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Posting this to the CHEVERIE list also.
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FROM: "Brian Millsap" <bmillsaptm(a)tmo.blackberry.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:32:08
To:Roots-l@rootsweb.com
Subject: Michael CHEVERIE abt 1857-1936
I am sending this in hopes that someone can help break one of my great brick walls.
My gggrandfather Michael CHEVERIE died 18 Sep 1936 in Lake County, Indiana. He had lived most of his adult life in Chicago, but his previous life and family are a mystery. He married Elizabeth DERICHS (another brick wall which I may address in a separate posting) in Chicago in 1883. I don't know how soon before this he came to Chicago. They only had one child, Kathryne, b. 1885 d. 1921 who married Arthur BIESEN in 1905. When Michael died, no one left in the area knew his family so his parent info is blank on his death certificate.
Michael reports himself as being born in Massachusetts on census records, but the family believed he was born on PEI. In fact, Kathryne always reports her father as being born on PEI. A search of Mass. birth records for 1850-1865 came up empty. My guess is he was born on PEI. His birth date is also a mystery, as there are significant differences between census records, marriage license, and death records. The 1883 marriage license says he's 26 and I believe this is close to the right answer, meaning he's born around 1857. The family knows he traveled to PEI to visit family, so minimally he had relatives there. He reports on census records that his parents were born in France.
I have been unable to find him on any 19th century census, or the 1881 Canadian census, so I have no idea of his whereabouts at any time before 1883. My belief is that he came to Chicago alone as an adult.
No remaining relatives ever knew anything about his family. I have been unable to find anything to tie him into the PEI Cheveries, but I am certain he is related somehow.
The only story I ever heard about his family is that he supposedly had a sister that married, moved to San Francisco, and was a victim of the 1906 earthquake/fire. I have no idea if that's true, but maybe at least there was in fact a sister in San Francisco.
I'm hoping to get lucky and find someone who might have a connection to place Michael in the right CHEVERIE family. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it.
Brian Millsap
bmillsap(a)sprynet.com
Brian Millsap
bmillsap(a)sprynet.com