Alfred S. Cormier, known simply as 'Fred', was born in St-Léonard-Parent, New Brunswick, Canada; and though as an adult he used the middle initial 'S.' (for 'Sévérin'), he had been christened 'Jean-Baptiste Alfred'. Like his an- cestors before him, Fred opted to live the life of a farmer in the small close-knit community where he had been raised — taking over the reins of the family farm when his aging father retired.

Fred was twice married: first in 1912, the day after his twenty-seventh birthday; and again in 1938, after having been unexpectedly wid- owed. With his first wife (Clarina), Fred fath- ered thirteen children, eleven of whom grew to adulthood and married; but in 1936, shortly before their Silver Wedding Anniversary, Clar- ina passed away at age forty-three from com- plications of a late-in-life childbirth. Fourteen months after Clarina's death, at age fifty-two, Fred remarried — to a young woman who was half his age; and together he and she had at least six children.

In 1962, after a two-month stay at the pro-
vincial hospital in Cambellton, New Brunswick, Fred Cormier died of cancer at age seventy- six. He had never ventured far from his home- town roots; but he'd had a full and fruitful life, leaving behind nine sons to perpetuate the family name. At the time of his death, he and his second wife Bibiane had been married for twenty-five years; and he was survived by seventeen children, countless grandchildren and great-grandchildren, his elder brother Ubalde, and his sister Alice (Cormier) Morin. May he rest in peace.

ALFRED CORMIER's FAMILY

His Wives:
· Clarina (Ouellette) Cormier
1893-1936 [age 43]
married April 22, 1912
L'Église du Sacré-Coeur
Caribou, Maine
· Bibiane M. (Sirois) Cormier
1911-1985 [age 74]
married January 4, 1938
L'Église de St-Michel
Drummond, New Brunswick, Canada

His 19 Children [see note below]:
13 with Clarina Ouellette
· Lucie M. (Cormier) Lévesque
1913-1963 [age 40]
· Jeanne A. (Cormier) Lajoie 1914-
[born August 16, 1914]
[baptized 'Marie Anne Jeanne']
[deceased; date and place of burial unknown]
· Léopold A. 'Paul' Cormier 1916-1985 [age 69]
[baptized 'Joseph Magloire Autheline Léopold']
[died Nov. 20, 1985, in South Windsor, CT.]
[buried in Winsted, CT.; cemetery unknown]
· Lionel O. Cormier 1917-2000 [age 82]
· Lucien I. Cormier 1919-2012 [age 92]
· Édwina (Cormier) Roy 1921-2006 [age 84]
· Ludger E. Cormier 1923-1978 [age 54]
· Rita (Cormier) Bélanger
· Onile J. Cormier 1926-1975 [age 48]
· Fernand 'Fern' Cormier 1930-2015 [age 85]
· Gérard 'Gerry' Cormier
· René R. Cormier 1935-1935 [age 1 day]
· Fernande Cormier 1936-1939 [age 2½]
6 with Bibiane Sirois [see note below]
· Alfréda Cormier 1939-2015 [age 76]
· Madeleine (Cormier) Martin
· René A. Cormier
· Jean-Guy Cormier
· Donat 'Don' Cormier
· Thérèse (Cormier) Breau
Note: According to oral family history, Fred and his second wife Bibiane had '10' children, four of whom are said to have died at birth or as infants [names unknown]. As yet, no rec- ords have been found to confirm this; though one source claims that an unnamed child was born on December 12, 1940, and another on April 18, 1950.

His Parents:
Sévérin X. Cormier 1852-1930 [age 78]
and Léocadie (Martin) Cormier
1853-1947 [age 93]
married August 11, 1879
Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue
St-Léonard-Parent, Madawaska, N.B., Canada

His 7 Siblings:
· Flavie M. (Cormier) Soucy
1881-1901 [age 20]
· Ubalde S. Cormier 1883-1964 [age 81]
· Marie A. 'Annie' (Cormier) Thibodeau
1886-1907 [age 20]
· Joseph J. Cormier 1889-1889 [age 3 weeks]
· Onésime T. 'Ozime' Cormier
1890-1931 [age 40]
· Alice S. (Cormier) Morin 1892-1968 [age 76]
· François-Xavier Cormier
1894-1894 [age 1 day]

His Grandparents:
· Firmin Cormier 1809-1871 [age 62]
and Céleste M. 'Julie' (Cyr) Cormier
1812-1887 [age 74]
· Basile Martin, Jr. 1822-1887 [age 65]
and Anastasie (Martin) Martin
1833-1911 [age 78]

CEMETERY INFORMATION

Type of Marker: Headstone (monument)