm which left the potato plants as a dead black carpet the class was dismissed and we all left and I could never be certain on the muckland soil. After great effort to dig them up, we were of what was required. As a result my record was spotty. Some days able to recover a few bushel of potatoes only an inch in diameter. I would excel while on others I didn't know what was going on. At least, no one raised any questions and I just bobbled along and We did have a fairly good crop of dewberries that summer. The finally became accustomed to the crowd of kids. That in itself was money earned from the store allowed us to hire pickers and every valuable training for what was ahead in the fifth grade at Lincoln morning we were up at 4:00 am to load the crates of berries on the School. truck and drive them to the farmers market 12 miles away in We opened the store for the second summer in June 1925 and lived Kalamazoo. During these trips Mama would stay on the farm to on the second floor of the store building. Mama and Katie decided get the pickers started for the next days sale. Then, by 9:00 am that it was not profitable for us to operate the store and run the farm Mama would open the store and as soon as we returned from the as well so they placed an ad in the Kalamazoo Gazette for a farm market Katie would go to the field to oversee the picking and to hand. They had a response from a Mr. Everets who had a room pack the quart boxes of berries into crates for the next days delivery near the center of the city. Katie sent a letter in reply that we would to market. When the crates and quart boxes were used up, we be in Kalamazoo that week and set a date when we would meet would stop at the factory on the way home from the Farmer's him to discuss the work. Strawberries were ripening then so we Market to buy a new supply. The factory was an old barn just off were preparing to bring the first crates to market that week. When the west side of the road at the foot of Westnedge hill. The wooden Katie and Mama sold the berries they drove downtown to meet Mr. crates were made to hold 16 one-quart boxes. The boxes Everets but then discovered that they had either left the letter at themselves were made of very thin (1/32") wood bent on a form to home or had lost it while at the market. They remembered the name shape the box and stapled to a wood ribbon around the top edge of of the street but not the street number so Katie drove to the street the box. No plastics were available to make such boxes at that time and parked the little truck, got out and walked up to the house and all containers were made of wood, cardboard, or corrugated nearest the truck and rang the doorbell. A man came to the door cardboard. and said "I am Mr. Everets. Can I help you?" Katie was speechless One day Katie went into town with the old truck and returned with as she had expected it would take a house to house inquiry to find a new Model-T Ford pick-up truck. This model had the special him. This was another example of Katie's clairvoyance and as a feature that the truck platform could be removed and replaced by a result we had a hired man for the summer. "rumble" seat! Of course, this Model T, as all Ford cars at the time, That fall we moved back into the city and Katie took a job at the corresponded to Henry Ford's advice that "you can have the color Kalamazoo Stationary Co. We rented an upstairs apartment near of your choice as long as you choose black." That small truck had her work and near the Lincoln Elementary School which I attended lighter springs than the big truck had so the berries arrived to that year. Also, later Mama was hired at the Stationary Co. market in much better condition than before. That September we again closed the store and moved into the city where we took an apartment near the Lincoln elementary school. One night during the summer of 1924 I believe it was, Uncle Mama and Katie worked at the Kalamazoo Stationery Co. just a Camille's house caught on fire when they were all away. Before he few blocks east of the apartment and I attended 5th grade at could be reached, the house was a blazing inferno and when it was Lincoln School. Katie rented a typewriter and with the help of a over nothing but the brick chimney stood above the foundation. All few library books she practiced typing that winter. of my father’s guns were destroyed in that fire. One evening Katie and Mama were talking about how nice and In September, Katie decided to close the store for the winter as warm our apartment was and since there was an extra bedroom Charlie Uphan had suggested and she found another job this time wouldn't it be nice to have Grandma over for a visit some weekend. as a secretary at the Kalamazoo Stove Co. whose slogan was We all thought that to be a good idea so that same weekend we "Kalamazoo - Direct to You." drove out to Plainwell to see her. She did not warm up to the idea That fall we all moved into the City of Kalamazoo and took a room very quickly but finally she agreed to come just for an overnight in Aunt Katie's brick tenement building on Lovell Street across visit. Mama had made a delicious chicken dinner and we all had a from her store building. Mama took a job as a seamstress at the very nice evening together. Later, in the evening when it became Kalamazoo Pant Company where Aunt Louise was employed and dark, we made sure that Grandma had everything she needed for I attended 4th grade at Harding school on Lovell St. the night and we all went to bed. After a few hours, Katie came That was a difficult year for me. Suddenly I was without the small into my room and said "Have you seen Grandma? She isn't in her familiar group of schoolmates I had known in the third grade and room!" So we looked for her and finally we found her sitting in the in the midst of a swarm of strange faces. I found myself in a 105

BELGIAN LACES #149 unheated stairwell. She just could not sleep in that warm bedroom! of it. After playing at his house for a while, we decided to walk to We had to quickly close the hot air register and open the windows my house not by following the road but by cutting through the in her bedroom. It took some time to get the room cooled down to fields on a diagonal to the roads. That made for a shorter walk but the "sleeping" temperature Grandma was accustomed to and we brought us into an unexpected adventure. About halfway across the could never again get her to come for an overnight visit. fields, as we entered Mr. Williams land we began to see a few sand burs. The further we went the more sand burs we encountered so 1926-1927 6th grade at Williams, Our time capsule message, we stopped to consider our options. Since we had completed three- The Book of Knowledge, V. 6 fourths of the total distance, we decided it was best to proceed but Katie worked as executive secretary to Oriental Flower Co. by taking longer strides and thus minimize the number of times our (Chinese paper water flowers.) Earl and the sand burrs. Adventures feet touched the ground. Soon we were in a dense growth of burrs with my cousins: chocolate covered peanuts, the magic lantern, where there was no longer any clear places to step. Then we were frog's legs, butterflies, photography. 1927 – Our time capsule. forced to run faster to take even longer strides. It was painful but Summer 1926 - We moved back to the farm during the summer of soon we were out of the sandbur field and were home where we 1926 and I attended Williams school for all of my 6th grade. About could sit down to pull out the burrs. We spent the next hour pulling this same time we entered into an agreement with a Mr. Ed. Dowell burrs and the next three days with sore feet. to run the farm on a share-crop basis and use the farm house as a That year we had an excellent teacher, a Mrs. Bissell from Grand residence for his family of five. We then lived on the second floor Rapids. Her son, Donald, also attended school with us. He was a of the old store building. I believe part of the deal was that he very pleasant and intelligent boy. In recent years I have wondered provided the firewood for us to do the cooking and heat the store if he was related to the family that founded Bissell Industries in because I don't remember having to cut firewood that year. He had Grand Rapids. One day in the spring of 1927 Mrs. Bissell called us three daughters, Lottie, Beatrice, and Gladys whom I found rather all together during the morning recess and announced that we repulsive. The second suffered from a mental deficiency. Although would make a time capsule. She produced a one-quart canning jar she was 13 years old, she was only in the second grade. I remember with a new rubber seal. Then she took a sheet of paper from a her continually drooling long strings of saliva. The other two girls writing pad and wrote across the top the words "A time capsule left were more normal than their sister but I avoided association with by the pupils of Williams School." She wrote the date below that all of them as much as possible. and had each of us write our name and our grade in school. Then That summer Katie brought home a black and white puppy which she folded the sheet and carefully placed it in the jar and closed the she named Queenie. Bingo went through a period of rejection and cover tightly. She had Vincent Rice dig a hole in the yard about retreated to a hiding place under the porch of the farmhouse. It twenty-five feet west of the northwest corner of the school didn't take Queenie long to get acquainted with the roaming dogs building. She placed our time capsule in the hole along with a small of the neighborhood and on one occasion after a whole days tree she had brought to school and then had Vincent refill the hole. absence she returned smelling strongly of skunk. Katie sent her Two of the girls filled a bucket from the pump on the other side of outside to stay until she recovered her normal odor and was given the schoolhouse and watered the little tree. Two years later, during a thorough scrubbing. She was also put through a pantomime my 8th year at school, the little tree was still growing. Now, eighty treatment to make her ashamed of her skunk smell. When we years later, I wonder if there is still any trace left of our tree and would hold our noses and say "pieu! pieu! pieu!" she would cringe. whether our time capsule is still there. But soon when her hunting friends came around again she joined 1927-1928 Lincoln school, 7th grade. We lived in the second them with glee. This time she received a full blast at close range floor apartment at Newall's house Mama and Katie worked at Kal. and knew she would surely be punished. So when she returned Stat. Co. I spent all my spare time reading books from the library home and found no one around, she decided to hide herself. The including many of Paul duChalliu's books on explorations in hiding place she selected was deep in Katie's bed. The entire Africa. Queenie stayed in the car at night. Queenie back to the bedding from mattress and pillows to sheets and blankets had to be farm. (pic). Visit to Grandma to bring her new shoes - Her reaction: thrown out in the yard for a long period of airing. This time after "Him too goot pur me." Queenie was fumigated, she was kept chained up for a long time 1928-1929 Williams school, 8th grade. Ed Uphan on magnetism. to prevent her return to a life of crime. Repairing the windmill. My baseball career. Mama and Fred on In the country, the greatest joy comes to a farm boy when school farm. Katie worked fall and winter as live-in maid. In spring, she is out and with the warmer weather he can take off his shoes and Joined Edith Davisson at Kal.C.C. June 1929 8th grade graduation. socks and go "barefoot." The first few weeks were the hardest The beauty of the farm. because our feet were still tender from their winter confinement 6/29-8/29 Mama took summer job at the Princess Redfeather and we could feel every little stone and bump on the ground. Indian Medicine Camp. We gave Queenie to Charles Uphan. Shortly after school was out in June of 1925, I went to visit Earl 8/29 Robert Hiemstra died. who lived about as far East of Williams School as we lived north

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Wisconsin Shorts: Excerpts from the Algoma Record Herald By Régine Brindle

Rosiere - Mrs. Emil WAUTLET is confined to a Green Bay hospital, having undergone a serious operation. We all wish her a speedy recovery. The Misses Mabel GILSON and Lucy NAZE are visiting with relatives at Green Bay this week. Miss Evangeline GUILLETTE is spending several days visiting with relatives at Union. Harold HERLACHE, Gardner, called on business matters here Saturday. Miss Louise MASSART was the guest of http://216.56.24.180/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=308bc503-a8e6-44bc- 9345-1fb200abda8c/wiagpl00/20140616/00001042Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Jule GUILLETTE and son Nelson, accompanied by Mrs. Fabian GILSON, motored to Green Bay Monday to visit their sister Mrs. GLIME, Lena who is confined at a Green Bay Hospital Algoma Record Herald, Vol 55 Issue 40 16 March 19286

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Belgians on the WWI Draft Cards: Michigan By Chuck Van den Eeden Detroit, Michigan Name Birth Date Birthplace Occupation Employer Deviaene, Richard 7 Feb 1891 Tiegem, Belgium carpenter A Denirene Devidts, Werner 15 Aug 1889 Alast, Belgium milk peddler Belle Isle Creamery Co. Devolder, Adolph 10 Feb 1890 Wygene, Belgium moulder Emery Wheel Co Devolder, Edmond 1 Dec 1891 Rousselare, Belgium laborer Ireland Manufacturing Co Devolder, Rene 6 Apr 1894 Luthlomed, Belgium farmer C Moore Devos, Aime 31 Jan 1888 Goethem, Belgium varnisher Dodge Bros. Motor Co. Devos, Caesar 25 Feb 1890 Tervuren, Belgium machinist Packard Motor Car Co Devos, Cyril 4 May 1896 Ghent, Belgium ? Detroit Creamery Devos, Louis 30 Mar 1896 Antwerp/Brasehaet, Belgium teamster C Zubrigg Devos, Medard 28 Mar 1891 San??, Belgium machinist Packard Motor Car Co Devriendt, Henry 27 Dec 1888 Staaden, WF, Belgium carpenter J Van Duvighe Devrieze, Reme 24 Apr 1890 St Lievens, Belgium laborer Dominion Sugar Co Devroe, Joseph 12 Sep 1890 Belgium bead cutter Morgan & Wright Devurlder, Camille 15 Oct 1886 Kortemark, Belgium carpenter G Debulder Devuyst, August 16 Nov 1887 Belgium bricklayer ? Devuyst, August 18 Dec 1886 Holdergem, Belgium helper/bricklayer Peter Dillard Dewachter, Dewey 3 Oct 1887 Thommen, Belgium mechanic Hudson Motor Car Co Dewandel, Arthur Joseph 24 Mar 1889 Ghent, Belgium fan assembly Detroit Fire Carrier Dewey, Ralph 1 Nov 1887 Eseghem, Belgium chemist Morgan/Wright Dewilde, Remide 20 Apr 1890 Meulelbeke, Belgium clerk King Motor Co Dewine, Leo 25 Dec 1889 Belgium bartender Wy????, Restaurant Dewispelaeze, Alphonsus 8 Jan 1893 Adeghem, Belgium laborer ? Dewitte, Polydore 12 Apr 1888 Alast, Belgium painter A Huard Dewolf, Alois 22 Mar 1887 Lendelade, Belgium driver G Vickary Dewolf, Cerill 7 Feb 1889 Kruch??, EF, Belgium laborer H Vanmarch Dewolf, Henry 4 Sep 1886 Belgium Zeglecueyn Stone Co. Zeblecueyn Stone Co. Dewolf, Henry 17 Aug 1897 handzame, Belgium ? Booth Motor Co Dewolf, Leo 23 Feb 1889 Belgium carpenter R Desmet Dewolf, Richard 14 Jan 1891 Dixmunde, Belgium janitor ? Land Co Dewulf, Andre 7 Aug 1894 Menen, Belgium painter self Deygers, Richard 14 Mar 1889 Tatlte?, Belgium machine operator Michigan Ammonia Dhaese, Gustave 18 Aug 1893 Lede, EF, Belgium machinist Dodge Bros Motor Car Co Dhase, Theophiel 9 May 1887 Ghent, Belgium assembler Saxon Motor Car Co Dhelbt, Victor 3 Apr 1893 Bisseghem, Belgium farm laborer unemployed Dhondt, Henry 2 Jan 1887 Eeklo?, Belgium laborer unemployed Divito, Loue 28 Oct 1886 Antwerp, Belgium bartender D Gagro Diyvejonek, Emil 16 May 1894 Swevzeele, Belgium machinist Metalwood Mfg. Co Dobbelarr, Leon 29 Nov 1889 Oedelem, Belgium laborer unemployed Doenens, Arthur 1 Mar 1888 Hevel, Belgium driver ? Becker Doniker, Rimo D 29 Jul 1893 Belgium laborer unemployed Dosgult, Leon 18 Apr 1892 Kortemark, Belgium laborer unemployed Doskaut, Oscar 22 Jul 1889 Kortemark, Belgium bartender Campe/Kercheval Druwe, Cameal Nov 1890 Aardryh, Belgium teamster self Dubare, Julian 2 May 1893 Kortrijk, Belgium elevator operator A Kern Duberre, Hector 15 Feb 1896 Kortrijk, Belgium laborer Stroh Brewery Dubois, Remi 15 Jul 1890 Iseghem, Belgium laborer American Auto Trimming Co Ducastel, Maurice 15 Oct 1888 Menen, Belgium bartender J DeJouklier Dufour, Edward 30 Mar 1893 Wyngene, Belgium laborer unemployed Dugardain, Valere 24 Mar 1887 Loo, Belgium janitor Blessed Sacrament Church Dujardin, Arthur 20 Feb 1887 Lichtervelde, Belgium laborer Portland Cement Co 108

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Name Birth Date Birthplace Occupation Employer Dumon, Leon 17 Oct 1896 Roulers, Belgium Fisher Body Co. Dumon, Victor 20 Jan 1893 Rousselare, Belgium machinist Packard Motor Co. Dupont, Remi 27 Feb 1894 Eeghem, Belgium tailor Lammend Tailor Shop Duvriese, Baptist 12 Jan 1895 St Lievens/Esse, Belgium laborer unemployed Duyck, Emory 25 Jul 1893 Swevezeele, WF,Belgium grave digger Mt Olivit Cemetery Duyvejonck, Julis 12 Jun 1893 Sweogciale, Belgium Bartender Daniels, 107 Adair Edumond F Engels 31 Aug 1888 EF, Belgium laborer Wadeworth Body Co Eeckhout, August 22 Mar 1890 Engelmunster, Belgium laborer unemployed Eeckhout, Julien 12 Dec 1892 Swevzeele, WF, Belgium mechanic ? Eeckkhoute, Julius 4 Oct 1888 Sasevezeele? WF,Belgium mechanic/carpenter C. Demey Eelbode, Edmond L 9 Feb 1896 Wyngne, Belgium bottler Livoli Brewing Co. Eggarmont, Vazere 23 Nov 1889 Belgium laborer unemployed Eggermont, Camiel 15 Oct 1891 Belgium laborer unemployed Ehanwars, Richard 5 Nov 1888 Letthaugem, Belgium polisher Detroit Forge Co. Elckhout, Joseph 21 Jul 1890 Oostcamp, Belgium bricklayer W Lou Eloot, Emiel 3 Dec 1890 Haaltert, Belgium laborer M. Spencer Emanell, Albert 7 Aug 1889 Chekenk, Belgium laborer Tivoli Brewery Embo, Albert 12 Dec 1886 Handzuene, Belgium butcher self Emerck, Ceriel 6 Oct 1892 Wenken?, Belgium janitor? H. Bankhead Erkins, Victor 16 Apr 1892 Fouron Le Comte, Belgium machinist Dodge Bros Motor Car Co Everaerdt, Axheil 26 May 1889 Noorslede, Belgium blacksmith S Bick Ferbeke, Reene 21 Jan 1890 Aerceele, Belgium fireman Ideal Creamery Co. Ferret, Alfonse 17 Dec 1886 Rumbeke, Belgium plasterer A Desmet Feyert, Odrel 15 Sep 1892 St Louis/Derlyk, Belgium machinist Dodge Bros. Motor Co. Feys, Julion 3 Sep 1886 Ro----, Belgium lathe hand GM Motor Co. Fiers, George 18 Sep 1886 Heule, Belgium carpenter E Lefeve Fisher, Bell Sep 1890 Belgium roofer Mahone/Rosti Co Flamez, Leopold 24 Nov 1887 Belgium laborer not employed at present Flamish, Achiel 16 May 1891 Rollgem, Belgium laborer unemployed Fleming, Gustaf 9 May 1889 Diegen, Belgium supplyman Parke Davis Fleming, Hector 29 Sep 1893 Beernem, Belgium machinist Ford Motor Co. Floebeke, Omar 1 Feb 1891 Dendehautem, EF, Belgium laborer Gas Co. Fly, Arthur 26 Oct 1891 Morbeke, Belgium laborer ? Folens, Francis 15 Oct 1886 Gulleghem, Belgium farm laborer Ohio Sugar Co Fotte, Emil 26 Nov 1887 Antwerp, Belgium asst. foreman Swift Cigar Co Foubert, Bene 7 Jan 1890 Belgium cigar maker Swift Cigar Co Frueyman, August 12 Apr 1890 Swevezeele, Belgium driver Parke Davis Co Gabriels, Alfons C 8 Dec 1890 West Cappelle, Belgium streetcar motorman Detroit United RY Co. Gabriels, Chris 21 Feb 1889 West Cappelle,Belgium machinist Fisher Body Co Gabriels, Henry 10 Feb 1887 West Cappelle, Belgium carpenter J Pierre Galle, Alfonce 31 May 1887 Meulebeke, Belgium blacksmith unemployed Gat, Gentiel 18 Mar 1889 Valodslo, Belgium farm labor not employed Gelenem, Prosper 19 Feb 1892 ????eld, Belgium laborer ? George Lefevre 18 Mar 1893 Meuleseele, Belgium solderer Continental Motor Co. Germonpre, August 2 Jun 1887 Austern, WF, Belgium painter Fisher Body Co. Gerwig, Arthur 10 Mar 1888 Zarred, Belgium ? unemployed Ghekiere, Frank 30 Oct 1893 Iseghem, Belgium motorman Detroit United RY Co. Gheldof, Emil 22 Feb 1894 West Oostbeke,Belgium laborer Ford Motor Car Co Ghesquiere, David 24 Mar 1890 Klerken, Belgium contractor self Ghesquiere, Louis 5 Sep 1894 Klerken, Belgium excavator self Gilbert, Albert 3 Oct 1894 ?usselghem, Belgium laborer T Currie Construction Co Gilbert, George J 28 May 1890 Ousselghem, Belgium laborer Continental Sugar Co 109

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Name Birth Date Birthplace Occupation Employer Gilbert, Philemon Joseph 26 Aug 1892 Ousselghem, EF, Belgium motorman Detroit United RY Co. Gille, Frank 10 Dec 1887 Gille, Belgium laborer City of Detroit Goedertier, Ernest 9 Aug 1886 Lemberge, Belgium carpenter G Grates Goemaere, Emiel 22 Feb 1897 Roulers, Belgium ? O'Brien Goenen, George Robert 8 Nov 1888 Roulers, Belgium bicycle repair self Goethals, Gustaf 7 Aug 1892 Wyngene, Belgim laborer smelter Goethals, Gustav 7 aug 1892 Winkene, Belgium laborer smeltery Goethals, Julies 20 Apr 1887 Sweeverzeele, Belgium pasteurizer Belle Isle Creamery Co. Goethals, Leon 10 Jul 1892 Bellem, Belgium machinist Continental Sugar Co. Goossens, Frank M 10 Aug 1891 Dendenhautem, Belgium farm laborer Mich. Sugar Beet Co. Gotts, Emerik 23 Oct 1888 Onernelles, Belgium out of work Gouwy, Joseph 4 Sep 1889 Staden, Belgium moulder Enterprise Foundry Co Greff, Chas 7 Mar 1889 Liege, Belgium electrician Packard Motor Car Co Grip, Louis 25 Jan 1887 Eekloo, Belgium laborer foundry Grymonprez, Camiel 19 Nov 1886 Emelhiem, WF, Belgium laborer self Grymonprez, Charles Feb 1894 West Flanders, Belgium miner unemployed Gryseels, Kamel 12 Sep 1888 Nenovel, Belgium helper Parke Davis Gryzeel, Henry 4 jan 1894 Thourout, Belgium laborer ? Gryzeel,Frank 7 Jun 1889 Olber, Belgium laborer Parke Davis Gunst, Richard 16 Apr 1892 Ostend, Belgium mason self Gurdebeke, Alphons 15 Aug 1886 Swenger, Belgium blacksmith Anderson Forge Co Gurdebeke, Camiel 15 Oct 1887 Wyngene, Belgium bartender P DeRonne Haentgens, Peter 14 Apr 1888 Antwerp, Belgium carpenter A Sisman Haesaert, Henry 4 Jan 1894 Thourout, Belgium laborer unemployed Haesaert, Leon 2 Dec 1888 Belgium laborer ? Haezebronck, Emrick J 23 Nov 1894 Lichtervelde, Belgium salesman Grd Union Tea/Coffee Co Helaers, Frank 6 Jul 1897 Brussels, Belgium ? Continental Mtr. Car Co Hemberg, Hubert Julion 15 Jan 1892 Belgium ? Ed ? Hendryckx, Leonard 4 Aug 1893 Eesen, Belgium laborer P Dummo Herman, Arthur 6 Jul 1890 Kortryk, Belgium farmer A Elslzy Herman, Constant 9 Jun 1892 Everne, Belgium ? A Lapeer Herman, Joseph 26 Sep 1892 Everne, Belgium mason A Lapeer Herregodts, Odil 29 May 1892 West Flanders, Belgium carpenter self Hersman, Adolph 18 Mar 1894 Kortryk, Belgium mason F Vanghahem Heyman, Camille 24 Sep 1886 Belgium carpenter Paul Hemensa Heyman, Felix 2 Feb 1889 East Flanders, Belgium ? Young Brothers Hieber, Walther F 7 Apr 1890 Brussels, Belgium counterman ? Hoebeke, Beni 13 Apr 1889 Denderhautem, Belgium laborer Saxon Motor Hoebeke, Constant 20 Jun 1888 Denderhautem, Belgium laborer Detroit Furnace Co. Hofkens, Frank 3 Sep 1887 Antwerp, Belgium laborer Bridge Manufacturing Holsbeck, Rene 28 Mar 1894 East Flanders, Belgium painter B Holebeke Holsbeke, Hector 11 Mar 1888 Dynze, Belgium mason Remi Standart Holvoet, Gustaf 15 Apr 1890 St Catherine, Belgium auto tester Hupp Motor Car Co. Hoornaert, Julian 1 Nov 1888 Roulers, Belgium laborer Gabriel Reinforcement Co Horrie, Arthur 4 Nov 1890 Roulers, Belgium laborer Michigan ? Horrie, Maurice 26 Jun 1896 Roulers, Belgium ? Parke Davis Co Hostan, Joseph Felix 6 Mar 1890 West Flanders;Belgium contractor self Houtekeete, Alfred 10 Jun 1889 Aalter, Belgium teamster Adell Danniels Houttekier, Henri Joseph 2 May 1890 Rudevoorde, Belgium laborer MC RR Hugelier, Camiel 26 May 1891 Belgium laborer unemployed Hugelier, Henry 10 Jun 1888 Kortryk, Belgium laborer ? Hugo, Eugene 24 Jan 1892 Arlon, Belgium cook ? 110

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Illness an enemy for Civil War soldiers

By Norma Meier [This story, by Norma Meier, originally appeared in her column Once Upon A Time. . .in the 14 April 1988 issue of The Advocate, Clifton, Illinois.]

Once Upon A Time … on a Civil War battlefield near Louisville, Kentucky, young Jean Louis FRONVILLE struggled with symptoms of his war's most devastating disease: dysentery. It was hardly something to write home about. Yet, its course through a soldier's body was often enough as painful as a minie ball7 and quite as deadly.

Jean Louis had seen but 21 years since his birth in the village of Boneffe, Belgium. Six of those years were lived in the Belgian community east of Clifton. He learned no English, did not speak it, did not understand it. His lack of English called for the shot that killed him; dysentery set him up for the bullet.

Dysentery and diarrhea which was the worst: cause, disease or treatment? "Mere exhaustion, from fatigue, over exertion and loss of sleep as during long marches, sieges. Battles of several days duration, produces a condition favorable to the inroads of several diseases, among which diarrhoea and dysentery are conspicuous." reported physicians and surgeons of the Civil War who wrote in 1879 the volume Medical Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Mix in contaminated water, primitive field hygiene and poor food and you have a potent breeding ground for the organism of dysentery.

A soldier's food staple was hardtack, a 3:3 cracker called a "worm castle." Medicines for treatment of castle." Medicines for treatment of dysentery and diarrhea were hardly more appetizing. Among standard treatments were cod-liver oil mixed with whiskey, turpentine, nitrate of silver, cooked peanuts, Dover's powder, sulfate of zing with opium. Dosage recommended for opium was one to three grains every two to three hours. Sometimes drug addiction followed often enough to make post-war newspaper ads for addiction cures a common occurrence.

It was at Camp Douglas, in Illinois, where Pvt. Fronville contracted the disease leading to the Civil War saying: "the soldiers did more scootin' than shootin'."

He was mustered in August 25, 1862 in Company D of the 89th Illinois Infantry. His bounty money was turned over to his father, Joseph. Joseph Fronville sorely needed that bounty; with it he bought a yoke of oxen and a cow but that's another part of our story and we'll come back to it later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack#/media/Fi le:PensacolaWentworthAug2008Hardtack.jpg Pvt. Fronville saw little training. By mid-September he was taking part in the confrontation south of Louisville which ended Confederate attempts to gain Kentucky. The young private was still plagued by diarrhea. What happened to him on September 18 is difficult to write. We'll let Capt. George Robinson tell it: "Louis Fronville was suffering from diarrhea or dysentery and obeying the wants of nature was going towards the common privy for soldiers a small distance outside the lines when in going there. The intensity of his disease forced him to stop and he stooped. He was noticed by the guard who tried to make him get up. The man Fronville could not understand the English language or could not get up and the guard shot him from which shot he died in the Louisville hospital; that said, Louis Fronville was a very brave and honorable fellow who always behaved himself as a true soldier in the Service of the United States." Octave Durand, harness maker at Martinton, and a fellow private, substantiates the story in testimony included in Fronville's military file at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.: “Fronville being unable to get up and not understanding the English language was shot by the guard through the wrist and hip; was carried to Hospital at Louisville Ky and subsequently died of said wounds.”

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And now the story goes both backward and forward. A story told through fading papers in Civil War pension file No. 183731. A story that teases our imagination with thoughts of emigration, of pioneer years on the Illinois prairie, of the cruel depression following the war. A story preserved because of Pension No. 183731 and Fronville's military file.

Joseph Fronville was dependent upon the earnings of his son, Jean Louis Fronville. For this reason he applied for and won a pension based on the military service of his son. It took numerous pages of testimony

before Pension Certificate No. 192074 was awarded. One of those Louis Fronville pension card pages contains testimony of Francois Joseph Ducat of Clifton. "emigrated together with the claimant (Joseph Fronville) and his family from Belgium to the United States in 1856; that they settled all together around Clifton, Illinois; that the wife of the claimant died the subsequent year and that claimant contracted in 1858 and 1859 such Sickness as rendered him afterward unfit to do any heavy work and consequently dependent upon others and specially on the labor of his Son Louis who died single at the war of the Rebellion and who helped his father at least $15.00 per month until he enlisted; that the death of Louis reduced the claimant to poverty or nearly as the amount of his entire resources per month in 1862 outside of the labor of Louis was not over $8 per month ...."

Eugene Dacosse of Clifton added his testimony. "I was well acquainted with Louis Fronville Deceased, have been acquainted with his father Joseph Fronville for 23 years and resided in the same Township with him all that time Joseph Fronville who was more or less unable to earn his livelihood since I Know him was in 1862 entirely dependent upon the earnings of his son Louis. I know it to be a fact from my visiting the family often and seeing the son Louis bringing back to his father money or orders on the store in the average twenty Dollars per month.-"

The Government required further proof of Joseph's illness and inability to earn a living. It came from H. P. Gauthier, a physician who practiced in the L'Erable area as early as 1857. "I have attended many times Joseph Fronville professionally from 1858 to about 1862, for various diseases such as intermittent, remittent, bilious fever. Fronville prior to 1862 lived in a place most exposed to Malaria, at the immediate junction of a river and a creek of stagnant water both overrun with weeds." (Thus, our gentle Langham Creek, flowing east of Clifton to the Iroquois, hosted malaria laden mosquitos which plagued the pioneers.) "Escaping from such a place of residence, with a debilitated or more properly a broken down constitution is a lucky event for a man comparatively old and very poor." continued Dr. Gauthier.

In October of 1870, Joseph Fronville appeared before a notary to testify: "he is the identical Joseph Fronville who is the father of Lewis Fronville who was a Private in Co. D in the 89th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers in the war of 1861 and that he has resided in said town (township) of Chebanse since the year 1856. His wife who was the Mother of said Soldier having died on the 18th day of September 1857 and that he has never been the owner of any property Real or personal since he has resided in the State of Illinois with the exception of his wearing apparel and the further exception of one yoke of Oxen and one Cow, which were purchased with the bounty money which he obtained from the United State by reason of the Services of the said Soldier and that said Oxen and Cow were sold and the proceeds expended for support of said Claimant and that the value of said Oxen and Cow was about $83.00 and that since the Soldier’s death the Father has supported himself by working by the day or month for other parties. And the age of said Joseph Fronville is now sixty four years - And that his health has been poor the most part of the time since he resided in this Country by reason of fever and Ague that his occupation has been working on farms which were owned by his neighbors - and that his earnings formally amounted to about one dollar per day in the best part of the year but of late years he has become so broken down that he can obtain only about his board for his work that he has been employed part of the time by a man by the name of Clement and a part of the time by Francis Thomas and that the name of his Physician who has generally attended him is Louis Henrotin of Clifton that the names of his other children are Floran Fronville and a married daughter by the name of Catharine Robins both son and daughter reside in Chebanse, Ills that said Soldier assisted his Father from the time of being able to work to the time of his death."

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Fellow countrymen Eugene Dacosse and J. Norbert Frooninckx supported Fronville's claim when they testified, "their acquaintance with the said Joseph Fronville dates back to the year 1856 that the whole property owned by the said Joseph Fronville and the said Louis Fronville was composed only of one Yoke of oxen that the support given to his father by the said Louis Fronville consisted of what he could earn by hiring himself to the farmers in this Section of the country or by breaking prairie with the help of the oxen referred to. that ever since the year 1862, the labor that the said Joseph Fronville has been able to perform did not amount to ten per cent of the amount required for his subsistence and that from the year 1871 his income has been reduced to nothing whatever on account of an accident with which he met. to wit: Breaking his leg near the hip, of which accident he is still suffering the painful consequences, that the said witnesses Eugene Dacosse and J. Norbert Fronincks have been and are now living in the immediate neighborhood of the said Joseph Fronville ...."

Collaborating in testimony were Dr. Nicholas R. Marshall, Henry Kinson, Eugene Petit, and John Debreau. Then testimony takes another step backward into time and into Belgium for proof of Joseph Fronville's marriage for proof of Pvt. Fronville's birth. The extract from civil registers of Jandrain-Jandrenouille, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Province of Brabant, Belgium, records (in French) the December 30, 1829 marriage of Antoine Joseph Fronville to Marie Catherine Thiry. He was born at Boneffe to Antoine Joseph Fronville and Marie Anne Radelet and was a resident of Taviers at the time of his marriage. His bride was born at Jandrenouille to Jean Joseph Thiry and Marie Catherine Jenne Homme.

The resident priest of Boneffe forwards to Louis Henrotin at Clifton records showing Joseph Fronville was born August 22. 1807 at Boneffe and that he and his wife were the parents of Mary Francese born September 19. 1835; Mary Albertine, twenty four years of age, married to Eugene Collart; Florent Joseph born April 12, 1838; John Louis born December 18, 1840; Mary Terese (Mrs. Eugene Robin) born August 11, 1844. The paper work was completed. The pension granted $8 a month.

I stacked the papers back into the manila folder marked No. 183731. And I mourned for the young soldier as though it happened yesterday. And I thought of his father plowing the prairie near Langham Creek. They laid the father beneath frosted sod in L'Erable on Leap Year day in 1884. Where does Pvt. Fronville lie?

L.T. Fronville tombstone Photo Rob M. for Find a Grave Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (photo C. Bedford Crenshaw)

Antoine Joseph FRONVILLE was born 22 Aug 1807 in Boneffe, Province Namur, Belgium, and died 29 February 1884 in L'Erable, Iroquois County, Illinois. He married Marie Catherine THIRY 30 December 1829 in Jandrain, Brabant

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Province, Belgium, daughter of Jean THIRY and Marie JEUNEHOMME. She was born 16 November 1804 in Jandrenouille, Namur Province, Belgium, and died 7 September 1857 in Iroquois County, Illinois.

***Ship Passenger Lists, Ship Matilda, Capt. R. Lee, arrival in New York 15 May 1856 (on same ship were families of Dacosse, Robin, Fronville, Collard, Looze, Genotte and Hougardy): Joseph Fronville, 48, Belgium, destination Chicago Maria Fronville, 51, Belgium, destination Chicago Albertine Fronville, 23, Belgium, destination Chicago Florent Fronville, 18, Belgium, destination Chicago Jean Louis Fronville, 15, Belgium, destination Chicago Maria Fronville, 11, Belgium, destination Chicago Albertine Collard, 26, Belgium, destination Chicago [same person as Albertine Fronville] Eugenie Collard, 9 months, Belgium, destination Chicago

***Jandrain and Jandrenouille are small adjoining villages, dating back to 855, in the province now called Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Civil Registrations, Netradyle-Geneadyle website gives the 20 December 1829 marriage of "Antoine Joseph Fronville and Marie Catherine Thiry in Jandrain-Jandrenouille commune [parish].” Same source gives vital records of their children Marie Francoise, Florent Joseph, Jean Louis Joseph and Marie Therese. Same source gives birth record of Marie Catherine Thiry. The family left Boneffe, Province Namur, Belgium on 3 April 1856; they came to Iroquois County, Illinois. Son Jean Louis died in the Civil War, his military file is #183,731, #192,074 in the National Archives, Washington DC. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, L'Erable, Illinois, Record Book Two, by Norma Meier gives the 1 March 1884 burial record of Joseph "who died 29 February at the age of 76 years."

Children of Antoine FRONVILLE and Marie THIRY are: i. Mary Albertine FRONVILLE, b. 20 Nov 1833, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; d. 21 Dec 1911, Chebanse, Illinois. ii. Marie Francoise FRONVILLE, b. 19 Sep 1835, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; d. 22 Jan 1839, Boneffe, Province Namur, Belgium. iii. Florent Joseph FRONVILLE, b. 13 Apr 1838, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; d. 3 Mar 1916, Clifton, Iroquois County, Illinois. iv. Jean Louis Joseph FRONVILLE, b. 19 Dec 1840, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; died during service in Civil War, 14 Nov 1862, Louisville, Kentucky. v. Marie Therese FRONVILLE, b. 12 Aug 1844, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; d. 8 Nov 1920, Clifton, Iroquois County, Illinois. vi. Marie Louise FRONVILLE, b. 5 Sep 1847, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium; d. 1 Jun 1848, Boneffe, Namur Province, Belgium.

Display, at the French Heritage Museum in Kankakee, Illinois, (http://www.kankakeecountymuseum.com/french- heritage-museum-.html) of a large Belgian map and photographs of emigrant Belgians with threads leading to their native villages in Belgium. Majority came from areas just south, southeast of Brussels – exceptions were Cnudde family who came from Flanders and Cailteux family who lived just a few feet from border with France. Norma Meier is at the Museum on Saturdays and Sundays where she helps people with their genealogy.

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Belgians on the 1910 Census: Indiana By Régine Brindle Greene County Name relationship Sex/Age/Status Nativity Citizenship Occupation Linton Ward 3 352/1030 Joseph Lumbricks Head M/41 M1-9 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1888-Na miner coal mine 352/1030 Katy Lumbricks wife F/25 M1-9 2/2 Scotland Scotland Scotland 1885 none 352/1030 Joseph Lumbricks Son M/8 S Indiana Belgium Scotland none 352/1030 Mary Lumbricks Daughter F/4 S Indiana Belgium Scotland none

Wright 352/1166 Jules Surmont Head M/44 M1-22 France France France 1885-Na Mine - coal mine 352/1166 Josephine Surmont Wife F/39 M1-22 9/7 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1886 none 352/1166 Josephine Surmont Daughter F/17 S Indiana France Belgium none 352/1166 Laona Surmont Daughter F/16 S Indiana France Belgium none 352/1166 Henriette Surmont Daughter F/14 S Colorado France Belgium none 352/1166 Joseph Surmont Son M/9 S Utah France Belgium none 352/1167 Louise Surmont Daughter F/7 S Utah France Belgium none 352/1167 George Surmont Son M/4 S Indiana France Belgium none

352/1168 Joseph Saladin Head M/56 Wd Belgium Belgium France 1888-Na loader coal mine 352/1168 Juste Saladin Son M/24 S France Belgium France 1888 loader coal mine 352/1168 Eugene Saladin Daughter F/17 S Alabama Belgium France none 352/1168 Louisesan Saladin Daughter F/15 S Alabama Belgium France none

352/1169 Julius Gilboux Head M/42 M1-13 Belgium France France 1885-Pa machine adjuster coal mine 352/1169 Josephine Gilboux wife F/42 M2-13 5/4 France France France 1892 none 352/1169 Constan Gilboux Son M/12 S Pennsylvania Belgium France none 352/1169 Alice Gilboux Daughter F/8 S Indiana Belgium France none

Fountain County Name relationship Sex/Age/Status Nativity Citizenship Occupation Attica Ward 2 169/177 Henry Lack Head M/41 M-17 Indiana Germany Germany none 169/177 Aurela H Lack Wife F/40 M-17 0/0 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1890 none

211/220 Peat Overbegge Lodger M/36 S Belgium Belgium Belgium 1900-Na foreman

211/220 Ferdinand Ole* Head M/55 M-21 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1888-Na molder 211/220 Prudence Ole* Wife F/48 M-21 6/5 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1888 none 211/220 Edmond Ole* son M/20 S Holland Belgium Belgium 1888-Na foreman 211/220 Louis Ole* Daughter F/19 S Holland Belgium Belgium 1888 none 211/220 Hary Ole* Son M/12 S Indiana Belgium Belgium none 211/220 Margret Ole* Daughter F/8 S Indiana Belgium Belgium none 211/220 Frank Ole* Son M/7 S Indiana Belgium Belgium none

Davis 120/122 Jacob Vanlaere Head M/61 M1-34 Holland Belgium Belgium 1907-Al farm 120/122 Prudence Vanlaere wife F/32 M1-34 14/11 Holland Holland Holland none 120/122 Amiel Vanlaere son M/30 S Holland Holland Holland 1904-papers farm 120/122 Alfonso Vanlaere son M/19 S Holland Holland Holland farm 120/122 Piett Vanlaere son M/18 S Holland Holland Holland farm 120/122 Elizabeth Vanlaere daughter F/16 S Holland Holland Holland none 120/122 Augustus Vanlaere son M/13 S Holland Holland Holland none 120/122 Emma Vanlaere daughter F/12 S Holland Holland Holland none

Logan 3/3 Edward Mormont head M/55 M1-26 Holland Holland Holland 1883-Na farmer 3/3 Emma Mormont Wife F/49 M1-26 7/7 Holland Belgium Holland 1883 none 3/3 Minnie Mormont daughter F/23 S Indiana Holland Holland none 3/3 Charles Mormont son M/21 S Indiana Holland Holland farmer 115

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3/3 John Mormont son M/19 S Indiana Holland Holland farmer 3/3 Frank Mormont son M/17 S Indiana Holland Holland farmer 3/3 August Mormont son M/14 S Indiana Holland Holland none 3/3 Bernard Mormont son M/10 S Indiana Holland Holland none

15/16 Jacob Mattys head M/33 M1-6 Holland Holland Holland 1899-Na farmer 15/16 Emma Mattys Wife F/27 M1-6 2/2 Belgium Belgium Holland 1899 none 15/16 Henry Mattys Son M/5 S Indiana Belgium Belgium none 15/16 John Mattys Son M/2 S Indiana Belgium Belgium none

Floyd County Name relationship Sex/Age/Status Nativity Citizenship Occupation New Albany Ward 1 226/236 John W Shrader head M/46 M1-23 Indiana Germany Germany carpenter 226/236 Clara Shrader Wife F/45 M1-23 5/5 Indiana Belgium Indiana none 226/236 Oneta Shrader daughter F/20 S Indiana Indiana Indiana bookkeeper @ Newspaper 226/236 Mary Shrader daughter F/18 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 226/236 Adrian Shrader son M/16 S Indiana Indiana Indiana collector newspaper 226/236 Florence I Shrader daughter F/13 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none

New Albany Ward 2 130/139 Philip A Dowd Head M/43 M1-20 Indiana Ireland Ireland salesman grape juice 130/139 Minnie Dowd Wife F/42 M1-20 5/5 Kentucky Belgium Indiana none 130/139 Rose M Dowd daughter F/19 S Kentucky Indiana Kentucky stenographer Brokers 130/139 Virginia E Dowd daughter F/18 S Indiana Indiana Kentucky none 130/139 George L Dowd son M/16 S Indiana Indiana Kentucky none 130/139 Francis B Dowd son M/13 S Indiana Indiana Kentucky none 130/139 Anastasia Dowd daughter F/8 S Ohio Indiana Kentucky none

New Albany Ward 4 16/38 Amadee L Sourdry Head M/50 M1-24 Indiana France Belgium retail merchant - shoes 16/38 Augustine V Sourdry Wife F/48 M1-24 3/2 Indiana France Belgium none 16/38 Mamie Sourdry daughter F/22 S Indiana Indiana Indiana saleslady - shoes store 16/38 Victor J Sourdry son M/18 S Indiana Indiana Indiana stenographer - car works

77/90 John R Day Head M/57 M1-19 Indiana Austria Belgium prop at groceries 77/90 Helen E Day wife F/50 M1-19 1/1 Indiana Massachusetts Unknown none 77/90 Joseph J Day son M/14 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none

87/100 Theodore C Day Head M/54 M1-20 Indiana Germany Belgium manager in tannery 87/100 Emelia Day wife F/49 M1-20 1/1 New York Switzerland New York none 87/100 Theodor W Day son M/26 S Indiana Indiana New York student at Dental codex

163/180 Josephine M Day Head F/88 Wd 11/10 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1828 own income 163/2180 Enoch A Day Son S/48 S Indiana Belgium Belgium harness maker- harness shop

246/264 Walter Whiteman Head M/51 M2-6 Indiana unknown Indiana stable man @ US gov 246/264 Rosa L Whiteman Wife F/52 M1-6 0/0 Kentucky Belgium Indiana none 246/264 Clarence Whiteman son M/19 S Indiana Indiana Indiana carpenter - house 246/264 Raymond Whiteman son M/16 S Indiana Indiana Indiana laborer-farm 246/264 Marshall F Whiteman brother M/53 S Indiana USA Indiana laborer-street

247/265 Jacob Erb head M/47 M1-22 Indiana Pennsylvania USA laborer- street 247/265 Elizabeth Erb Wife F/50 M1-22 5/1 Kentucky Belgium Indiana none 247/265 John P Erb son M/13 S Indiana Indiana Kentucky none

New Albany Ward 5 214/247 John Walters head M/43 M1-9 Indiana Germany Germany farer 214/247 Florence I Walters Wife F/42 M1-9 4/4 Indiana Belgium France none 214/247 Catherine Walters daughter F/8 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 214/247 John Jr Walters son M/6 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 116

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214/247 Albert Walters son M/5 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 214/247 Charles Walters son M/1Y6M S Indiana Indiana Indiana none

217/250 Albert Jolissaint Head M/40 M1-6 Indiana Germany Belgium foreman @ RR depot 217/250 Rosa Jolissaint Wife F/39 M1-6 0/0 Indiana Belgium France none 217/250 Florence Moresty mother-in-law M/76 Wd 8/5 France France France own income

New Albany Ward 7 158/162 Amedee Sourdry head M/82 M1-57 France France France 1839-Na own income 158/162 Victoria Sourdry Wife F/79 M1-57 3/2 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1833 none 158/162 John B James son-in-law M/67 M2-1 Indiana France Belgium 1844-Na lawyer 158/162 Mary V James Daughter F/56 M1-1 0/0 Indiana France Belgium none 158/162 Julia C James niece F/33 Indiana France Indiana none

46/46 Robert Jacques Head M/48 M1-22 Indiana Belgium Indiana grocer 46/46 Laura U Jacques wife F/48 M1-22 2/2 Germany Germany Germany 1868 none 46/46 Jessie Jacques son M/20 S Indiana Indiana Germany clerk @ grocery 46/46 Nellie Jacques daughter F/17 S Indiana Indiana Germany none

126/127 Elizabeth Ancelet Head F/66 Wd 5/4 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1853 none 126/127 Della Kirk Daughter F/44 Wd 1/1 Indiana France Belgium none 126/127 Alfred Ancelet Son M/27 S Indiana France Belgium ? 126/127 Alfred Edwards grandson M/18 S Indiana Indiana Indiana ?

252/260 Josephine Jollissaint Head F/64 Wd 10/6 Indiana Belgium Belgium none

Lafayette 28/30 John J Bezy Head M/69 M1-50 Indiana Belgium Belgium farmer 28/30 Mary I Bezy wife F/67 M1-50 France France France 1850 none 28/30 Julius Bezy son M/43 S Indiana Indiana France farmer

33/37 Frank Scharf head M/44 M1-17 Indiana Germany Germany farmer 33/37 Delphia Scharf Wife F/41 M1-17 4/4 Indiana Belgium Belgium none 33/37 Lewis Scharf son M/16 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 33/37 Adolphe Scharf son M/13 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 33/37 Mary Scharf daughter F/10 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 33/37 Charles Scharf son M/4 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 33/37 Delphine Bezy Mother-in-Law F/66 Wd Belgium Belgium Belgium none

New Albany township 7/8 George Barker Head M/58 M1-30 Ohio Germany Germany laborer 7/8 Mary Barker Wife F/55 M1-30 10/8 Indiana Belgium Belgium none 7/8 Alexander Barker son M/24 S Indiana Ohio Indiana none 7/8 George J Barker son M/22 S Indiana Ohio Indiana camp trainer @electrified company 7/8 Stella Barker daughter F/10 S Indiana Ohio Indiana none 7/8 Gordon P Barker grandson M/11 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none

23/24 Lawrence Thevenot head M/71 M1-42 France France France 1854-Na farmer 23/24 Josaphine Thevenot wife F/71 M1-42 1/1 Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland 1854 none 23/24 Harry Thevenot son M/41 M1-1 Indiana France Switzerland steward @ hotel 23/24 Mary F Thevenot Daughter-in-Law F/41 M1-1 0/0 Indiana Belgium France none

27/29 Paul C Bullit Head M/55 M1-33 Indiana France Belgium commercial traveler – fertilizers 27/29 Sarah J Bullit wife F/52 M1-33 6/6 Indiana Kentucky Indiana none 27/29 Harriet C Bullit daughter F/30 S Indiana Indiana Indiana teacher at city school 27/29 Lorrien L Bullit son M/21 S Indiana Indiana Indiana student at medical college 27/29 Eugene B Bullit son M/19 S Indiana Indiana Indiana student at law school

114/118 John B Risport Head M/52 Wd Indiana Belgium Belgium sexton @ Holy Trinity cemetery 114/118 Francis J Risport son M/20 S Indiana Indiana Indiana stenographer @ railroad 114/118 Mary I Risport daughter F/16 S Indiana Indiana Indiana none 114/118 John I Risport son M/18 S Indiana Indiana Indiana stenographer @ railroad 117

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French Settlements in Floyd County By ALICE L. GREEN, New Albany, Indiana https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/5917/5554

ST. MARY'S–OF–THE–KNOBS

Of the several buffalo trails crossing the State of Indiana the best developed and most popular led from the salt–licks of Central Kentucky, fording the Ohio River at the Falls, thence over the Floyd county hills, northwest across Southern Indiana to Vincennes and onward to the prairies of Illinois. Over this trail, in many places wide enough for a wagon road, it is said, came the Indians the fur traders, the hunters and trappers, the missionaries and lastly the pioneers.

New Albany, laid out in 1813 just below the Ohio Falls, was a low– lying, very unhealthful village. Malaria, chills, and fevers were the common lot of all. There was a heavy growth of timber along the weeks running through the level stretch upon which the village was located. Much of the land was so low that it was subject to annual overflow. This half–marsh, covered with fallen and decayed timber, caused much sickness among the early settlers. So, it was no uncommon thing for the "older settlers" to advise the "newcomers" to move back among the hills surrounding this valley near the river, where they would be out of the reach of floods and impending sickness.

Soon after the war of 1812, emigrants came, in ever increasing numbers, to the Ohio Falls country. Among these were several French families from Lorraine who floated down the Ohio River; and upon landing at New Albany, and being informed of its unhealthful condition, turned to the hills northwest of the village. These hills were covered with the forest primeval, and the only means of climbing them, doubtless, was by following the old Buffalo trail, long before abandoned by its makers. This probably led the French emigrants north of the present Paoli pike, for they settled on Little Indian creek, some two or three miles north of the present village of Mooresville (Floyd Knob P. O.), and about six miles from New Albany. The exact location http://indyhist.iupui.edu/items/show/153 of the old trail is not known. It may have been nearer the line of the Paoli pike, from which it was easy for the settlers to follow the course of the creek. Here they laid the nucleus for the flourishing community known today as St. Mary's–of–the–Knobs.

Among these earliest settlers (they were proud to be settlers, and not squatters) was one Thomas Piers—often called Pierce— an Irishman, who came in 1816. He was a man of considerable influence, a surveyor as well as a farmer. On his farm the first Catholic Church was organized by Father Abel of Bardstown, Kentucky. A log church was built in 1824. This church was replaced by a brick building in 1836, and located about a mile north of the first structure. However, the graveyard around the first church continued to be held sacred for many years, and has only recently become a part of the cultivated fields. In 1824 there was no Catholic church in New Albany, and the small congregation out on the Piers farm was recognized as a mission of Bardstown, the priests coming from that town to conduct services for the settlers. At that time the bishop lived at Vincennes. Constant communication was kept up between the churches at Bardstown and Vincennes along the old Buffalo trail. As the priests traveled through the state they made it a point to visit all Catholic families and settlements. Thus the little church on the Floyd county hills had many passing visitors from its earliest days.

Many Frenchmen and a few Irish, led by the ties of kindred, language, and religion, followed the first hardy pioneers. Among these were the names: Vernia (then spelled Vernier), Albert, Banet, Spikert, Jacquot, Pierette, Brevet, Peay, Perrine, Quencez, Beau–cond, Richards, Pierson, Bedan (spelled Bedaine), Didat, Journey, Martin, James (Jarques), Wey, Receveur, Choulet, Christian, Mar–guet, Tripure and many others.

The best known of the Irish settlers in the neighborhood were the Byrn, Duffy and Coleman families. John Coleman was one of the best educated men in the colony, and became the first schoolmaster. He was also a justice of the peace, and tried the few cases.

These early settlers were frugal and industrious. They brought with them their occupations of the "old country," and lived the simple peasant life of the fatherland. The older people, even within the memories of those now living, wore wooden shoes (sabots), and burned

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Another paying industry of the early French settlement was the stone quarry which gave occupation to a goodly number of men. These men had to be strong, robust, and fearless, for the work was considered quite dangerous. But the boy who secured the job of carrying drinking water from a near–by well or spring to the "quarrymen," as they were called, thought he had an easy task indeed, and there was great competition for the same, as the occupation gave much time for rest and reflection. Logs were in plenty from which he could shy stones at passing birds, and gaze at the beautiful scenery, a panorama of hills, valleys, and distant towns spread out before him; and no doubt he took advantage of the situation. The limestone rocks, after being blasted from the hillsides, were drilled by hand into huge blocks, and hauled in strong wagons, called "rock wagons" to Louisville, where they assisted largely in building that beautiful city.

These occupations of farming, cooperage and quarrying created a social caste system among the early settlers, the two former being considered much more genteel than the last named. This community, known as "St. Mary's," early became one of the most flourishing in the county and remains so to the present day. Many descendants of those pioneers are still living in the county and State, and they are everywhere honored and respected citizens. And the church so early founded at St. Mary's was like the community a strong and influential society. It grew with the growth of the settlement, and strengthened with its strength, until it is now one of the largest of the State outside the cities.

The church at St. Mary's had no resident priest until 1835, when Father Neyron came to them. This Rev. Father deserves more than passing mention. He was a soldier of Napoleon's army, also a surgeon of remarkable ability. Coming to this country early in the nineteenth century, he became a priest, and his name is closely linked with the early history of New Albany, to which place he came when the first Catholic Church was organized. He was a public spirited citizen as well as a religious worker, and he was ever ready with his surgeon's skill to help those in need. He worked hand in hand with his followers, teaching them many useful things. He built churches with his own means, and "healed the sick without money or price." An elderly merchant in New Albany relates that as a mere boy he used to accompany Father Neyron from the village church—after early mass—across the fields and up the hills to St. Mary's where the Rev. Father would hold services at 10 a. m., returning to New Albany immediately afterward, always afoot. So it is easily seen why the name of Father Neyron is held in blessed memory by those old settler folk.

"FRENCH CREEK" SETTLEMENT

Southwest of New Albany lies a mass of hills, picturesque, rugged and barren in many places. There is but little level land, and the country is wild and rough in general. The main road through this part of the county, winding, curving and doubling on itself among these beautiful hills, is called the Budd road in honor of Col. Gilbert Budd, an influential English pioneer, who settled early in that community. A French colony, led by a missionary priest, whose name has long since passed into oblivion, settled among these hills about 1830 or thereabouts. They may have been led in that direction in search of higher, healthier ground, as in the case of the first settlement, or the hills may have reminded them of their far–away homes. At any rate they called their settlement "Porrentruy" from the name of the native canton of many of them. On the books of "La Societe Francaise" of New Albany, incorporated by act of Assembly in 1855, the division known as "Porrentruy" is formally entered. Quite a number of these settlers were "Belgian" French, and a few Swiss were mixed with them. Among these hills they planted vineyards, vegetable gardens, and orchards. The people were honest and industrious and for years the colony prospered. In all about forty families settled within a radius of a few miles up and down French creek, a creek that rushes and tumbles down the hills to the Ohio, and marked the heart of the settlement, its main thoroughfare as it were.

Being much nearer the town than the settlement at St. Mary's, the people attended church at New Albany. It is said that Father Neyron persuaded them to come to him rather than build a church of their own. Once each month the good Father was accustomed to go down among these parishioners, and hold vesper services for them. A resident of New Albany, who lived in this settlement when a boy, relates that on Sunday the older people would drive the mile or two to New Albany to church, while the young people preferred to walk, every laddie with his lassie, and to make the trip as long as possible. It is said that when the community was at its prime, about 1850–60, there were at least a hundred young people in the neighborhood who enjoyed many good times together.

Among the names prominent in the community were Verone, Hubler, Bee, Pierard, Hubbard, Volzer, Marque, Prenat, Boll, Be–zot, Gony, Jordan, Bruet, Mousty, Goniat, Graniger, Bezy, Echo–bert and Beuchat. Several of the oldest settlers had been soldiers of Napoleon, and never tired of telling stories of their early adventures. 119

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Several causes may have led to the downfall of the colony. The land is steep and sterile, and farming does not prosper. There was no church with a resident priest to hold the people together. Many of the young folks, influenced by the spirit of the times, went to the neighboring towns to work. Many of the best families moved to other parts of the state, several settled at Vincennes. And, again, intermarriage with the incoming Americans resulted in the deterioration of the pure French stock.

During the '80's and '90's, the Budd Road French Settlement became a most notorious place for evil doings. Many murders were committed, and the spirit of feuds was rampant. It was with much difficulty that the county authorities were able to suppress this lawlessness.

However, at present, a generation has grown up that is hardworking and law–abiding. The old "reign of terror" has passed away with the older generation. Likewise most of the old landmarks of the early French settlement have disappeared. Here and there are found the remains of an old vineyard on some steep hillside. In one place an old chimney looms above the neighboring scrub–oaks, a mute witness of the past. On another hillside a pile of stones, mostly covered with vines and lichens, is all that remains of a huge bake oven, the common property of several neighbors. Here and there a disused well, its sweep and bucket long since fallen to decay, marks the spot of an old French home. These, together with a few names such as "French Creek," "French Creek School," are all that remain of the once nourishing and picturesque community.

It seems the irony of fate that these two French settlements— "St. Mary's" and the "Budd Road"—in the same small county, and within a few miles of each other, should have had such different endings, one to have prospered with the years, and the other to have gone to pieces utterly. Be it as it may, they have added much to the interest and romance of the early history of Floyd County. True to their native characteristics, they give a dash, and a bit of color to our early local history that would be entirely lacking without them.

Published by the Indiana University Department of History.

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Pennsylvania and West Virginia Obituaries Extracted from the Newspaper Archive and Google Newspapers

James Albert QUINET, 68, of 808 N Main St, Bentleyville, died at 1am today in Washington Hospital. Born Nov 24, 1903 in Robertsdale, Pa., Ohioan Hurt in Auto Crash; Odd Sequel he was the son of the late Theodore and Hortense DUQUESNE Three young people, all of Akron, O, were injured late this morning when an automobile overturned on the Indiana- QUINET. He was a stone cutter for over 50 years and operated the Clymer road near “The Village”. Quinet Monument Co. in Bentleyville. He was a member of Bellsville F Mrs. Margaret Weinrich was admitted to the Indiana Hospital & AM, No 237, Uniontown Lodge of Perfection, Consistory, Scottish at 10:40am. A hospital report said she had suffered a fracture Rites and Syria Temple, all of Pittsburgh, Sportsmen Association of of the right arm, lacerations of the head and lacerations and Charleroi, Pittsburgh Athletic Association, McKean Commandery N0 80 brush burns of the legs. Her sister, Miss Grace Lewis and J R of Charleroi, Monongahela Royal Arch, chapter 24 of Monongahela, Sturbois, driver of the machine. Were released after dispensary Comas Club, Connellsville chapter and George Washington Beagle Club treatment. Sturbois suffered lacerations of the scalp; Miss of Washington. He also was a member of Charleroi Elks, Bentleyville Lewis, brush burns of both ankles. Volunteer Fire Dept., and the following Caravans: Washington and After receiving dispensary treatment Sturbois and Miss Lewis hurried to the Court House and procured a marriage license Greene counties No2, Uniontown No 9, Monongahela Valley N0 17, from Register and Recorder W R Calhoun. A few minutes later Penn Hills No 20, Steel Valley N0 24, McKeesport No 4. He is survived they were married by Justice of the Peace Jay D Hill. After the by his widow Grayce Hinebaugh Quinet of Bentleyille, two daughters, ceremony, Corporal L R Feloni of the Indiana detachment of Mrs. John (Lillian) Recner of McHenry, Md., Mrs. William (Norma) the State Highway Patrol, who had piloted the young couple to Hesen of Oakland, Md./ one nephew, Theodore Quinet of Mt Clements, the Court House for the license and then to the justice of the Mich. Friends will be received at the Barrett G Greenlee Funeral Home, peace office, arrested Sturbois for reckless driving. Bentleyville, after 7pm today. In lieu of flowers the family suggests Justice of the Peace Hill fined him $10 and costs. The accident contributions to the Bentleyville United Methodist Church of occurred as they were driving to Barnesboro. Bentleyville Library. Indiana Evening Gazette April 20, 1935, Indiana, PA

Monessen Valley Independent, May 1, 1972, Monessen, PA Narrow Escape from Death McDonald Holds Mass Rites For Train Victims – Townspeople Crowd House on Southside Burns and Inmates Almost Suffocated Church For Funeral of Five Killed Thursday Before they are saved Special to the Pittsburgh Press A house on Seventh Street, Southside, owned by Gaspard Brasseur and occupied by the families of Mr. Brasseur and McDonald, PA – Dec. 9 – This community was in mourning today as August Schmidt, burned early Thursday. Mr. Brasseur was mass funeral services were held for five victims killed Thursday when a insured on his house and personal property for $1,100, which train struck the auto in which they were returning from a cottage prayer will not cover the loss. meeting. The funeral services, in which four ministers of the town The fire started under the stairway where a cat and her litter had participated were held in the First United Presbyterian Church. Every taken up their quarters and it is suspected that the cat may in seat was taken and crowds of townspeople lingered outside. some way have been responsible for the fire. The mother cat The victims, Charles A HAINAUT, Jr, 2; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth refused to leave her family and was burned up with them. HAINAUT, 26; his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth HOOKEY, 61; Mrs. The inmates of the house were asleep when the fire broke out Charles DICKINSON, 60 and Thomas LEWIS, 78, all of McDonald, and John Leach and William Landon, who were passing, had to break in the door to awaken them. Victor Brasseur was died when the auto of Dr. Charles A HAINAUT, s young dentist, was carried out almost suffocated and the open air was all that saved struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a private crossing. him. Dr. HAINAUT was injured critically but attaches at Canonsburg Victor Brasseur is the secretary of the Mutuels, a French benefit Hospital said he had a fair chance” of recovery. He was aware that his association and all his books were burned. It is said that son had been killed but news of his wife’s death was kept from him. between $500 and $600 was secreted about the house but all Dr. Cott A McCollam, pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church; was recovered before the fire reached it. Dr. O E Gardner, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; Dr. Rhoss T The loss of personal property is heavier at this time than it Campbell, pastor of the Robinson Run United Presbyterian Church and would have been a few days earlier, as the inmates of the house Rev. Ella Boger, pastor of the Christian Alliance Church, conducted had just laid in large quantities of clothing for summer. Hartford City Telegram, Hartford City, IN, 20 May 1903 services. The victims were members of the Christian Alliance, but its McDonald chapel was too small for the crowd which attended the Mr. and Mrs. Francis C Vincent, Mrs. Joseph Brasseur, services. All of the dead except Mrs. Dickinson were buried in Robinson Misses Eva and Leona Brasseur and Master Joseph Brasseur Run Cemetery at nearby Sturgeon. Mrs. Dickinson was buried in have returned to their home at Kanawha City after visiting Hilldale Cemetery, where a daughter is buried. relatives at Hartford City and Muncie, Ind, Mt Vernon and The Pittsburgh Press, December 10, 1939, Pittsburgh, PA Columbus, O. Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia, September 7, Adolph J PLETINCKS Jr., 83, of North Haven, Conn., died Sunday at 1938 Meriden-Wallingford Hospital. He was the band director at Beaver Falls High School from 1937 to 1947. During that time he directed the group in several state and national band competitions. The Muskingum College graduate earned a master of education degree at the University 121

BELGIAN LACES #149 of Pittsburgh and did other graduate work at Ohio State and Carnegie Mellon Universities. PLETINCKS was the music master at Choate School from 1947 until he retired in the late 1960s. He was a member of the International Rotary and Masonic Lodges in the Pittsburgh area. Survivors are a brother, John R., McDonald, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by four sisters. A service was conducted today by the Rev David A PLETINCKS, a nephew, at the chapel of Choate School. Interment was in Memoriam Cemetery. Beaver County Times, 22 November 1989, PA

Isabel R PLETINCKS, 78, of McDonald, died September 30, 1993 in her home. She was born April 3, 1915 in Pittsburgh, a daughter of Albert and Eva MASQUELIER SAPPIE. Mrs. PLETINCKS was a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church, McDonald and she was a homemaker. She was married to John PLETINCKS, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Dr. John PLETINCKS II of Florida and the Rev. David A PLETINCKS of New York; two daughters, Connie MINDEK of New Jersey and Joan MACHEK of Midway; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Deceased is one brother, Albert M SAPPIE. Observer-Reporter, 2 October 1993, Green County Edition, PA

Mrs. Janet MURDOCK HAINAUT, 72, died Tuesday March 14, 1961 at her home 10 Beech Street, Homer City. She was born August 14, 1888 in Sturgeon, Allegheny County, daughter of William and Isabel DONALD MURDOCK and had lived in Homer City since 1921. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Homer City. Her husband, Louis J HAINAUT preceded her in death in 1942. Surviving are these children: Joseph of Homer City, RD 2; William J of Blairsville R D 1; Mrs. William (Janet) SKULTETY of Homer City; these sisters: Mrs. Samuel T (Mary) McMILLEN of Homer City; Mrs. James (Margaret) McDOWELL of McDonald; Mrs. George (Lillian) SPELLMAN of Homer City RD2. There are five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Askew Funeral Home, Homer City, where services will be held Friday March 17 at 2pm. Officiating will be the Rev. William Sutherland and interment will be Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. – Indiana Evening Gazette, 16 March 1961, Indiana, PA

Seraphin SOUPLY8, a Belgian glass blower of Irwin, was struck by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad, Sunday and instantly killed. He was hurled several rods. He leaves a young wife. - The Weekly Courier, Connellsville, PA 26 Jun 1896

Louis SOUPLY9, aged 47 years, a farmer living in Rostraver township, just outside of Monessen, committed suicide at his home last evening about 5 o’clock. Despondency over ill health, with which he was suffering since he was stricken with the flu some years ago, is given as the cause. Yesterday morning he arose early and going to an adjoining room in which his family were asleep he kissed his wife and children and started down stairs. As he had been acting queer for some time his wife who had awakened, followed him. He went to the kitchen and securing a shotgun went out in the yard. Mrs. Souply followed him and finally induced her husband to give up the gun. He lounged about the house all day and appeared to be in better spirits. About 5 o’clock he got into a sullen mood and compelled his wife and four smaller children to leave the house. The oldest daughter, aged 15 years, remained in the house but the despondent man evidently was bent on self-destruction. He pushed the girl out of one of the doors and afterward locked every door. The girl afterward looked in a window and saw her father sharpening a large butcher knife. She ran screaming to a neighbors to which her mother had gone, but ere any help could be secured, Souply had wielded the knife with telling effect, severing his jug(u)lar vein, He must have died almost instantly as the gash in his throat would indicate. He is survived by his wife and five children. Souply was formerly a resident of Monessen, where he was employed in the mills. Some years ago, with the earnings he had saved he purchased the farm and was quite thrifty. During the recent flu epidemic his entire family was afflicted and Mr. Souply he had a severe tussle with the malady. It left him in a weakened condition and it is thought this preyed on his mind and caused him to become demented. The Daily Republican, 1 December 1921, Monongahela, PA

Charleroi Police Lieutenant Ulysses J SOUPLY was found dead in bed at his home early today. Death occurred at approximately 3am. He had been ill for some time with a heart condition. A son of the late Ulysses and Martha DELIANT SOUPLY, he was born in Canada March 25, 1913. He came to Charleroi with his family at the age of nine and attended Charleroi schools. He had been a member of the borough’s police force for approximately 17 years. His late home is at 313 Crest Avenue, Charleroi. He was a member of the Belgian, Eagles and Elks Clubs and Charleroi Turners. He was secretary of Charleroi Boosters Club and past president of Monongahela Valley Lodge 87, Fraternal Order of Police, serving in the latter office from 1957 to 1963 when ill health forced him to quit. Surviving him are his wife, Margaret Souply; one son, Ronald of Findlay, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Donna Rae) Burns of Ridgeview, Monongahela, RD 1; two grandchildren; one brother, Raymond of Speers and one sister Mrs. Isabelle Johnson of Detroit, Mich. Friends will be received from 2-5 and 7-10pm after 2pm. Wednesday at the Francis C Slezak Funeral Home. Third Street and Fallowfield Avenue, Charleroi. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The Daily Republican, 29 Sep 1964, Monongahela, PA

8 See marriage record listed in footnote 4 9 Death record gives his parents as Louis SOUPLY and Florence ROUSSEAU, both of France death date 30 November 1921. He was born in Courcelles, Hainaut, Belgium 25 Dec 1874 – Father Louis SOUPLY, Mother: Florine ROUSSEAUX who married 3 March 1888 in Courcelles – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-TP96-BW?i=706&wc=QZL7-H93%3A1055564001%2C1055696101%3Fcc%3D2138500&cc=2138500 The marriage record indicates other children born out of wedlock, registered under the names of Seraphin ROUSSEAUX born in Roux, Hainaut, 19 Dec 1872; Louis ROUSSEAUX, born in Courcelles 25 Dec 1874 and Clarisse Joseph ROUSSEAUX born 18 November 1876 in Roux. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-WJ79-WS?i=221&wc=QZL7-Z99%3A1055564001%2C1055744801%3Fcc%3D2138500&cc=2138500 122

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Belgians in 1911 British Columbia Extracted by Régine Brindle Name Relation Sex/Status Birth/Birth Place Emigration Religion Occupation District 3 - New Westminster, New Westminster 318/362 Schwahn, Charles Head/M/M Mar 1856/Germany 1888/Na Lutheran proprietor 318/362 Schwahn, Vannerck Wife/F/M Jul 1887 Belgium 1889/Na Lutheran none 318/362 Schwahn, Lily daughter/F/S Dec 1895/BC Lutheran none 318/362 Schwahn, Henry son/M/S Dec 1899/BC Lutheran none

399/ Bondeson, Edward Head/M/S Jan 1858 /Belgium 1907 Catholic nighttime watchman

413/441 Mandoy, John Lodger/F/M Oct 1861/Belgium 1908 Episcopal 413/441 Mandoy, Julia Lodger/M/M Feb 1868/USA 1910 Episcopal

5 - New Westminster, New Westminster, British Columbia 265/273 Morrison, Harry Head/M/M Jul 1887/USA 1910 R Catholic salesman 265/273 Demayer, Matilda mother/F/W Aug 1855/Belgium 1880 R Catholic none

6 - New Westminster, New Westminster, British Columbia 48/49 Druck, Harry lodger/M/S Jun 1887/Belgium 1909 Catholic cabinet maker

Gossens, Dominique M/M /Belgium R Catholic

8 - Richmond Riding, New Westminster, British Columbia Carias, John Gustave head/M/M Oct 1868/Belgium 1910 R Catholic florist Carias, Anna ? wife/F/M May 1873/France 1910 R Catholic none Carias, James ARG son/M/S Sep 1900/Scotland 1910 R Catholic none

207/207 Carroll, William head/M/M Feb 1866/England 1894 mormon ? 207/207 Carroll, Elizabeth wife/F/M Dec 1862/England 1894 mormon none 207/207 Carroll, Francis son/M/S Apr 1894/Belgium 1894 mormon Lather 207/207 Carroll, Christopher son/M/S May 1896/Belgium mormon messenger boy

44/44 Kara, John head/M/M Apr 1875/Ireland 1906 methodist carpenter 44/44 Kara, Bertha wife/F/M May 1884/Belgium 1907 R Catholic none 44/44 Sorenson, Erasmus father-in-law/M/M Aug 1866/Denmark 1906 presbyterian carpenter 44/44 Sorenson, Leocadie mother-in-law/F/M Feb 1866/Belgium 1907 R Catholic none

10 - Richmond Riding, Hastings Townsite, New Westminster, British Columbia 230/235 Haiden, Frans head/M/S Apr 1883/Belgium 1909 R Catholic salesman

11 - Richmond Riding, Hastings Townsite, New Westminster, British Columbia 26/26 Brown, F J head/M/M Jun 1885/Belgium 1871 R Catholic carpenter 26/26 Brown, Margaret wife/F/M Aug 1871/England 1892 R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Margaret daughter/F/S Oct 1889/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Joseph son/M/S Jun 1897/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Fred son/M/S Feb 1898/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Frank son/M/S Apr 1902/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Victor son/M/S Jul 1903/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Verona daughter/F/S Dec 1904/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Iva daughter/F/S Oct 1906/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Willay son/M/S Dec 1908/BC R Catholic none 26/26 Brown, Evaline daughter/F/S Dec 1910/BC R Catholic none

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Name Relation Sex/Status Birth/Birth Place Emigration Religion Occupation 21 - Delta, New Westminster, British Columbia 24/24 Ryckebaer, Jozef lodger/M/S Jun 1886/Belgium 1909 Catholic laborer

23 - Delta Riding, Surrey Municipality, New Westminster, British Columbia 133/137 Downbridge?, Frederic Head/M/S Nov 1870/Belgium 1908 R Catholic laborer 133/137 Sperktha, Lee Head/M/S Dec 1881/Belgium 1905 R Catholic laborer 133/137 Forbaert, Alfonse Head/M/S Aug 1890/Belgium 1910 R Catholic book maker 134/137 Vannezner, Raymond Head/M/S Jul 1887/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer

134/138 Gormener, Victor Head/M/M Mar 1872/Holland 1909 R Catholic laborer 134/138 Gormener, Berthena wife/F/M Jul 1881/Holland 1910 R Catholic laborer 134/138 Gormener, Hubert son/M/S Jul 1904/Belgium 1910 R Catholic none 134/138 Gormener,Whillimine daughter/F/S Jan 1911/BC R Catholic none 134/138 Gormener, Joseph ? son/M/S Jan ----/Belgium 1910 R Catholic none

134/138 Barletogh, Guino Head/M/S Nov 1872/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 134/138 Mertsdagh, Agustus Head/M/M Jun 1861/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 134/138 De ?, Cirile Head/M/S Aug 1879/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 134/138 Vermeulen, Gustaf Head/M/S Aug 1888/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 134/138 De Voght, Leon? Head/M/S Aug 1872/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer

135/139 Van Aiston?, John Head/M/M Feb 1875/Belgium 1909 R Catholic laborer 135/139 Van Aiston?, Ugene Wife/F/M Feb 1888/Belgium 1909 R Catholic none 135/139 Star, Honore Head/M/S Dec 1889/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 135/139 Leurlenn, Ciriel Head/M/S Feb 1873/Belgium 1910 R Catholic laborer 135/139 G?, Cirille Head/M/M Jul 1870/Belgium 1901 R Catholic manager

137/142 De Jonckhem, Arthur Head/M/M Feb 1885/Belgium 1904 laborer 137/142 De Jonckhem, Maria Wife/F/M 1886/Belgium 1904 R Catholic none 137/142 De Jonckhem, Susanna daughter/F/S Jul 1908/Manitoba 137/142 De Jonckhem, F ? son/M/S Dec 1910/Manitoba

/197 De Suen, Phillip Head/M/S Oct 1877/Belgium 1901 R Catholic shingle ?

/210 Jacobs, John Head/M/S Apr 1876/Belgium 1904 lutheran logger /210 Cravillon, Hegell? Head/M/S Mar 1877/Belgium 1904 lutheran logger

27 - Delta Riding, Langley Municipality, Aldergrove, New Westminster, British Columbia 60/60 Radlet, Octave Head/M/M Dec 1869/Belgium 1890 1898 R Catholic farmer 60/60 Radlet, Nellie wife/F/M Nov 1876/England 1880 R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Ernie son/M/S Aug 1896/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Harold A son/M/S Sep 1898/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Nellie M daughter/F/S Dec 1899/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Violet daughter/F/S Mar 1901/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Myrtle R daughter/F/S Oct 1902/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Louise daughter/F/S Jul 1904/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Leon son/M/S Oct 1906/BC R Catholic none 60/60 Radlet, Charles E son/M/S Mar 1908/BC R Catholic none

29 - Chilliwack Riding, Matsqui Municipality, New Westminster, British Columbia 130/130 Henrick, Camiel lodger/M/S Feb 1887/Belgium 1911 R Catholic laborer

/169 Purdy? C? Head/M/M Apr 1883/Belgium 1890 R Catholic carpenter /169 Purdy? Catharine wife/F/M Jun 1887/Manitoba R Catholic none

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Canadian Obituaries Sent by Elaine Putnam

VANBIESBROUCK, Adela Marie (nee Koekhuyt) - of Chatham passed away suddenly Jan 19, 2016 at the Residence on the Thames at the age of 89. Beloved wife of the late Joseph Vanbiesbrouck. Loving mother to Joanne and Kelly Hoppe of Windsor, Jim and Dorothy Vanbiesbrouck of Mississauga, Michael and Brenda Vanbiesbrouck of Chatham. Forever missed by her grandchildren Eric, David and Megan Vanbiesbrouck. Predeceased by her sister Mary Pinsonneault, and by her brother Joseph Koekhuyt. Adela had many talents, working miracles in a garden or with a sewing machine, just to name a few. But her real passion was caring for others as a volunteer and as a good friend to many over the last 25 years of her life at Residence on the Thames. She thrived on being needed by others, considering that the ultimate compliment. Adela will always be remembered for her determination, hard work and generosity of spirit. Special thanks to the staff at Residence on the Thames for their kindness and support. Honouring her wishes a Private Family Funeral and cremation will take place with interment to follow. Those wishing to leave an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Online condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com. McKINLAY FUNERAL HOME 459 St. Clair Street Chatham, Ontario 519-351-2040 - Presented By http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/

De CONINCK, André "Andy" - a long time Ridgetown area resident passed away at his Chatham home on Friday, January 28, 2016 at the age of 77. André was born in Denderhoutem, Belgium, son of the late Joseph and Odile (Hameryck) De Coninck. The family of three immigrated to Canada in 1947. He will be dearly missed by his daughter, Michelle De Coninck, son-in-law Brian Kuzemchuk, grand-daughters, Kira and Corrin Kuzemchuk all of Dryden, ON. He is survived by many nieces and nephews and Belgian cousins. Dad's adventurous spirit led him to travel throughout the USA and Europe in his early years, while spending twenty plus years as a retired snowbird avoiding the snow in Mexico. Early mornings brought Andy to his favourite coffee shops to consume a few cups of coffee while dissecting the local and national newspapers. Gone now are the weekly 1-2 hour telephone conversations with his daughter where topics ranged from politics, the Farm Market Report, changing weather patterns, European History Lessons and mostly the daily activities of his grand-daughters. As per André's wishes, cremation has taken place with a later Private Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. Donations to the Chatham Outreach for Hunger would be appreciated as André was a keen supporter. Online condolences will be accepted by McKinlay Funeral Home at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com. McKinlay Funeral Home459 St. Clair Street Chatham, Ontario 519-351-2040 13023004 - Presented By www.chathamdailynews.ca

Yolanda (Deschroder) Goethals (April 7, 1936 - January 28, 2016) - Passed away, peacefully, after a courageous struggle, on Thursday, January 28th, 2016, at the London Health Sciences Center (Victoria Campus) Yolanda (Deschroder) Goethals, of Tillsonburg, at the age of 79. (Member of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Tillsonburg). Predeceased by her beloved husband of 63 years, Julien Arthur Goethals (Jan. 19, 2012). Loved mother of: Yvonne More (John Marks), Tillsonburg; Marlene Goethals (Norm Sabourin), Simcoe; and Juliette (Mark Moore), Windsor. Proud and loving Grandmother of Daxton More (Ashley), Anne (Zander Broeckel); and Robert Moore and “GG” to three great-grandchildren: Drake, Lola and Bennett. Also survived by a sister: Sabina (Tony Deroo), of Woodstock and also nieces, nephews and cousins. Friends, neighbours and relatives will be received by the family on Monday, February 1st, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Verhoeve Funeral Home Chapel, Tillsonburg. Parish Prayers Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. by Rev. Fr. Tom Ferrera of the St. Mary’s R.C. Church, Tillsonburg. Funeral Liturgy Service to be conducted by Deacon Jack Grim on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at VERHOEVE FUNERAL HOME Chapel, 262 Broadway St., Tillsonburg. Interment to follow in the Tillsonburg Cemetery. Memorial donations are payable (by cheque only) to the “Cancer Society” or the “Parkinson’s Foundation” through the Verhoeve Funeral Home, Tillsonburg (519)84 - posted online 29 Jan 2016

Michel (Mike) George Jr. Demaiter (November 22, 1943 - March 23, 2016) - Peacefully, Surrounded by his loving family, Michel passed away at the Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016, at the age of 72 years. Michel was a life- long resident of Tillsonburg, born on November 22nd, 1943, to the late Michel and Martha Demaiter of Flanders, Belgium. A devoted husband of 45 years to Maureen, and cherished father to Bradley (Heidi), Kimberley (Ron), Michel (Linda), Richard (Hayley), and Christopher. Proud grandfather to Ashley, Brooke, Ryan, Michael, Joel, Allison, Luke, Lily, Makenna, and Ryan. Beloved brother to Georgette, Annette, and brother-in-law to Carol, Mary-Lou, Joe, Betty, Robert and Marcel. He is predeceased by his sisters Rachel Demaree, his brother-in-law Frank Gahagan, and nephews, Mark Bridle, and Kevin Smith. He will be deeply missed by so many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Michel was happiest working on his tobacco farm, and spending time at home with his family. He led a virtuous life, was a man respected and admired by all who knew him, and a faithful parishioner to St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Visitation will be held at the VERHOEVE FUNERAL HOME, Tillsonburg on Monday, March 28th, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (prayers at 6:30 p.m.). Funeral Service will be held at St. George’s Catholic Church, Courtland on Tuesday, March 29th at 12 noon, officiated by Rev. Fr. Tom Ferrera, of the St. Mary's Catholic Church, Tillsonburg. Memorial donations can be made in his memory to “St. Mary’s Catholic Church” or “Prostate Cancer Canada,” through the Verhoeve Funeral Home, Tillsonburg (519)842-4238. Verhoeve Funeral Homes Limited - posted online by funeral home on 25 March 2016 125

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Kenneth Ongena - A resident of Peterborough, Ken passed away at his home at the age of 62. Born in London, son of the late Maurice and Janet (Lochrie) Ongena. Survived by siblings Maureen (Brian) Nettleton, Jim (Toni) Ongena, Bonnie (late Ron) Lewsaw, and Glenn Ongena. Brother-in-law to Don Flaglor (Karen Labute) and Betty Ongena. Will be missed by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased also by sister Peg Flaglor, Joe (late Shirley) Ongena and Murray Ongena. A Memorial Gathering will be held for Ken at the Air Force Club, 274 King St. Peterborough, on Saturday March 26, 2016 at 2pm. A Service will be held in Chatham at a later date. Donations in memory of Ken would be appreciated by the family to Ontario Parks, Cheques Made Payable to “Minister of Finance - Ontario Parks”. Online condolences can be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com. McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair St. Chatham, Ontario 519-351-2040 - POSTED ONLINE BY McKINLAY FUNERAL HOME, Chatham, Ontario on 23 March 2016

Marie Jeanne (Susie) Phillips (January 31, 1938 - April 14, 2016) - Passed away peacefully, into the loving arms of her Lord and Saviour on Thursday, April 14th, 2016, Marie (Susie) Phillips, formerly of RR4 Langton, at the Norview Lodge, Simcoe, with her loving son, Larry and daughter, Tammy by her side, at the age of 78. Susie is predeceased by her beloved husband and best friend of forty years Harvey C. Phillips (July, 18th, 1998). Much loved mother of; Larry (Yoge) Phillips and friend Rita, of RR4 Langton; and Tammy McIntyre, of Langton. Proud and loving “Gram” of; Nicholas (Janet), Tyler (Ashley), Aaron (Melissa), Matthew (Kara), Chad (Alison) and Jenna (Nathan); and great-grandmother of: Hayden, Callan and Everly. Predeceased by her best friend Hilda (2009) and also predeceased by her parents: Frank Marissen and the former Virginia Vandermeiren. A Funeral Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, at 10:00 am at the Sacred Heart R.C. Church, Albert Street, Langton, by Rev. Father Slawomir Szwagrzyk. Interment followed in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Langton. Memorial donations in Susie’s memory are payable (by cheque only) to the “Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital”, through the Verhoeve Funeral Home, Langton, (519) 842-4238. A special thank-you to the PSW’s who came to the home to help, to the staff at Norview Lodge, to Dr. Medve, and to the Emergency workers and the staff at Norfolk General Hospital. Personal condolences and shared memories can be made at www.verhoevefuneralhomes.com.

PALOCZ, August Stephen 'Gus' - A resident of St. Clair Township, died suddenly at home on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at the age of 75. Gus is the son of the late August & Ester (Vago) Palocz. Beloved husband of Helen (VanDamme). Loved father of Chris (Sylvana), Ray (Tammy), Jeff (Tracey Bolton) and the late Larry (2011) (Barb) and late Wayne (1964). Dear grandfather of Braden, Alexandra, Amanda, Miranda, Paige, Peyton, Mariah, Hannah, Rio, Randy, Jacob and the late Austin. Brother of Shirley Vandenbogaerde (Joe). He will be missed by his many brother & sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. Gus farmed in St. Clair Township and started Gus Palocz & Sons Trucking. The family will receive relatives and friends at the HAYCOCK-CAVANAGH FUNERAL HOME , 409 Nelson Street in Wallaceburg from 1-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday. The Funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Port Lambton on Saturday, April 30 at 11 AM. Interment to follow at Riverview Cemetery. If desired, remembrances to the Children's Wish Foundation or Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CDLS) may be left at the funeral home. 519.627.3231. Online tributes may be left at www.CavanaghFuneralHome - posted online by The Chatham Daily News, Chatham, Ontario - 1 May 2016

DEVOS, Andrew - Passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 in his 89th year. Loving husband of Lorraine for 66 years. Cherished father of Linda (Roy) Shank and Ron (Margaret) Devos. Proud Grandpa of Derek (Heather) Shank, Jacqueline (Will) Raymond and Jennifer Devos. Great- grandfather of Andrew and Cooper Shank. Dear brother of the late Roger (1980) (the late Adrianne, 2004), George (the late Georgette, 2012) and Rose (Fred) Polowick. He will also be missed by many nieces, nephews and friends. Visitation will be held at Victoria Greenlawn Funeral Home (1525 Hwy #3 519-969-3939) on Friday, May 20, 2016 from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Parish prayers at 4:00 p.m. Visiting will continue on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at St. Clement's Parish in McGregor from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral mass at 11:00 a.m. Cremation to follow. Donations in memory of Andrew may be made to the Windsor Downtown Lions Club. - Published in The Windsor Star on May 20, 2016 - posted online 19 May 2016

Mr. Lawrence "Slim" DeMaeyer (October 9 1930 - July 22, 2016) a resident of Wallaceburg passed away on Friday, July 22, 2016 at Sydenham Residence, in Wallaceburg, at the age of 85. Lawrence "Slim" was born in Tupperville, Ontario. Beloved husband of the late Mabel (Caron) DeMaeyer (1999). Dear father and father-in-law of Lou (Terri-Lee Seeley) DeMaeyer, Lawrence (Carrie-Lynn) DeMaeyer and Marty (Shawn Derbyshire) DeMaeyer. Kind brother of George (Pat) DeMaeyer and Lorraine (Melvin) Bechard. Predeceased by his brothers Albert, Joe, Frank and Cyril. Arrangements entrusted to the Eric F. Nicholls Funeral Home Ltd. 639 Elgin St., Wallaceburg. At Lawrence's request, cremation has taken place. As an expression of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.ericfnichollsfuneralhome.com. As a living memorial, a tree will be planted in Nicholls Memorial Forest in memory of Lawrence "Slim" DeMaeye

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Belgian Passengers to America: On the Belgenland - from Antwerp to New York, arriving 19 Nov 1892 Extracted by Régine Brindle Name Age Sex Occupation citizen of Native country last residence Going To Atwater, Mss S M 24 F none USA Belgium Bermin Rock Island, IL Dele Croix, Mr Ad. 35 M engineer Belgium Belgium Cario Chicago, IL Dele Croix, Mr. J 33 F wife Belgium Belgium Cario Chicago, IL De Regger, Rev H 62 M clergyman USA Belgium RochesterNY Dubois, Mr. Louis 40 M none USA Belgium Antwerp Tarentum Dubois, Mrs. 38 F wife USA Belgium Antwerp Tarentum Dubois, Miss Louise 18 F child USA Belgium Antwerp Tarentum Dubois, Miss Clemence 15 F none USA Belgium Antwerp Tarentum Dubois, Miss Marie 10 F none USA Belgium Antwerp Tarentum Engels, Mrs. Marie 45 F none Belgium Belgium Antwerp New York Engels, Mr Lebrecht 12 M child Belgium Belgium Antwerp New York Ulmer, Mr. Robert 53 M merchant USA Belgium Dusseldorf New York Ulmer, Miss Marg 24 F child USA Belgium Dusseldorf New York Thys, Franz 33 M cigar maker Belgium Belgium Antwerp New York Plegter?, Cornelius 37 M cigar maker USA Belgium Antwerp New York VandeVelden, Fried 30 M labourer Belgium Belgium Kieldrecht Norway, MI VandeVelden, Philipine 27 F wife Belgium Belgium Kieldrecht Norway, MI VandeVelden, Gustav 4 M child Belgium Belgium Kieldrecht Norway, MI VandeVelden, Edmond 3 M child Belgium Belgium Kieldrecht Norway, MI VandeVelden, Jeanne 7m F child Belgium Belgium Kieldrecht Norway, MI Lucas, Eugene 29 M labourer USA Belgium Antwerp New York Servais, Eugene 28 M farmer Belgium Belgium Petit Rosiere Green Bay, WI Damoiseau, Georg 38 M merchant Belgium Belgium Roux New York Martens, Henri 22 M farmer Belgium Belgium Ardoye Punxsutawney, PA Mullaert, Euphrasie 25 F none Belgium Belgium Antwerp Punxsutawney, PA Noy, H? 10m M child Belgium Belgium Antwerp Punxsutawney, PA Fohder, Lisy 27 M shoemaker Belgium Belgium Blankenbergh Chicago, IL Barvais, Valentin 40 M glassworker Belgium Belgium Jumet New York Deschauwer, Evariste 25 M miner Belgium Belgium Jumet New York Dusbeque, Cheri? 29 M miner Belgium Belgium Jumet New York Deraux, Emil 29 M labourer Belgium Belgium Jumet Ford City, PA Frere, Joseph 27 M glassworker Belgium Belgium Jumet Fostoria, OH Aigrisse, Alida 24 F wife Belgium Belgium Jumet Fostoria, OH Porignaux, Alexander 33 M miner Belgium Belgium Roux Butler, PA Verkleren, Alfred 26 M miner Belgium Belgium Roux Charleroy, PA Alexander, Jean 26 M glassworker Belgium Belgium Charleroi Charleroy, PA Pierret, Jules 30 M butcher Belgium Belgium Petit Voir? Butler, PA Chinot, Alphonse 19 M glassworker Belgium Belgium Antwerp Butler, PA Molhan, Isidore 48 M glassworker Belgium Belgium Antwerp Butler, PA Molhan, Felicien 18? M glassworker Belgium Belgium Antwerp Butler, PA Allard, Hector 17 M weaver Belgium Belgium Franklin New York Taconnet, Evrard 33 M clerk Belgium Belgium Antwerp New York Delhaye, Servais 43 M clerk Belgium Belgium Antwerp New York Adam, Jos Alb 29 M miner Belgium Belgium Jumet British Columbia Corbisier, J Bte 30 M farmer Luxembourg Luxembourg Bertrix Ford City, PA Schleise, Marga 25 F wife Luxembourg Luxembourg Bertrix Ford City, PA George, Albert 21 M farmer Belgium Belgium Marel? Ford City, PA Lambert, August 22 M farmer Belgium Belgium Bertrix Ford City, PA Vangyzel, Leonard 29 M miner Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Vangyzel, Marie 24 F wife Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Vangyzel, Erena 3 F child Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Vangyzel, August 7m M child Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Debrackelaer, Auguste 52 M butcher Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Debrackelaer, Beradine 51 F wife Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Debrackelaer, Celina 18 F none Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Debrackelaer, Henri 9 M child Belgium Belgium Gilly Noblestown, PA Pannekouck, Aug 34 M miner Belgium Belgium Ransart McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Fernande 29 F wife Belgium Belgium Ransart McDonald, PA Pannekouck, August 10 M child Belgium Belgium Ransart McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Julien 8 M child Belgium Belgium Ransart McDonald, PA 127

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Pannekouck, Arthur 1y6m M child Belgium Belgium Ransart McDonald, PA de Vlaminck, Felix 32 M farmer USA Belgium Denderlaer? New York DeVilk, Leopold 27 M farmer USA Belgium Denderlaer? New York Francois, Leon 21 M labourer Belgium Belgium Arlon Aurora IL Mets, Louis M 21 M labourer Belgium Belgium Antwerp South Bend, IN Liessen, Matt 34 M confectionneer Belgium Belgium Liege Ford City, PA Pierret, Marie 18 F servant Belgium Belgium Namur Butler, PA Desmet, Henri 36 M engineer Belgium Belgium Dampremy Ford City, PA Desmet, Augusta 34 F wife Belgium Belgium Dampremy Ford City, PA Desmet, Augusta 9 F child Belgium Belgium Dampremy Ford City, PA Desmet, Egida 8 F child Belgium Belgium Dampremy Ford City, PA Desmet, Julia 3 F child Belgium Belgium Dampremy Ford City, PA Pannekouck, Jean 33 M miner Belgium Belgium Gilly McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Jeanne 30 F wife Belgium Belgium Gilly McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Marin 9 M child Belgium Belgium Gilly McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Alfred 4y6m M child Belgium Belgium Gilly McDonald, PA Pannekouck, Onora 1y6m F child Belgium Belgium Gilly McDonald, PA Hoffmann, Fr 46 M labourer USA Belgium Antwerp Pittsburg, PA Hoffmann, Emilie 20 F wife USA Belgium Antwerp Pittsburg, PA Hoffmann, Josef 15 M child USA Belgium Antwerp Pittsburg, PA Hoffmann, Michel 11 M child USA Belgium Antwerp Pittsburg, PA Hoffmann, Jean 10 M child USA Belgium Antwerp Pittsburg, PA Van Thoed, Josephine 42 F cigarmaker Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Van Thoed, Alphe 7 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Slock, Monica 22 F servant Belgium Belgium Eeckloo South Bend, IN Slock, Theophile 2 F child Belgium Belgium Eeckloo South Bend, IN Baron, Elise 31 F none Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Baron, Peter 8 M child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Baron, Marie 6 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Baron, Franz 3 M child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Jeanne 37 F servant Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Elise 18 F servant Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Cathe 16 F servant Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Maria 12 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Isabella 8 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Jeanne 5 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Demunter, Joseph 3 M child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Hack, Maria 38 F servant Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Hack, Ariette 17 F servant Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Hack, Frank 11 M child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York De Clercq, Frank 42 M weaver Belgium Belgium Paterson New York De Clercq, Louise 32 F wife Belgium Belgium Paterson New York De Clercq, Henry 11 M child Belgium Belgium Paterson New York De Clercq, Cordula 9 F child Belgium Belgium Paterson New York De Clercq, Leopold 30 M child Belgium Belgium Paterson South Bend, IN VanderHeyden, Barba 57 F cigarmaker Belgium Belgium Brussels New York VanderHeyden, Maria 15 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York VanderHeyden, Catha 11 F child Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Lannoy, Pierre 31 M cooper Belgium Belgium Molenbeek New York Lieve, Josse 42 M cigar maker Belgium Belgium Brussels New York Verplacke, Louise 28 F servant Belgium Belgium Gent South Bend, IN Landurt, August 2 M child Belgium Belgium Gent South Bend, IN Van Lieberghe, Leonie 34 F servant Belgium Belgium Gent Rock Island, IL Vermonde, Arthur 10 M child Belgium Belgium Gent Rock Island, IL Vermonde, Alina 8 F child Belgium Belgium Gent Rock Island, IL Vermonde, Merchel 4 M child Belgium Belgium Gent Rock Island, IL Vermonde, Rachel 1 M child Belgium Belgium Gent Rock Island, IL Termond, Theophil 22 M painter Belgium Belgium Nevele Rock Island, IL Doumont, Edmond 9 M child Belgium Belgium Nevele Midway, PA Doumont, Marie 4 F child Belgium Belgium Nevele Midway, PA Doumont, Juliette 2 F none Belgium Belgium Nevele Midway, PA Doumont, Marie 35 F none Belgium Belgium Auvelais Midway, PA Arnould, Isidore 35 M labourer Belgium Belgium Namur Ford City, PA 128

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Mollet, Emile 21 M private Belgium Belgium Fannier? Tarentum, PA Michaux, Jos 14 M none Belgium Belgium Fannier? Tarentum, PA Michaux, J Bt 11 M none Belgium Belgium Fannier? Tarentum, PA Van Gausbecke, Marie 26 F servant Belgium Belgium Velhelden New York

The Belgenland was built in 1914 and originally intended to be the world's largest liner, with a length of 1000 foot and a gross tonnage of about 80,000 tons, to be named Ceric. Because she was needed for the war effort, she was hastily finished with only two smokestacks and a superstructure only one deck high and renamed Belgic. Initially used for carrying cargo, in 1918 she was converted with accommodation for up to 3,000 troops. She remained in her troopship guise until April 1921, when she was laid up at Liverpool. There were no berths available at any of the shipyards so that she could be rebuilt. Harland & Wolff finally had a free berth, and in March 1922 she was towed to Belfast, where work on her reconstruction began in earnest. She was given to the Red Star Line and renamed Belgenland. She was the second Red Star ship to be given this name. She was given a superstructure four decks in height and a third smokestack. Her tonnage was increased to over 27,000 gross tons, making her Red Star’s largest and most luxurious ship. She remained on her route for a decade, and occasionally spent time on extensive world and winter cruises. On 4 December 1924 she embarked on a 133-day world cruise — one of the longest attempted by a luxury liner at the time - advertised as "The Largest Ship to Circle the Globe". One of her most famous passengers was Albert Einstein. Returning to Germany on board her in 1933, he found out Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Einstein got off the ship at Antwerp, sailed on another Red Star Liner back to the United States (the Westernland), and vowed never to return to Germany. During the Depression she was reduced to sailing on short cruises and one day excursions from New York, charging $4 a passenger. Laid up in the winter of 1932-33, she made only three voyages the following summer, and they were Mediterranean cruises. The millionaires who took her lengthy and expensive cruises were now unable to do so. Then she made a few more cruises from London, before being laid up again in September at the Port of London. She was purchased by the Atlantic Transport Company in January 1935 and renamed ‘’Columbia’’. She was placed with their subsidiary, Panama Pacific Line and placed on the New York — California service via the Panama Canal. This venture failed and another attempt was made to place her on the New York – West Indies route, stopping at Miami, Nassau, and Havana, but this too failed. She was too large for either service and was once again laid up, this time permanently. On 22 April 1936 she sailed from New York to the United Kingdom, was sold for scrap, and her scrapping commenced on 4 May of that year at Bo'ness Scotland. Also available as a card - see this listing: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/289317641

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Adam, Jos Alb p127 Arend, Nicolas p96, 97 Boisart, Elise p101 Aigrisse, Alida p127 Arend, Pauline p95 Boisart, Fernand p101 Alexander, Jean p127 Arend, Peter p95, 97 Boisart, Suzanne p101 Allard, Hector p127 Arend, Peter W p96 Bondeson, Edward p123 Allarding, Anne Marie Caroline p95 Arend, Pierre p97, 98 Bouillez, Gaston p101 Allarding, Anthony p95 Arend, Rosa p95 Bouillez, Germaine p101 Allarding, Elen p95 Arnould, Isidore p128 Bouillez, Leon p101 Allarding, Elizabeth p95 Atwater, Mss S M p127 Bouillez, Marcel p101 Allarding, Ferdinand p95 Backeis, Andrew Anthony p99 Bouillez, Marthe p101 Allarding, Jean Michel p94 Backeis, Catherine p99 Bouillez, Victor p101 Allarding, John Theodore p95 Backeis, Frank p99 Braet, Ivon p100 Allarding, Josiah p95 Backeis, Jacob p99 Brasseur, Eva p121 Allarding, Laura p95 Backeis, John Peter p99 Brasseur, Joseph p121 Allarding, Mathias p95 Backeis, Joseph p99 Brasseur, Leona p121 Allarding, Michael p94 Backeis, Louis p99 Brasseur, Victor p121 Allarding, Nicolas p94 Backeis, Nicholas p99 BRISSY, Ferdinand p101 Allarding, Peter p95 Backeis, Philomena p99 Brown, Evaline p123 Ancelet, Alfred p117 Backes, Andre Auguste p98 Brown, F J p123 Ancelet, Elizabeth p117 Backes, August p99 Brown, Frank p123 Antoine, Augusta p100 Backes, Isaac p99 Brown, Fred p123 Antoine, Charles p100 Backes, Jacques p98 Brown, Iva p123 Antoine, Emile p100 Backes, Jean Baptiste Victor p98 Brown, Joseph p123 Antoine, Leona p100 Backes, Jean Nicolas p98 Brown, Margaret p123 Antoine, Marie p100 Backes, Joseph p98 Brown, Verona p123 Antoine, Marie Catherine Yacinthe p94 Backes, Joseph Augustin p98 Brown, Victor p123 Arend, Andrew Nicholas p96 Backes, Josephine p99 Brown, Willay p123 Arend, Anna p95, 97 Backes, Marie Agnes p98 Bullit, Eugene B p117 Arend, Anna Clara p97 Backes, Marie Joseph p98 Bullit, Harriet C p117 Arend, Anna Mary p96 Backes, Marie Josephine p98 Bullit, Lorrien L p117 Arend, Anne p96 Backes, Mary p99 Bullit, Paul C p117 Arend, Anne Catherine p96 Backes, Michael p99 Bullit, Sarah J p117 Arend, Catherine p95, 97 Backes, Nicholas Joseph p98, 99 Buquet, Susan p98 Arend, Clara Mathias p98 Backes, Peter p99 Carias, Anna ? p123 Arend, Dominic A p96 Backes, Rose p98 Carias, James ARG p123 Arend, Dominic F p96 Backes, Susan p99 Carias, John Gustave p123 Arend, Dominick p95-97 Backes, Victor Pierre Louis p98 Carroll, Christopher p123 Arend, Elizabeth p97 Barker, Alexander p117 Carroll, Elizabeth p123 Arend, Elizabeth Lizzie p95 Barker, George p117 Carroll, Francis p123 Arend, George p97 Barker, Gordon P p117 Carroll, William p123 Arend, Guillaume p97 Barker, Mary p117 Cauwenberg, Jeannette p101 Arend, Henry p97 Barker, Stella p117 Chapelle, Adolphe p100 Arend, Isadore p97 Barletogh, Guino p124 Chapelle, Maurice p100 Arend, Jane p97 Baron, Elise p128 Chartier, Auguste p101 Arend, Jeanne p97 Baron, Franz p128 Chartier, Marguerite p101 Arend, Joanna Mathilda p97, 98 Baron, Marie p128 Chartier, Vital p101 Arend, John p96 Baron, Peter p128 Cheron, Alphonse p101 Arend, John Baptist p97 Barvais, Valentin p127 Cheron, Fernand p101 Arend, Joseph p97 Baum, Lydia p94 Cheron, Julien p101 Arend, Lawrence p95, 96 Baum, Rebecca p94 Cheron, Pierre p101 Arend, Lucy May p97 Beck, Marie p100 Cheron, Virginie p101 Arend, Margaret p95 Berdal, Alexandre p101 Chinot, Alphonse p127 Arend, Marie p96, 97 Berdal, Augustine p100 Collard, Albertine p114 Arend, Martin p95, 97 Bertrand, Louis p100 Collard, Eugenie p114 Arend, Mary p95, 96 Bezy, Delphine p117 Corbisier, J Bte p127 Arend, Mary Agnes p97 Bezy, John J p117 Cossart, Celestine p100 Arend, Mary Ann p96 Bezy, Julius p117 Cravillon, Hegell? p124 Arend, Nicholas p96, 97 Bezy, Mary I p117 Dabfontaine, Catherine Josephine p98 130

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Dacosse, Eugene p112, 113 Demunter, Maria p128 Doumont, Marie p128 Damoiseau, Georg p127 Deraux, Emil p127 Dowd, Anastasia p116 Day, Emelia p116 Deschamps, Florent p115 Dowd, Francis B p116 Day, Enoch A p116 Deschamps, Katy p115 Dowd, George L p116 Day, Helen E p116 Deschauwer, Evariste p127 Dowd, Minnie p116 Day, John R p116 Desmet, Augusta p128 Dowd, Philip A p116 Day, Joseph J p116 Desmet, Augusta p128 Dowd, Rose M p116 Day, Josephine M p116 Desmet, Egida p128 Dowd, Virginia E p116 Day, Theodor W p116 Desmet, Henri p128 Downbridge?, Frederic p124 Day, Theodore C p116 Desmet, Julia p128 Druck, Harry p123 De ?, Cirile p124 Deviaene, Richard p108 Druwe, Cameal p108 De Clercq, Cordula p128 Devidts, Werner p108 Dubare, Julian p108 De Clercq, Frank p128 DeVilk, Leopold p128 Duberre, Hector p108 De Clercq, Henry p128 Devillez, Marie p97 Dubois, Miss Clemence p127 De Clercq, Leopold p128 Devolder, Adolph p108 Dubois, Miss Louise p127 De Clercq, Louise p128 Devolder, Edmond p108 Dubois, Miss Marie p127 De Jonckhem, Arthur p124 Devolder, Rene p108 Dubois, Mr. Louis p127 De Jonckhem, F ? p124 Devos, Aime p108 Dubois, Mrs. p127 De Jonckhem, Maria p124 Devos, Andrew p126 Dubois, Remi p108 De Jonckhem, Susanna p124 Devos, Caesar p108 Ducastel, Maurice p108 De Regger, Rev H p127 Devos, Cyril p108 Ducat, Francois Joseph p112 De Suen, Phillip p124 Devos, Louis p108 Dufour, Edward p108 de Vlaminck, Felix p128 Devos, Medard p108 Dugardain, Valere p108 De Vleeschauwer, Constance p101 Devriendt, Henry p108 Dujardin, Arthur p108 De Vleeschauwer, Isidore p101 Devrieze, Reme p108 Dumon, Leon p109 De Voght, Leon? p124 Devroe, Joseph p108 Dumon, Victor p109 Debourle, Julie p101 Devurlder, Camille p108 Dumont, Henri p101 Debrackelaer, Auguste p127 Devuyst, August p108 Dumont, Marie p101 Debrackelaer, Beradine p127 Dewachter, Dewey p108 Dupont, Remi p109 Debrackelaer, Celina p127 Dewandel, Arthur Joseph p108 Duquesbe Quinet, Hotense p121 Debrackelaer, Henri p127 Dewey, Ralph p108 Durans, Octave p111 Debreau, John p113 Dewilde, Remide p108 Dusbeque, Cheri? p127 DeConinck, Andre p125 Dewine, Leo p108 Duvriese, Baptist p109 DeConinck, Joseph p125 Dewispelaeze, Alphonsus p108 Duyck, Emory p109 Dejardin, Lucie p92 Dewitte, Polydore p108 Duyvejonck, Julis p109 Delaire, Lucia p100 Dewolf, Alois p108 Edumond F Engels p109 Delaire, Lucien p100 Dewolf, Cerill p108 Edwards, Alfred p117 Delaire, Rene p100 Dewolf, Henry p108 Eeckhout, August p109 Dele Croix, Mr Ad. p127 Dewolf, Leo p108 Eeckhout, Julien p109 Dele Croix, Mr. J p127 Dewolf, Richard p108 Eeckkhoute, Julius p109 Delhaye, Servais p127 Dewulf, Andre p108 Eelbode, Edmond L p109 Deliant, Martha (Souply) p122 Deygers, Richard p108 Eggarmont, Vazere p109 Dellis, Flora p115 Dhaese, Gustave p108 Eggermont, Camiel p109 Dellis, Joseph p115 Dhase, Theophiel p108 Ehanwars, Richard p109 Dellis, Leona p115 Dhelbt, Victor p108 Elckhout, Joseph p109 Dellis, Lewis p115 Dhondt, Henry p108 Eloot, Emiel p109 Dellis, Lois p115 Dickinson, Charles p121 Emanell, Albert p109 Dellis, Oscar p115 Divito, Loue p108 Embo, Albert p109 Dellis, Theophile p115 Diyvejonek, Emil p108 Emerck, Ceriel p109 DeMaeyer, Lawrence p126 Dobbelarr, Leon p108 Engels, Mr Lebrecht p127 Demaiter, Michel George Jr p125 Doenens, Arthur p108 Engels, Mrs. Marie p127 Demayer, Matilda p123 Doniker, Rimo D p108 Erb, Elizabeth p116 Demunter, Cathe p128 Donnay, Pierre p93 Erb, Jacob p116 Demunter, Elise p128 Dosgult, Leon p108 Erb, John P p116 Demunter, Isabella p128 Doskaut, Oscar p108 Erkins, Victor p109 Demunter, Jeanne p128 Doumont, Edmond p128 Everaerdt, Axheil p109 Demunter, Joseph p128 Doumont, Juliette p128 Feck, Johann p94 131

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Feck, Nicholas p94 Gilboux, Julius p115 Hemberg, Hubert Julion p110 Ferbeke, Reene p109 Gille, Frank p110 Hendryckx, Leonard p110 Ferret, Alfonse p109 Gilson, Fabian p107 Henrick, Camiel p124 Feyert, Odrel p109 Gilson, Mabel p107 Henrotin, Louis p113 Feys, Julion p109 Ginet, Alzire p100 Henrotin, Marie Francese p113 Fiers, George p109 Godart, Celine p100 Henrotin, Mary Albertine p113 Fisher, Bell p109 Godart, Germaine p100 Henrotin, Mary Terese (Robin) p113 Flamez, Leopold p109 Goedertier, Ernest p110 Herlache, Harold p107 Flamish, Achiel p109 Goemaere, Emiel p110 Herman, Arthur p110 Fleming, Gustaf p109 Goenen, George Robert p110 Herman, Constant p110 Fleming, Hector p109 Goethals, Gustaf p110 Herman, Joseph p110 Floebeke, Omar p109 Goethals, Gustav p110 Herquin, Armande p101 Fly, Arthur p109 Goethals, Julien p125 Herquin, Emile p101 Fohder, Lisy p127 Goethals, Julies p110 Herquin, Fernand p101 Folens, Francis p109 Goethals, Leon p110 Herregodts, Odil p110 Forbaert, Alfonse p124 Goethals, Yolanda (Deschroder) p125 Hersman, Adolph p110 Fotte, Emil p109 Goossens, Frank M p110 Heyman, Camille p110 Foubert, Bene p109 Gormener, Berthena p124 Heyman, Felix p110 Francois, Leon p128 Gormener, Hubert p124 Hieber, Walther F p110 Frere, Joseph p127 Gormener, Joseph ? p124 Hoebeke, Beni p110 Freyman, Anne p96 Gormener, Victor p124 Hoebeke, Constant p110 Freyman, Michel p96 Gormener,Whillimine p124 Hoffmann, Emilie p128 Fronville, Albertine p114 Gossens, Dominique p123 Hoffmann, Fr p128 Fronville, Antoine Joseph p113 Gotts, Emerik p110 Hoffmann, Jean p128 Fronville, Florent p114 Gouwy, Joseph p110 Hoffmann, Josef p128 Fronville, Jean Louis p111, 112, 114 Grassart, Hermance p100 Hoffmann, Michel p128 Fronville, Joseph p112, 113, 114 Greff, Chas p110 Hofkens, Frank p110 Fronville, Maria p114 Grip, Louis p110 Holsbeck, Rene p110 Fronville, Marie Francoise p114 Grymonprez, Camiel p110 Holsbeke, Hector p110 Fronville, Marie Louise p114 Grymonprez, Charles p110 Holvoet, Gustaf p110 Frooninckx, J Norbert p113 Gryseels, Kamel p110 Homme, Marie Catherine Jenne p113 Frueyman, August p109 Gryzeel, Henry p110 Hookey, Elizabeth p121 G?, Cirille p124 Gryzeel,Frank p110 Hoornaert, Julian p110 Gabriels, Alfons C p109 Guillette, Evangeline p107 Hork, Della p117 Gabriels, Chris p109 Guillette, Jule p107 Horrie, Arthur p110 Gabriels, Henry p109 Gunst, Richard p110 Horrie, Maurice p110 Galle, Alfonce p109 Gurdebeke, Alphons p110 Hostan, Joseph Felix p110 Galsanthier, Ann Catharine p94 Gurdebeke, Camiel p110 Houtekeete, Alfred p110 Gat, Gentiel p109 Hack, Ariette p128 Houttekier, Henri Joseph p110 Gauche, Nicholas p96 Hack, Frank p128 Hugelier, Camiel p110 Gauthier, HP p112 Hack, Maria p128 Hugelier, Henry p110 Gelenem, Prosper p109 Haentgens, Peter p110 Hugo, Eugene p110 Genin, Maria Joanna p99 Haesaert, Henry p110 Jacobs, John p124 George Lefevre p109 Haesaert, Leon p110 Jacques, Jessie p117 George, Albert p127 Haezebronck, Emrick J p110 Jacques, Laura U p117 Germonpre, August p109 Haiden, Frans p123 Jacques, Nellie p117 Gerwig, Arthur p109 Hainaut, Charles A p121 Jacques, Robert p117 Ghekiere, Frank p109 Hainaut, Elizabeth p121 James, John B p117 Gheldof, Emil p109 Hainaut, Janet (Skultety) p122 James, Julia C p117 Ghesquiere, David p109 Hainaut, Joseph p122 James, Mary V p117 Ghesquiere, Louis p109 Hainaut, Lillian (Spellman) p122 Jennebauffe, Celeste p100 Gilbert, Albert p109 Hainaut, Louis J p122 Jennebauffe, Lea p100 Gilbert, George J p109 Hainaut, Margaret (McDowell) p122 Jennebauffe, Oscar p100 Gilbert, Philemon Joseph p110 Hainaut, Mary (McMillen) p122 Jenning, Jane p99 Gilboux, Alice p115 Hainaut, William J p122 Jeunehomme, Marie p114 Gilboux, Constan p115 Hameryck, Odile p125 Jolissaint, Albert p117 Gilboux, Josephine p115 Helaers, Frank p110 Jolissaint, Rosa p117 132

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Jollissaint, Josephine p117 Moresty, Florence p117 Pletincks, David A p122 Joly, Marie-Therese p100 Mormont, August p116 Pletincks, Isabel R p122 Jolyn, Camille p101 Mormont, Bernard p116 Pletincks, John R p122 Kara, Bertha p123 Mormont, Charles p115 Porignaux, Alexander p127 Kara, John p123 Mormont, Edward p115 Purdy? C? p124 Kinson, Henry p113 Mormont, Emma p115 Purdy? Catharine p124 Koekhuyt, Joseph p125 Mormont, Frank p116 Quinet, James Albert p121 Lack, Aurela H p115 Mormont, John p116 Radelet, Marie Anne p113 Lack, Henry p115 Mormont, Minnie p115 Radlet, Charles E p124 Lambert, August p127 Morrison, Harry p123 Radlet, Ernie p124 Landurt, August p128 Mouchart, Fernand p101 Radlet, Harold A p124 Lannoy, Pierre p128 Mouchart, Louis p101 Radlet, Leon p124 LaViolette, Fred G p102 Mullaert, Euphrasie p127 Radlet, Louise p124 Leboutte, Rene p92 Murdock Hainaut, Janet p122 Radlet, Myrtle R p124 Leduc, Philippe p100 Musin, Batiste p115 Radlet, Nellie p124 Legeune, Constant p115 Musin, Celina p115 Radlet, Nellie M p124 Lemaitre, Marie p100 Musin, Charles p115 Radlet, Octave p124 Letta, Lewis p115 Musin, Ledonge p115 Radlet, Violet p124 Leurlenn, Ciriel p124 Naze, Lucy p107 Renson, Celestin p100 Lewis, Thomas p121 Niederkohr, Catharine p97 Renson, Felix p100 Liessen, Matt p128 Noel, Marie Anne p96 Renson, Justine p100 Lieve, Josse p128 Noy, H? p127 Risport, Francis J p117 Lochrie, Janet p126 Ole*, Edmond p115 Risport, John B p117 Lucas, Desiree p100 Ole*, Ferdinand p115 Risport, John I p117 Lucas, Eugene p127 Ole*, Frank p115 Risport, Mary I p117 Lumbricks, Joseph p115 Ole*, Hary p115 Rousseau, Emile p101 Lumbricks, Katy p115 Ole*, Louis p115 Rousseau, Emilie p101 Lumbricks, Mary p115 Ole*, Margret p115 Rousseau, Leontine p101 Machek, John p122 Ole*, Prudence p115 Rousseaux, Florence or Florine p122 Maitte, Fernand p100 Ongena, Kenneth p126 Ryckebaer, Jozef p124 Maitte, Jean p100 Ongena, Maurice p126 Saladin, Eugene p115 Majois, Edmond p100 Overbegge, Peat p115 Saladin, Joseph p115 Majois, Pierre p100 Palocz, August Stephen p126 Saladin, Juste p115 Mandoy, John p123 Pannekouck, Alfred p128 Saladin, Louisean p115 Mandoy, Julia p123 Pannekouck, Arthur p128 Sappie, Albert M p122 Marnette, Gaspard p92 Pannekouck, Aug p127 Scharf, Adolphe p117 Marshall, Nicholas R p113 Pannekouck, August p127 Scharf, Charles p117 Martens, Henri p127 Pannekouck, Fernande p127 Scharf, Delphia p117 Masquelier Sappie, Eva p122 Pannekouck, Jean p128 Scharf, Frank p117 Massart, Louise p107 Pannekouck, Jeanne p128 Scharf, Lewis p117 Matten, Florence p101 Pannekouck, Julien p127 Scharf, Mary p117 Mattys, Emma p116 Pannekouck, Marin p128 Schleise, Marga p127 Mattys, Henry p116 Pannekouck, Onora p128 Schreiber, Anne Catherine p96 Mattys, Jacob p116 Perrin, Amedee p101 Schreiber, Nicholas p96 Mattys, John p116 Peters, Andre p97 Schwahn, Charles p123 Menus, Marie Rosalie p97 Pethe, Andrew p97 Schwahn, Henry p123 Mertsdagh, Agustus p124 Pethe, Anna p96 Schwahn, Lily p123 Mets, Louis M p128 Pethe, Margaret p97 Schwahn, Vannerck p123 Michaux, J Bt p129 Phillips, Marie Jeanne p126 Sculier, Leon p100 Michaux, Jos p129 Pierret, Jules p127 Servais, Eugene p127 Mindek, Connie p122 Pierret, Marie p128 Shrader, Adrian p116 Minet, Emilie p101 Piette, Marie p101 Shrader, Clara p116 Minet, Julien p101 Pilette, Marie p100 Shrader, Florence I p116 Moens, Henry p115 Platteel, Leonie p101 Shrader, John W p116 Molhan, Felicien p127 Plegter?, Cornelius p127 Shrader, Mary p116 Molhan, Isidore p127 Pletincks, Adolph p121 Shrader, Oneta p116 Mollet, Emile p129 Pletincks, Albert p122 Slock, Monica p128 133

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Slock, Theophile p128 Thevenot, Josaphine p117 Vanlaere, Alfonso p115 Small, Gustavia p100 Thevenot, Lawrence p117 Vanlaere, Amiel p115 Smith, Catherine p99 Thevenot, Mary F p117 Vanlaere, Augustus p115 Smith, John p99 Thiry, Jean Joseph p113 Vanlaere, Elizabeth p115 Sonnaert, Ernest p100 Thiry, Marie Catherine p113 Vanlaere, Emma p115 Sonnaert, Laure p100 Thys, Franz p127 Vanlaere, Jacob p115 Sonnaert, Lea p100 Tricot, Gaston p100 Vanlaere, Piett p115 Sonnaert, Lucienne p100 Tricot, Marie p100 Vanlaere, Prudence p115 Sorenson, Erasmus p123 Tricot, Theodule p100 Vannezner, Raymond p124 Sorenson, Leocadie p123 Trognee, Elvire p100 Varlette, Adele p101 Sosson, Marie Madeleine p98 Ulmer, Miss Marg p127 Verkleren, Alfred p127 Souply, Donna Ray (Burns) p122 Ulmer, Mr. Robert p127 Vermeulen, Gustaf p124 Souply, Isabelle (Johnson) p122 Van Aiston?, John p124 Vermonde, Alina p128 Souply, Louis p122 Van Aiston?, Ugene p124 Vermonde, Arthur p128 Souply, Margaret p122 Van Gausbecke, Marie p129 Vermonde, Merchel p128 Souply, Ronald p122 Van Lieberghe, Leonie p128 Vermonde, Rachel p128 Souply, Seraphin p122 Van Thoed, Alphe p128 Verplacke, Louise p128 Souply, Ulysses J p122 Van Thoed, Josephine p128 Vincent, Francis C p121 Sourdry, Amadee L p116 Vanbiesbrouck, Adela Maria (Koehuyt) Wagner, Michael p94 Sourdry, Amedee p117 p125 Wagoner, Mary p95 Sourdry, Augustine V p116 Vanbiesbrouck, Joseph p125 Walters, Albert p117 Sourdry, Mamie p116 Vanderhaegen, Octavie p101 Walters, Catherine p116 Sourdry, Victor J p116 VanderHeyden, Bar p128 Walters, Charles p117 Sourdry, Victoria p117 VanderHeyden, Catha p128 Walters, Florence I p116 Sperktha, Lee p124 VanderHeyden, Maria p128 Walters, John p116 Star, Honore p124 Vanderkelen, Gustave p101 Warnant, Alfred p101 Sulon, Guillaume p93 Vanderkelen, Henri p101 Warnant, Eugene p101 Surmont, George p115 Vanderkelen, Maurice p101 Wautlet. Emil p107 Surmont, Henriette p115 VandeVelden, Edmond p127 Wers, Lebutine p101 Surmont, Joseph p115 VandeVelden, Fried p127 Whiteman, Clarence p116 Surmont, Josephine p115 VandeVelden, Gustav p127 Whiteman, Marshall F p116 Surmont, Jule p115 VandeVelden, Jeanne p127 Whiteman, Raymond p116 Surmont, Laona p115 VandeVelden, Philipine p127 Whiteman, Rosa L p116 Surmont, Louise p115 Vangyzel, August p127 Whiteman, Walter p116 Taconnet, Evrard p127 Vangyzel, Erena p127 Willem, Jean p100 Termond, Theophil p128 Vangyzel, Leonard p127 Thevenot, Harry p117 Vangyzel, Marie p127

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