Bernard Anthony LEMAY

Other Events and Attributes:

• Washington Death Certificate: 8319

Notes:

Lived at home and worked in the shipyards in the 1920 census.

Lived with his father in Seattle in 1942.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Washington Death Certificate: 6157

Notes:

Other sources have his death 13 Feb 1939 in Seattle.

In the 1910 census, the family was in Akeley Twp, Hubbard County. Alfred worked in a saw mill.

In the 1920 census, the family lived in Seattle, King County, Washington. Alfred was a millwright for a saw mill.

He and Mary and Bernadette were still in Seattle in the 1930 census. Fred was a millwright for a lumber mill.

Alfred registered for the World War II draft in 1942. At that time, he lived at 704 19th Avenue in Seattle. He worked for the Elliot Bay Mill Company of Seattle. He gave has the “person who will always know your address” his son, Anthony B. LeMay of Seattle.

Alfred married Mary Blanche MOUSSEAU on 27 Jun 1900 in Red Lake County, Minnesota. Mary (daughter of Anthony D MOUSSEAU and Philomene PEPIN) was born on 9 Apr 1874 in Minnesota; died on 13 Feb 1939 in Seattle, King County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Single and living with her parents in River Falls Twp, Red Lake County, in the 1900 census. No occupation.

In the 1910 census, she had 4 children, all still living.

Notes:

Or born 25 apr 1840.

Called Antoine in the 1850 census.

The family lived in St. Anthony at the time of the 1870 census. Anthony Mouso (erroneously indexed as Morriss), reported as born in Minnesota, was a lumberman.

The family lived at 821 2nd St. N.E. in Minneapolis in the 1880 census. Anthony (”A.D.”) was a foreman at a saw mill. In that census, Anthony was reported to have been born in Minnesota and his parents in Canada (father) and Switzerland (mother). Also living with the family in 1880 was Philomene’s sister Annorine Pepin, 19 years old, born in Minnesota.

In the 1900 census, Anthony has moved his family to St. Hilaire Village, River Falls Twp, Red Lake County (now Pennington County), where he is a millwright for a saw mill.

In the 1905 state census, he and his family live in Akeley Twp, Hubbard County, Minnesota. Anthony is a lumber inspector.

One source says he died in Akeley in 1907 and was buried in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Minneapolis. Other sources say he died in Anoka or Anoka County on 28 May 1907. There is no record of his death, at those locations or any other, in the MHS death index.

Birth:
A GenForum poster gave the birthdate as 25 April.

Died:
According to Robin, Anthony’s cause of death was blood poisoning due to loss of leg while working for the railroad.

Anthony married Philomene PEPIN. Philomene was born on 10 Jul 1847 in Maine; died on 3 Nov 1936 in Seattle, King County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1880 and 1900 censuses, she and her parents were reported to have been born in Canada.

In the 1900 census, she is shown as having had 11 children, all 11 still living.

She is a widow running a boarding house and living in Akeley Twp, Hubbard County, Minnesota, in the 1910 census. She had had 18 children, only 6 still living! (It seems quite unlikely that between the ages of 53 and 63 she would have had 7 children. The 18 and 6 numbers seem more like they’re for Philomene’s mother-in-law.) Living with her at the time of the 1910 census were Wallace, Hiram, and Stella. The two boys work in a sawmill.

In the 1920 census, she lives with her now-married daughter Stella in Ada County, Idaho.

Not in the 1930 census.

According to Robin, “Our mother (Bernice) tells us there was a total of 22 children born to Anthony and Philomene - several sets of twins. Anthony worked for the railroad and his wife and children resided and worked the family farm. Anthony would return home annually.”

Notes:

Also known as Charles Mosseaux Mousseau.

From “Kim” on the internet: “Charles arrived from Montreal at age 21 working for the Hudson Bay Company. Arrived at Fort Snelling in 1827. Helped build the fort and stayed seven years. Married Fannie Perry in 1835. They settled in Mendota in a home furnished them by General Sibley. Children: Henry 1836, David 1838, Anthony 1841, Mary 1843, Paul 1856, Sophia 1858, Mitchell 1845, Ellen 1851, Bernard 1854, Minnie 1862.”

Another poster says that Charles is cited in "Pig's Eye's Notepad: A Historical Encyclopedia of St Paul, MN." That citation is:

MOUSSEAU, CHARLES - Born in 1807 in Canada, he came to Minnesota in 1827 as a voyageur with the American Fur Company. In 1827, he was married at Fort Snelling to Fanny Perry, and in the fall of 1838, he staked a claim on Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul. In 1848, he sold that claim to Eben Weld, and moved to Hennepin County where he resided until his death. Charles and Fanny had 12 children, among them: Charles (1834), Henri (1836), David (1838), Antoine (1840), Michel (1846), Marie Anne (1842), Sophie (1848), and Bernard (1854).

Phil says that Charles was one of some 50 retired voyageurs who traveled to Minnesota from Canada.

Marie Mousseau-Hendrickson cites an 1896 newspaper article that says that the Mousseaus were the first white people to settle on the site of Minneapolis and that the Mousseaus assisted in the construction of the Stevens House, now in Minnehaha Park. Charles lived in Mendota, Lake Calhoun area, St. Anthony, St. Paul, and Minneapolis.

One internet poster believes that Charles was the son of Joseph who was the son of Jacques.

In the 1830 census, there is a head of family named Charles Mousseau living in Michilimackinac County, Michigan Territory. At that time, Michigan Territory included what is now the north side of the Mississippi River in what was to become the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

In the 1840 census, the area Charles lives in is still part of Iowa Territory. Officially, it’s in the St. Peter’s precinct of Clayton County, Iowa Territory. The census is only a listing of the heads of household with tallies for the ages of the various members of the household. Charles’s household has 3 male children under 5 years old, 1 male in his 30s, 1 male in his 60s, 1 female under 5, 1 female between 10 and 14, and two women in their 20s. This suggests that Charles’s father, and some of Charles’s siblings, may have accompanied him from Canada.

In the 1850 census, Charles is a lumberman, living with his family in Saint Anthony, Ramsey County, Minnesota Territory.

The family lived on a farm in the 2nd ward of Minneapolis in the 1860 census.

The family was still living in the 2nd ward in the 1870 census. Charles is now a house painter. Sons Henry and David live in adjoining households to Charles and Fannie.

In the 1880 census, Charles lives with his daughter Sophie Bourdeaux and her family.

Birth:
per Ancestry.com family tree posting

Charles married Fanny PERRY on 3 Feb 1835 in Fort Snelling, Michigan Territory. Fanny (daughter of Abraham PERRY and Mary Ann BOURQUIN) was born on 14 Nov 1818 in Lausanne, Switzerland; died on 10 Apr 1878 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She may have been Frances. Also known as Rose.