Napoléon Dubé, the youngest son of Léandré and Adélaïde Dubé, was born in Hamlin, Maine — a very small village on the U.S.-Canadian border, about ten miles south of Van Buren. Some sources refer to him as 'Léandré Napo- léon', which appears to be a perpetuated er- ror. He did, however, have an elder brother named Léandré, which may be the source of this confusion.
Napoléon's life story is both interesting and somewhat out of the ordinary — right from childhood. Born in 1868, he was only fifteen-months-old when his father passed away at age fifty-two; and in 1870, his mother died
at age thirty-nine. The ten Dubé siblings, or- phans all, were taken in by various relatives and friends; and Napoléon was sent to live on a farm in French Canada — at the home of his godmother, Julie (Cyr) Cormier. It appears that Julie had either a close friendship or a cousin- hood connection with the Dubé family — as when the census was enumerated in 1871, three-year-old Napoléon was living on the Cormier farm in St-Léonard-Parent — along with his aged grandmother, Théotiste Lebel.
By 1881, Napoléon's grandmother had passed away (as well as Julie Cormier's husband, Fir- min); but the young teenager was still living on the farm in St-Léonard. According to the story later told by his wife, Anna, Napoléon left home when he was around fourteen (a year or so after the '81 census) to travel and explore the country. Legend has it that, in time, Napoléon managed to visit forty-seven of the forty-eight states, working a variety of jobs along the way — as a farmhand, a coal miner, a lumberjack, or whatever he had to do to earn a living. It's also said that when he eventually reached the west coast, he pros- pected for gold in California — and that he was one of the thousands who headed north in the 1890s during the Alaskan gold rush.
By the turn of the century, Napoléon had set- tled in Cedar Township, Montana, where ac- cording to the census he was employed as a lumberman. He had also, by then, anglicized his name to 'Paul Dubey'. Still single at that time, Paul would soon cross paths with a gal from England, fall in love, and marry.
According to the records in Shoshone County, Idaho, 'Paul Dubey' tied the knot with 'Susie' (Dray) Voorhies in the spring of 1903 in Wal- lace, Idaho. Research indicates that Susie was then in her late thirties, a woman with five children whose husband was in prison for stealing cattle. She apparently divorced him to marry Paul; and on February 7, 1904, she gave birth to a son who was named Harry.
For whatever reason, the Dubey marriage was short-lived; and the couple divorced sometime before 1910, as confirmed by that year's cen- sus records. Paul, then forty-two years old, was living alone in Mullan, Idaho, working in a local mill; Susie and their son 'Harry Dubey' were boarding at the Hillside Hotel in Monte- sano, Washington — where she was employed as a dressmaker. By summertime, Susie and Harry had moved to Montana where she re- married her first husband — who apparently adopted the young boy and changed his name to 'Harry Voorhies'; and by the close of the decade, Paul had returned to his roots in St- Léonard-Parent.
Back on familiar French turf, 'Paul Dubey' once again became 'Napoléon Dubé' (though in the 1921 census he was enumerated as 'Paul'). In 1919 at age fifty-one, he fell in love for the second time — with a local girl named Anna Soucy. Though she was thirty-two years his junior (!), he asked for her hand in marriage; and on May 5, the two were wed. It was a coincidental and ironic union that would en- dure to the end. For further details, see Anna Soucy's story here at Find-A-Grave.
Napoléon 'Paul' Dubé passed away in 1935 at age 67 in St-Léonard-Parent — less than two weeks after the birth of his last child. He and Anna had been married for sixteen years; and together they had had eleven children. Cause of death, according to the official certificate, was stomach cancer; and he was buried in the parish cemetery in Saint-Léonard-Parent. May he rest in peace.
NAPOLÉON DUBÉ's FAMILY
His Wife:
Anna M. (Soucy) Dubé 1900-1995 [age 95]
married May 5, 1919
St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, N.B., Canada
Note:
Napoléon had been previously married to
Susannah 'Susie' (Dray) [Voorhies] Dubé
1864-1952
married on April 15, 1903, in Wallace, Idaho
> Napoléon and Susie divorced between 1904 and 1910; and in 1910, she remarried her first husband (Charles Voorhies).
Napoléon & Anna's 11 Children:
· Joseph S. 'Joël' Dubé 1920-2015 [age 94]
· Jean-Paul Dubé 1921-1998 [age 76]
· Fidèle E. Dubé 1923-1982 [age 59]
· Patrick A. Dubé 1925-1995 [age 70]
· Régina L. (Dubé) Croteau
1926-2000 [age 73]
· Lucille A. (Dubé) [Croteau] Tibbetts
1927-1968 [age 40]
· Yvette T. (Dubé) Croteau
1929-2009 [age 79]
· Gérard L. Dubé 1930-1951 [age 20]
· Robert Dubé 1932-1932 [age 6 months]
· Clermont Dubé 1934-1935 [age 8 months]
· Roméo Dubé
Note:
Napoléon's son, with his first wife, was
Harry J. [Dubé] Voorhies 1904-1972 [age 67]
His Parents:
Léandré É. 'André' Dubé 1816-1869 [age 52]
and
Adélaïde M. (Lebel) Dubé 1830-1870 [age 39]
married July 28, 1851
St. Bruno
Van Buren, Maine
His Grandparents:
· Nicolas and Marie-Reine (Lévêque) Dubé
and
· Augustin and Théotiste (Lebel) Lebel
Note:
All four of Napoléon's grandparents hailed from Kamouraska County in the Province of Québec
CEMETERY INFORMATION:
Type of Marker: Headstone (monument)
Napoléon's life story is both interesting and somewhat out of the ordinary — right from childhood. Born in 1868, he was only fifteen-months-old when his father passed away at age fifty-two; and in 1870, his mother died
at age thirty-nine. The ten Dubé siblings, or- phans all, were taken in by various relatives and friends; and Napoléon was sent to live on a farm in French Canada — at the home of his godmother, Julie (Cyr) Cormier. It appears that Julie had either a close friendship or a cousin- hood connection with the Dubé family — as when the census was enumerated in 1871, three-year-old Napoléon was living on the Cormier farm in St-Léonard-Parent — along with his aged grandmother, Théotiste Lebel.
By 1881, Napoléon's grandmother had passed away (as well as Julie Cormier's husband, Fir- min); but the young teenager was still living on the farm in St-Léonard. According to the story later told by his wife, Anna, Napoléon left home when he was around fourteen (a year or so after the '81 census) to travel and explore the country. Legend has it that, in time, Napoléon managed to visit forty-seven of the forty-eight states, working a variety of jobs along the way — as a farmhand, a coal miner, a lumberjack, or whatever he had to do to earn a living. It's also said that when he eventually reached the west coast, he pros- pected for gold in California — and that he was one of the thousands who headed north in the 1890s during the Alaskan gold rush.
By the turn of the century, Napoléon had set- tled in Cedar Township, Montana, where ac- cording to the census he was employed as a lumberman. He had also, by then, anglicized his name to 'Paul Dubey'. Still single at that time, Paul would soon cross paths with a gal from England, fall in love, and marry.
According to the records in Shoshone County, Idaho, 'Paul Dubey' tied the knot with 'Susie' (Dray) Voorhies in the spring of 1903 in Wal- lace, Idaho. Research indicates that Susie was then in her late thirties, a woman with five children whose husband was in prison for stealing cattle. She apparently divorced him to marry Paul; and on February 7, 1904, she gave birth to a son who was named Harry.
For whatever reason, the Dubey marriage was short-lived; and the couple divorced sometime before 1910, as confirmed by that year's cen- sus records. Paul, then forty-two years old, was living alone in Mullan, Idaho, working in a local mill; Susie and their son 'Harry Dubey' were boarding at the Hillside Hotel in Monte- sano, Washington — where she was employed as a dressmaker. By summertime, Susie and Harry had moved to Montana where she re- married her first husband — who apparently adopted the young boy and changed his name to 'Harry Voorhies'; and by the close of the decade, Paul had returned to his roots in St- Léonard-Parent.
Back on familiar French turf, 'Paul Dubey' once again became 'Napoléon Dubé' (though in the 1921 census he was enumerated as 'Paul'). In 1919 at age fifty-one, he fell in love for the second time — with a local girl named Anna Soucy. Though she was thirty-two years his junior (!), he asked for her hand in marriage; and on May 5, the two were wed. It was a coincidental and ironic union that would en- dure to the end. For further details, see Anna Soucy's story here at Find-A-Grave.
Napoléon 'Paul' Dubé passed away in 1935 at age 67 in St-Léonard-Parent — less than two weeks after the birth of his last child. He and Anna had been married for sixteen years; and together they had had eleven children. Cause of death, according to the official certificate, was stomach cancer; and he was buried in the parish cemetery in Saint-Léonard-Parent. May he rest in peace.
NAPOLÉON DUBÉ's FAMILY
His Wife:
Anna M. (Soucy) Dubé 1900-1995 [age 95]
married May 5, 1919
St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, N.B., Canada
Note:
Napoléon had been previously married to
Susannah 'Susie' (Dray) [Voorhies] Dubé
1864-1952
married on April 15, 1903, in Wallace, Idaho
> Napoléon and Susie divorced between 1904 and 1910; and in 1910, she remarried her first husband (Charles Voorhies).
Napoléon & Anna's 11 Children:
· Joseph S. 'Joël' Dubé 1920-2015 [age 94]
· Jean-Paul Dubé 1921-1998 [age 76]
· Fidèle E. Dubé 1923-1982 [age 59]
· Patrick A. Dubé 1925-1995 [age 70]
· Régina L. (Dubé) Croteau
1926-2000 [age 73]
· Lucille A. (Dubé) [Croteau] Tibbetts
1927-1968 [age 40]
· Yvette T. (Dubé) Croteau
1929-2009 [age 79]
· Gérard L. Dubé 1930-1951 [age 20]
· Robert Dubé 1932-1932 [age 6 months]
· Clermont Dubé 1934-1935 [age 8 months]
· Roméo Dubé
Note:
Napoléon's son, with his first wife, was
Harry J. [Dubé] Voorhies 1904-1972 [age 67]
His Parents:
Léandré É. 'André' Dubé 1816-1869 [age 52]
and
Adélaïde M. (Lebel) Dubé 1830-1870 [age 39]
married July 28, 1851
St. Bruno
Van Buren, Maine
His Grandparents:
· Nicolas and Marie-Reine (Lévêque) Dubé
and
· Augustin and Théotiste (Lebel) Lebel
Note:
All four of Napoléon's grandparents hailed from Kamouraska County in the Province of Québec
CEMETERY INFORMATION:
Type of Marker: Headstone (monument)
Napoléon Dubé, the youngest son of Léandré and Adélaïde Dubé, was born in Hamlin, Maine — a very small village on the U.S.-Canadian border, about ten miles south of Van Buren. Some sources refer to him as 'Léandré Napo- léon', which appears to be a perpetuated er- ror. He did, however, have an elder brother named Léandré, which may be the source of this confusion.
Napoléon's life story is both interesting and somewhat out of the ordinary — right from childhood. Born in 1868, he was only fifteen-months-old when his father passed away at age fifty-two; and in 1870, his mother died
at age thirty-nine. The ten Dubé siblings, or- phans all, were taken in by various relatives and friends; and Napoléon was sent to live on a farm in French Canada — at the home of his godmother, Julie (Cyr) Cormier. It appears that Julie had either a close friendship or a cousin- hood connection with the Dubé family — as when the census was enumerated in 1871, three-year-old Napoléon was living on the Cormier farm in St-Léonard-Parent — along with his aged grandmother, Théotiste Lebel.
By 1881, Napoléon's grandmother had passed away (as well as Julie Cormier's husband, Fir- min); but the young teenager was still living on the farm in St-Léonard. According to the story later told by his wife, Anna, Napoléon left home when he was around fourteen (a year or so after the '81 census) to travel and explore the country. Legend has it that, in time, Napoléon managed to visit forty-seven of the forty-eight states, working a variety of jobs along the way — as a farmhand, a coal miner, a lumberjack, or whatever he had to do to earn a living. It's also said that when he eventually reached the west coast, he pros- pected for gold in California — and that he was one of the thousands who headed north in the 1890s during the Alaskan gold rush.
By the turn of the century, Napoléon had set- tled in Cedar Township, Montana, where ac- cording to the census he was employed as a lumberman. He had also, by then, anglicized his name to 'Paul Dubey'. Still single at that time, Paul would soon cross paths with a gal from England, fall in love, and marry.
According to the records in Shoshone County, Idaho, 'Paul Dubey' tied the knot with 'Susie' (Dray) Voorhies in the spring of 1903 in Wal- lace, Idaho. Research indicates that Susie was then in her late thirties, a woman with five children whose husband was in prison for stealing cattle. She apparently divorced him to marry Paul; and on February 7, 1904, she gave birth to a son who was named Harry.
For whatever reason, the Dubey marriage was short-lived; and the couple divorced sometime before 1910, as confirmed by that year's cen- sus records. Paul, then forty-two years old, was living alone in Mullan, Idaho, working in a local mill; Susie and their son 'Harry Dubey' were boarding at the Hillside Hotel in Monte- sano, Washington — where she was employed as a dressmaker. By summertime, Susie and Harry had moved to Montana where she re- married her first husband — who apparently adopted the young boy and changed his name to 'Harry Voorhies'; and by the close of the decade, Paul had returned to his roots in St- Léonard-Parent.
Back on familiar French turf, 'Paul Dubey' once again became 'Napoléon Dubé' (though in the 1921 census he was enumerated as 'Paul'). In 1919 at age fifty-one, he fell in love for the second time — with a local girl named Anna Soucy. Though she was thirty-two years his junior (!), he asked for her hand in marriage; and on May 5, the two were wed. It was a coincidental and ironic union that would en- dure to the end. For further details, see Anna Soucy's story here at Find-A-Grave.
Napoléon 'Paul' Dubé passed away in 1935 at age 67 in St-Léonard-Parent — less than two weeks after the birth of his last child. He and Anna had been married for sixteen years; and together they had had eleven children. Cause of death, according to the official certificate, was stomach cancer; and he was buried in the parish cemetery in Saint-Léonard-Parent. May he rest in peace.
NAPOLÉON DUBÉ's FAMILY
His Wife:
Anna M. (Soucy) Dubé 1900-1995 [age 95]
married May 5, 1919
St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, N.B., Canada
Note:
Napoléon had been previously married to
Susannah 'Susie' (Dray) [Voorhies] Dubé
1864-1952
married on April 15, 1903, in Wallace, Idaho
> Napoléon and Susie divorced between 1904 and 1910; and in 1910, she remarried her first husband (Charles Voorhies).
Napoléon & Anna's 11 Children:
· Joseph S. 'Joël' Dubé 1920-2015 [age 94]
· Jean-Paul Dubé 1921-1998 [age 76]
· Fidèle E. Dubé 1923-1982 [age 59]
· Patrick A. Dubé 1925-1995 [age 70]
· Régina L. (Dubé) Croteau
1926-2000 [age 73]
· Lucille A. (Dubé) [Croteau] Tibbetts
1927-1968 [age 40]
· Yvette T. (Dubé) Croteau
1929-2009 [age 79]
· Gérard L. Dubé 1930-1951 [age 20]
· Robert Dubé 1932-1932 [age 6 months]
· Clermont Dubé 1934-1935 [age 8 months]
· Roméo Dubé
Note:
Napoléon's son, with his first wife, was
Harry J. [Dubé] Voorhies 1904-1972 [age 67]
His Parents:
Léandré É. 'André' Dubé 1816-1869 [age 52]
and
Adélaïde M. (Lebel) Dubé 1830-1870 [age 39]
married July 28, 1851
St. Bruno
Van Buren, Maine
His Grandparents:
· Nicolas and Marie-Reine (Lévêque) Dubé
and
· Augustin and Théotiste (Lebel) Lebel
Note:
All four of Napoléon's grandparents hailed from Kamouraska County in the Province of Québec
CEMETERY INFORMATION:
Type of Marker: Headstone (monument)
Napoléon's life story is both interesting and somewhat out of the ordinary — right from childhood. Born in 1868, he was only fifteen-months-old when his father passed away at age fifty-two; and in 1870, his mother died
at age thirty-nine. The ten Dubé siblings, or- phans all, were taken in by various relatives and friends; and Napoléon was sent to live on a farm in French Canada — at the home of his godmother, Julie (Cyr) Cormier. It appears that Julie had either a close friendship or a cousin- hood connection with the Dubé family — as when the census was enumerated in 1871, three-year-old Napoléon was living on the Cormier farm in St-Léonard-Parent — along with his aged grandmother, Théotiste Lebel.
By 1881, Napoléon's grandmother had passed away (as well as Julie Cormier's husband, Fir- min); but the young teenager was still living on the farm in St-Léonard. According to the story later told by his wife, Anna, Napoléon left home when he was around fourteen (a year or so after the '81 census) to travel and explore the country. Legend has it that, in time, Napoléon managed to visit forty-seven of the forty-eight states, working a variety of jobs along the way — as a farmhand, a coal miner, a lumberjack, or whatever he had to do to earn a living. It's also said that when he eventually reached the west coast, he pros- pected for gold in California — and that he was one of the thousands who headed north in the 1890s during the Alaskan gold rush.
By the turn of the century, Napoléon had set- tled in Cedar Township, Montana, where ac- cording to the census he was employed as a lumberman. He had also, by then, anglicized his name to 'Paul Dubey'. Still single at that time, Paul would soon cross paths with a gal from England, fall in love, and marry.
According to the records in Shoshone County, Idaho, 'Paul Dubey' tied the knot with 'Susie' (Dray) Voorhies in the spring of 1903 in Wal- lace, Idaho. Research indicates that Susie was then in her late thirties, a woman with five children whose husband was in prison for stealing cattle. She apparently divorced him to marry Paul; and on February 7, 1904, she gave birth to a son who was named Harry.
For whatever reason, the Dubey marriage was short-lived; and the couple divorced sometime before 1910, as confirmed by that year's cen- sus records. Paul, then forty-two years old, was living alone in Mullan, Idaho, working in a local mill; Susie and their son 'Harry Dubey' were boarding at the Hillside Hotel in Monte- sano, Washington — where she was employed as a dressmaker. By summertime, Susie and Harry had moved to Montana where she re- married her first husband — who apparently adopted the young boy and changed his name to 'Harry Voorhies'; and by the close of the decade, Paul had returned to his roots in St- Léonard-Parent.
Back on familiar French turf, 'Paul Dubey' once again became 'Napoléon Dubé' (though in the 1921 census he was enumerated as 'Paul'). In 1919 at age fifty-one, he fell in love for the second time — with a local girl named Anna Soucy. Though she was thirty-two years his junior (!), he asked for her hand in marriage; and on May 5, the two were wed. It was a coincidental and ironic union that would en- dure to the end. For further details, see Anna Soucy's story here at Find-A-Grave.
Napoléon 'Paul' Dubé passed away in 1935 at age 67 in St-Léonard-Parent — less than two weeks after the birth of his last child. He and Anna had been married for sixteen years; and together they had had eleven children. Cause of death, according to the official certificate, was stomach cancer; and he was buried in the parish cemetery in Saint-Léonard-Parent. May he rest in peace.
NAPOLÉON DUBÉ's FAMILY
His Wife:
Anna M. (Soucy) Dubé 1900-1995 [age 95]
married May 5, 1919
St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, N.B., Canada
Note:
Napoléon had been previously married to
Susannah 'Susie' (Dray) [Voorhies] Dubé
1864-1952
married on April 15, 1903, in Wallace, Idaho
> Napoléon and Susie divorced between 1904 and 1910; and in 1910, she remarried her first husband (Charles Voorhies).
Napoléon & Anna's 11 Children:
· Joseph S. 'Joël' Dubé 1920-2015 [age 94]
· Jean-Paul Dubé 1921-1998 [age 76]
· Fidèle E. Dubé 1923-1982 [age 59]
· Patrick A. Dubé 1925-1995 [age 70]
· Régina L. (Dubé) Croteau
1926-2000 [age 73]
· Lucille A. (Dubé) [Croteau] Tibbetts
1927-1968 [age 40]
· Yvette T. (Dubé) Croteau
1929-2009 [age 79]
· Gérard L. Dubé 1930-1951 [age 20]
· Robert Dubé 1932-1932 [age 6 months]
· Clermont Dubé 1934-1935 [age 8 months]
· Roméo Dubé
Note:
Napoléon's son, with his first wife, was
Harry J. [Dubé] Voorhies 1904-1972 [age 67]
His Parents:
Léandré É. 'André' Dubé 1816-1869 [age 52]
and
Adélaïde M. (Lebel) Dubé 1830-1870 [age 39]
married July 28, 1851
St. Bruno
Van Buren, Maine
His Grandparents:
· Nicolas and Marie-Reine (Lévêque) Dubé
and
· Augustin and Théotiste (Lebel) Lebel
Note:
All four of Napoléon's grandparents hailed from Kamouraska County in the Province of Québec
CEMETERY INFORMATION:
Type of Marker: Headstone (monument)
Inscription
À
LA MÉMOIRE DE
NAPOLÉON DUBÉ
ÉPOUX DE
ANNA SOUCY
DÉCÉDÉE À
ST. LÉONARD PARENT
LE 15 NOV 1936
AGÉ DE 69 ANS
6 MOIS 15 JOURS
R.I.P.
Translation:
In memory of Napoléon Dubé, husband of Anna Soucy, died at St. Léonard Parent the fifteenth of November 1936 [at the] age of 69 years, 6 months, 15 days
< Engraving Error >
Napoléon died in 1935, not 1936.
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