64 yrs, 10 mos., 12 days, wife of Romuell Shangraw
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Info below provided by: jrb
Eusème was half of one of many sets of twins born by her parents. Her and her brother were baptized in the Roman Catholic Church on April 16, 1812, the day they were born. The baptism record has her name recorded as Susanne and her twin brother's name recorded as Amateur, but they would later go as Eusème and Mathieu. Her godfather was Joseph Gagnon, and her godmother was Marie Josephte Frégeau, her paternal aunt.
Eusème's parents were Pierre Frégeau dit Laplanche, a farmer, and Josephte Meunier dite Lapierre. Pierre died when Eusème and Mathieu were barely a year old. He had gone missing from St. Mathias, Quebec on June 11, 1813, and was found in the Richelieu river, having drowned, the 19th of the same month. He was buried the following day. Eusème's mother Josephte remarried to Pierre Senez, a farmer, at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec on February 18, 1822.
On March 15, 1827, a month after Eusème's 14th birthday, her mother Josephte died in Marieville, Quebec, and was buried two days later.
Eusème married Romualde Gingras February 5, 1828 in Marieville, Quebec, less than a year after her mother's death. Eusème was 15 and Romualde was a few days shy of 21, which was considered the age of majority by the Catholic church at the time. The couple ended up migrating to Vermont and there joined a French Baptist congregation. The phrase "French Baptist" might sound like an oxymoron to a lot of people, but a lot of the French Canadian immigrants in the region around Montgomery, VT, where Eusème and Romualde lived, became French Baptists. A large part of these French immigrants, including their first French pastor, were illiterate. As such, their names were frequently anglicized by the literate English-speakers of the region, as can be evidenced by the gravestone inscriptions and the ongoing usage of the anglicized names. However, it is to note that the literate French pastor of the Baptist Church in Granby, Quebec still spelled her and her husband's names without anglicization when her interment was recorded in the Granby register. That record provides that her burial took place on the 26th day of February in 1875.
On September 12, 1877, the widowed Romualde would remarry to Angeline Parenteau, born King, by the French Baptist Pastor in Enosburgh, VT.
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Info below provided by: jrb
Eusème was half of one of many sets of twins born by her parents. Her and her brother were baptized in the Roman Catholic Church on April 16, 1812, the day they were born. The baptism record has her name recorded as Susanne and her twin brother's name recorded as Amateur, but they would later go as Eusème and Mathieu. Her godfather was Joseph Gagnon, and her godmother was Marie Josephte Frégeau, her paternal aunt.
Eusème's parents were Pierre Frégeau dit Laplanche, a farmer, and Josephte Meunier dite Lapierre. Pierre died when Eusème and Mathieu were barely a year old. He had gone missing from St. Mathias, Quebec on June 11, 1813, and was found in the Richelieu river, having drowned, the 19th of the same month. He was buried the following day. Eusème's mother Josephte remarried to Pierre Senez, a farmer, at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec on February 18, 1822.
On March 15, 1827, a month after Eusème's 14th birthday, her mother Josephte died in Marieville, Quebec, and was buried two days later.
Eusème married Romualde Gingras February 5, 1828 in Marieville, Quebec, less than a year after her mother's death. Eusème was 15 and Romualde was a few days shy of 21, which was considered the age of majority by the Catholic church at the time. The couple ended up migrating to Vermont and there joined a French Baptist congregation. The phrase "French Baptist" might sound like an oxymoron to a lot of people, but a lot of the French Canadian immigrants in the region around Montgomery, VT, where Eusème and Romualde lived, became French Baptists. A large part of these French immigrants, including their first French pastor, were illiterate. As such, their names were frequently anglicized by the literate English-speakers of the region, as can be evidenced by the gravestone inscriptions and the ongoing usage of the anglicized names. However, it is to note that the literate French pastor of the Baptist Church in Granby, Quebec still spelled her and her husband's names without anglicization when her interment was recorded in the Granby register. That record provides that her burial took place on the 26th day of February in 1875.
On September 12, 1877, the widowed Romualde would remarry to Angeline Parenteau, born King, by the French Baptist Pastor in Enosburgh, VT.
64 yrs, 10 mos., 12 days, wife of Romuell Shangraw
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Info below provided by: jrb
Eusème was half of one of many sets of twins born by her parents. Her and her brother were baptized in the Roman Catholic Church on April 16, 1812, the day they were born. The baptism record has her name recorded as Susanne and her twin brother's name recorded as Amateur, but they would later go as Eusème and Mathieu. Her godfather was Joseph Gagnon, and her godmother was Marie Josephte Frégeau, her paternal aunt.
Eusème's parents were Pierre Frégeau dit Laplanche, a farmer, and Josephte Meunier dite Lapierre. Pierre died when Eusème and Mathieu were barely a year old. He had gone missing from St. Mathias, Quebec on June 11, 1813, and was found in the Richelieu river, having drowned, the 19th of the same month. He was buried the following day. Eusème's mother Josephte remarried to Pierre Senez, a farmer, at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec on February 18, 1822.
On March 15, 1827, a month after Eusème's 14th birthday, her mother Josephte died in Marieville, Quebec, and was buried two days later.
Eusème married Romualde Gingras February 5, 1828 in Marieville, Quebec, less than a year after her mother's death. Eusème was 15 and Romualde was a few days shy of 21, which was considered the age of majority by the Catholic church at the time. The couple ended up migrating to Vermont and there joined a French Baptist congregation. The phrase "French Baptist" might sound like an oxymoron to a lot of people, but a lot of the French Canadian immigrants in the region around Montgomery, VT, where Eusème and Romualde lived, became French Baptists. A large part of these French immigrants, including their first French pastor, were illiterate. As such, their names were frequently anglicized by the literate English-speakers of the region, as can be evidenced by the gravestone inscriptions and the ongoing usage of the anglicized names. However, it is to note that the literate French pastor of the Baptist Church in Granby, Quebec still spelled her and her husband's names without anglicization when her interment was recorded in the Granby register. That record provides that her burial took place on the 26th day of February in 1875.
On September 12, 1877, the widowed Romualde would remarry to Angeline Parenteau, born King, by the French Baptist Pastor in Enosburgh, VT.
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Info below provided by: jrb
Eusème was half of one of many sets of twins born by her parents. Her and her brother were baptized in the Roman Catholic Church on April 16, 1812, the day they were born. The baptism record has her name recorded as Susanne and her twin brother's name recorded as Amateur, but they would later go as Eusème and Mathieu. Her godfather was Joseph Gagnon, and her godmother was Marie Josephte Frégeau, her paternal aunt.
Eusème's parents were Pierre Frégeau dit Laplanche, a farmer, and Josephte Meunier dite Lapierre. Pierre died when Eusème and Mathieu were barely a year old. He had gone missing from St. Mathias, Quebec on June 11, 1813, and was found in the Richelieu river, having drowned, the 19th of the same month. He was buried the following day. Eusème's mother Josephte remarried to Pierre Senez, a farmer, at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec on February 18, 1822.
On March 15, 1827, a month after Eusème's 14th birthday, her mother Josephte died in Marieville, Quebec, and was buried two days later.
Eusème married Romualde Gingras February 5, 1828 in Marieville, Quebec, less than a year after her mother's death. Eusème was 15 and Romualde was a few days shy of 21, which was considered the age of majority by the Catholic church at the time. The couple ended up migrating to Vermont and there joined a French Baptist congregation. The phrase "French Baptist" might sound like an oxymoron to a lot of people, but a lot of the French Canadian immigrants in the region around Montgomery, VT, where Eusème and Romualde lived, became French Baptists. A large part of these French immigrants, including their first French pastor, were illiterate. As such, their names were frequently anglicized by the literate English-speakers of the region, as can be evidenced by the gravestone inscriptions and the ongoing usage of the anglicized names. However, it is to note that the literate French pastor of the Baptist Church in Granby, Quebec still spelled her and her husband's names without anglicization when her interment was recorded in the Granby register. That record provides that her burial took place on the 26th day of February in 1875.
On September 12, 1877, the widowed Romualde would remarry to Angeline Parenteau, born King, by the French Baptist Pastor in Enosburgh, VT.
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