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Surnames: DROUILLARD CHAUVIN SHAVA
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oUI.2ACEB/130
Message Board Post:
Rhia Drouillard and I are still trying to find out more about the family
of Archange "Eliza" CHAUVIN, probably born in Monroe County Michigan,
but lived in Bayfield Wisconsin when her husband died in 1873.
We have their 1850 census together in Monroe County Michigan,
with 1 year old son JOHN.
Posting more about them on my webpage here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/NelsonObit.htm
NELSON DROUILLARD OBITUARY, BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN, 1873.
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Source: The Ashland Press, 22 Nov. 1873
Obituary:
Died: At his residence in Bayfield, Wis., November 11th, 1873,
Nelson Drouillard, aged 56 years.
Once more this community has been called upon to assume the habiliments of mourning.
Another family mourns the loss of a kind husband and parent.
The subject of this notice was born at Monroe, Mich., May 8th, 1817,
where at the age of 25 years he married Miss Eliza Shava, who survives him.
Owing to impaired health, in 1848 he accepted the appointment as government Blacksmith to the grand Portage Indians on the North Shore of Lake Superior, (the services being light,) which position he retained for six years, when he removed with his family to this place, and was soon after appointed blacksmith for the Red Cliff band of Chippewas.
In 1864 he was transferred to the Bad
River Reservation, where he remained until the fall of 1867,
when he removed back to Bayfield,
resuming his former position, which he retained until his death.
During his residence here he has filled the position of both Deputy Sheriff
and Sheriff of Bayfield county with much credit, and has at all times taken
a lively interest in the welfare of the place.
He was a prominent and consistent member of the Catholic Church,
denouncing as well the inconsistent acts of its members as of those of other sects.
During his last illness of seven weeks duration he received
little encouragement from his attending physicians, and though
his sufferings were at times intense,
not a murmuring word passed his lips,
his chief regret being that he could not leave those dependent upon him
better provided for.
He leaves a wife and eight children of whom the eldest son only is married.
A crowded house at his funeral service composed of all classes of this
community, evinced not only the number of his personal friends,
but also assured the family that the whole community showed their grief.
It is thought that an injury received in his right side, while shoeing a
horse in 1867-8, was the prime cause of his death, as from that time he often complained of
severe pain in that locality.
The family desire to express their gratitude to the many residents of
Bayfield and Ashland for their kind services and sympathy in this their
hour of sorrow.
Thus "one by one we cross the river."
Bayfield, Wis., Nov. 13th, 1873.
It is time for a Roll Call - let's try to find some cousins and ancestors!
Please send a post TO THE LIST (not to me) about your ancestors with this
surname. Remember to include all the information you have available about
when and where they lived. Maybe other members of this list can help you -
and maybe you will find some new cousins!
Your listowner,
Carol C-H <cch(a)netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/