Louis Campau 1767-1834 married Therese Moran 1770-1864 and they had 10 children together.
Theotiste Cecile 1790-1832
Louis 1791-1871
Mary Ann 1794-1885
Antoine (Anthony) - 1797-1874
James - 1799-1839
Apolonia - 1801-1888
George - 1802-1879
Eleanor - 1804-1849
Toussaint - 1811-1872
Four of the boys came to Grand Rapids because Louis established a trading post and built a house here. Toussaint, George and Antoine came to also work as traders with the Indians and bought large tracts of land. After Louis' first wife Anna died, he married Sohpie Marsac and brought her from Detroit to Grand Rapids. She only spoke French, so she invited her sister Emily to come keep her company, and Emily fell in love with Toussaint and married him.
After his father Louis died, Louis Jr. must have moved his mother Therese here from Detroit because she lived to be age 94 and is living with him and his wife Sophia on the 1850 and 1860 census.
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Tombstone inscription:
Louis Campau
born Aug. 11, 1791
died April 13, 1871
The founder of the original village in 1826,
Now city of Grand Rapids.
The last two lines were obliterated by time, when time or vandals knocked the tablet over, the cemetery caretaker fastened it more securely on a rebuilt base cutting off the end of the inscription.
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Theotiste Cecile 1790-1832
Louis 1791-1871
Mary Ann 1794-1885
Antoine (Anthony) - 1797-1874
James - 1799-1839
Apolonia - 1801-1888
George - 1802-1879
Eleanor - 1804-1849
Toussaint - 1811-1872
Four of the boys came to Grand Rapids because Louis established a trading post and built a house here. Toussaint, George and Antoine came to also work as traders with the Indians and bought large tracts of land. After Louis' first wife Anna died, he married Sohpie Marsac and brought her from Detroit to Grand Rapids. She only spoke French, so she invited her sister Emily to come keep her company, and Emily fell in love with Toussaint and married him.
After his father Louis died, Louis Jr. must have moved his mother Therese here from Detroit because she lived to be age 94 and is living with him and his wife Sophia on the 1850 and 1860 census.
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Tombstone inscription:
Louis Campau
born Aug. 11, 1791
died April 13, 1871
The founder of the original village in 1826,
Now city of Grand Rapids.
The last two lines were obliterated by time, when time or vandals knocked the tablet over, the cemetery caretaker fastened it more securely on a rebuilt base cutting off the end of the inscription.
.
Louis Campau 1767-1834 married Therese Moran 1770-1864 and they had 10 children together.
Theotiste Cecile 1790-1832
Louis 1791-1871
Mary Ann 1794-1885
Antoine (Anthony) - 1797-1874
James - 1799-1839
Apolonia - 1801-1888
George - 1802-1879
Eleanor - 1804-1849
Toussaint - 1811-1872
Four of the boys came to Grand Rapids because Louis established a trading post and built a house here. Toussaint, George and Antoine came to also work as traders with the Indians and bought large tracts of land. After Louis' first wife Anna died, he married Sohpie Marsac and brought her from Detroit to Grand Rapids. She only spoke French, so she invited her sister Emily to come keep her company, and Emily fell in love with Toussaint and married him.
After his father Louis died, Louis Jr. must have moved his mother Therese here from Detroit because she lived to be age 94 and is living with him and his wife Sophia on the 1850 and 1860 census.
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Tombstone inscription:
Louis Campau
born Aug. 11, 1791
died April 13, 1871
The founder of the original village in 1826,
Now city of Grand Rapids.
The last two lines were obliterated by time, when time or vandals knocked the tablet over, the cemetery caretaker fastened it more securely on a rebuilt base cutting off the end of the inscription.
.
Theotiste Cecile 1790-1832
Louis 1791-1871
Mary Ann 1794-1885
Antoine (Anthony) - 1797-1874
James - 1799-1839
Apolonia - 1801-1888
George - 1802-1879
Eleanor - 1804-1849
Toussaint - 1811-1872
Four of the boys came to Grand Rapids because Louis established a trading post and built a house here. Toussaint, George and Antoine came to also work as traders with the Indians and bought large tracts of land. After Louis' first wife Anna died, he married Sohpie Marsac and brought her from Detroit to Grand Rapids. She only spoke French, so she invited her sister Emily to come keep her company, and Emily fell in love with Toussaint and married him.
After his father Louis died, Louis Jr. must have moved his mother Therese here from Detroit because she lived to be age 94 and is living with him and his wife Sophia on the 1850 and 1860 census.
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Tombstone inscription:
Louis Campau
born Aug. 11, 1791
died April 13, 1871
The founder of the original village in 1826,
Now city of Grand Rapids.
The last two lines were obliterated by time, when time or vandals knocked the tablet over, the cemetery caretaker fastened it more securely on a rebuilt base cutting off the end of the inscription.
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