Married 27 May 1879 at Cathédrale-St-Jacque-le-Mineur in Montreal, Quebec to Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois. Contrary to popular opinion, Marie was not placed in a sanitarium by her husband Bourgeois. She followed him to America in 1888. Her husband deserted her and began living with Alice de Longpre. She is found in the 1900 Census as a lodger with another family in Chicago. At that time, she was a piano teacher, and reveals that she had borne three children, but only two were living . By 1910, the census states she was living in Chicago, IL and had moved in with her son Marie-Joseph-Gaston-Charles. He was an architect like his father. (Curiously, his mother then stated she had borne four children, but only two were living, perhaps an error by the census agent.) When her only son unexpectedly died at age 37 in 1917, Marie moved yet again. Her last residence was in Natoma, CA, where she is found on the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Marie-Anne-Josephine-Blanche and her husband Edward Eugene Strouse. In November of 1921, Marie filed for divorce from Bourgeois, on the grounds of "failing to provide" . It is not known if Bourgeois contested the divorce, but probably did not. If the divorce was uncontested (he was in Chicago at the time), it would have finalized around May 1922. Her grave stone has the wrong year, it should be 1924, not 1923. She is buried at the Old Masonic Cemetery, an older cemetery acquired by Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery. (Data courtesy of Nancy C. Hall)
Married 27 May 1879 at Cathédrale-St-Jacque-le-Mineur in Montreal, Quebec to Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois. Contrary to popular opinion, Marie was not placed in a sanitarium by her husband Bourgeois. She followed him to America in 1888. Her husband deserted her and began living with Alice de Longpre. She is found in the 1900 Census as a lodger with another family in Chicago. At that time, she was a piano teacher, and reveals that she had borne three children, but only two were living . By 1910, the census states she was living in Chicago, IL and had moved in with her son Marie-Joseph-Gaston-Charles. He was an architect like his father. (Curiously, his mother then stated she had borne four children, but only two were living, perhaps an error by the census agent.) When her only son unexpectedly died at age 37 in 1917, Marie moved yet again. Her last residence was in Natoma, CA, where she is found on the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Marie-Anne-Josephine-Blanche and her husband Edward Eugene Strouse. In November of 1921, Marie filed for divorce from Bourgeois, on the grounds of "failing to provide" . It is not known if Bourgeois contested the divorce, but probably did not. If the divorce was uncontested (he was in Chicago at the time), it would have finalized around May 1922. Her grave stone has the wrong year, it should be 1924, not 1923. She is buried at the Old Masonic Cemetery, an older cemetery acquired by Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery. (Data courtesy of Nancy C. Hall)
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Marie Bourgeois passed on Nov. 23, 1923 (year is wrong, should be 1924)
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