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Clement Francis “Clem” Hugo

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Clement Francis “Clem” Hugo

Birth
Bay County, Michigan, USA
Death
6 Jun 1993 (aged 86)
Bay County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Bay City, Bay County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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Clement Francis Hugo
Born in Hampton, Bay, Michigan on 14 Jun 1906

Beloved husband of Isabella Agnes Richard
Married 11 Nov 1930

Father of Maureen (CJ Hages/Neil Beeckman), Elizabeth (Norbert Nearing), Lois (James Campau), Janice (Elvin Herzberg), John (Mary Kay Vallens/Joan N), Mary (James Hofmeister), and James (Carolyn Long/Gloria N).

Guardian of Edward J Boucher, Jr

Son of Francis Hugo and Harriet (Hattie) Tacey.
Grandson of Amand Hugo & Caroline Bouthillette, Henry Tessier/Tacey & Petronella (Nellie) Droomers.

Brother of Amand (Esther), Maureen (Joseph VanOchten), Zoa (Edward Gray), Charles (Ann Corrion/Mildred Corrion)

Member of St John the Evangelist Church and Knights of Columbus in Essexville, Michigan.

He was blessed with a very diverse and illustrious heritage. The Hugo family (originally documented as Hugot after the French Revolution) was from a small town near Verdun, France. His great-grandfather was a distant cousin of author/poet Victor Hugo.

His grandmother, Caroline, was part of the first full family to migrate to Bay City (then called Portsmouth). Before that, all settlers in the town came as trappers, speculators or to meet/marry others from down river. The Bouthillette family originates in a small town near Trois Rivieres, Quebec and descends from the great hero of Canada, Guillaume Couture. They originally left Quebec because of a great economic downturn in the 1840s and lived in the logging camps near St Alban's, Vermont. Her parents are also buried in the old section of St Patrick's, but their gravestones long ago disappeared because of the addition of automobile traffic on the path next to their graves.

His maternal grandmother, Petronella (Nellie) Droomers immigrated to the US just weeks after the American Centennial from a small town in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, not so far from the town where Clem's inlaws lived.

His paternal grandfather descends from a long, often amusing, cast of characters from the history of Canada. He is related, rather closely in fact, to the Dionne quintuplets, and Canadian martyr Louis Riel.

The death of his uncle, Henry Porter, triggered the only execution in the history of the State of Michigan. The family, in great part due to the execution of cousin Louis Riel in Canada, fought vigilantly to prevent the execution. The matter went all the way to the US Supreme Court and was ordered to be carried out at the Federal prison at Milan, Michigan. Then Michigan governor, Frank Murphy, fought the Roosevelt Administration to the teeth to at least get the execution moved to another state which did allow the death penalty in capital cases. FDR, fearing the collapse of his New Deal legislation, held firm. But by way of an apology to the governor, Roosevelt named him to the Supreme Court of the US. Henry Porter is buried next to his wife and inlaws in Old Saint Patrick.
Clement Francis Hugo
Born in Hampton, Bay, Michigan on 14 Jun 1906

Beloved husband of Isabella Agnes Richard
Married 11 Nov 1930

Father of Maureen (CJ Hages/Neil Beeckman), Elizabeth (Norbert Nearing), Lois (James Campau), Janice (Elvin Herzberg), John (Mary Kay Vallens/Joan N), Mary (James Hofmeister), and James (Carolyn Long/Gloria N).

Guardian of Edward J Boucher, Jr

Son of Francis Hugo and Harriet (Hattie) Tacey.
Grandson of Amand Hugo & Caroline Bouthillette, Henry Tessier/Tacey & Petronella (Nellie) Droomers.

Brother of Amand (Esther), Maureen (Joseph VanOchten), Zoa (Edward Gray), Charles (Ann Corrion/Mildred Corrion)

Member of St John the Evangelist Church and Knights of Columbus in Essexville, Michigan.

He was blessed with a very diverse and illustrious heritage. The Hugo family (originally documented as Hugot after the French Revolution) was from a small town near Verdun, France. His great-grandfather was a distant cousin of author/poet Victor Hugo.

His grandmother, Caroline, was part of the first full family to migrate to Bay City (then called Portsmouth). Before that, all settlers in the town came as trappers, speculators or to meet/marry others from down river. The Bouthillette family originates in a small town near Trois Rivieres, Quebec and descends from the great hero of Canada, Guillaume Couture. They originally left Quebec because of a great economic downturn in the 1840s and lived in the logging camps near St Alban's, Vermont. Her parents are also buried in the old section of St Patrick's, but their gravestones long ago disappeared because of the addition of automobile traffic on the path next to their graves.

His maternal grandmother, Petronella (Nellie) Droomers immigrated to the US just weeks after the American Centennial from a small town in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, not so far from the town where Clem's inlaws lived.

His paternal grandfather descends from a long, often amusing, cast of characters from the history of Canada. He is related, rather closely in fact, to the Dionne quintuplets, and Canadian martyr Louis Riel.

The death of his uncle, Henry Porter, triggered the only execution in the history of the State of Michigan. The family, in great part due to the execution of cousin Louis Riel in Canada, fought vigilantly to prevent the execution. The matter went all the way to the US Supreme Court and was ordered to be carried out at the Federal prison at Milan, Michigan. Then Michigan governor, Frank Murphy, fought the Roosevelt Administration to the teeth to at least get the execution moved to another state which did allow the death penalty in capital cases. FDR, fearing the collapse of his New Deal legislation, held firm. But by way of an apology to the governor, Roosevelt named him to the Supreme Court of the US. Henry Porter is buried next to his wife and inlaws in Old Saint Patrick.


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