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Michel Merrille Chauvin

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Michel Merrille Chauvin

Birth
Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
13 Jul 1916 (aged 50)
Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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The New Orleans Daily States
July 15, 1916 pg 2

GUEYDAN, lA. - Merile Chauvin, 53, of this place, was accidentally killed at the Klondyke plantation pumping plant, six miles west of here, early Thursday. Chauvin was doing some carpentering work at the plant which was in operation and when stepping over the main shaft, a setscrew caught his trouser leg just about the ankle drawing him into the machinery and breaking nearly every bone in his body. He lived only two hours.

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Married Rosa Lea Falgout 19 January 1887.
Children: Mary Beulah, Valerie Orphise, Serge Marcel (Sidney), Joseph Nolan, Ledie Marie, John Washington, Jeanne, Vivian, Ola Mae, Henry Paul, Virginia Leah and Clifford Rex.

Merrille was a carpenter and he was helping to lay out the town of Mulvey in south Louisiana. According to his son, Merile was running some kind of machinery which had a belt and his pant leg got caught and he was pulled into the contraption crushing him.

Variation of middle name: Merile, Merrill
The New Orleans Daily States
July 15, 1916 pg 2

GUEYDAN, lA. - Merile Chauvin, 53, of this place, was accidentally killed at the Klondyke plantation pumping plant, six miles west of here, early Thursday. Chauvin was doing some carpentering work at the plant which was in operation and when stepping over the main shaft, a setscrew caught his trouser leg just about the ankle drawing him into the machinery and breaking nearly every bone in his body. He lived only two hours.

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Married Rosa Lea Falgout 19 January 1887.
Children: Mary Beulah, Valerie Orphise, Serge Marcel (Sidney), Joseph Nolan, Ledie Marie, John Washington, Jeanne, Vivian, Ola Mae, Henry Paul, Virginia Leah and Clifford Rex.

Merrille was a carpenter and he was helping to lay out the town of Mulvey in south Louisiana. According to his son, Merile was running some kind of machinery which had a belt and his pant leg got caught and he was pulled into the contraption crushing him.

Variation of middle name: Merile, Merrill

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