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Matches 1,151 to 1,200 of 2,135

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1151	Left for New York after his mother's death. Nothing further known.	Robinson, Wilfred Jr. (I04643)
1152	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Larson, Leland Leonard (I00462)
1153	Lena's niece, Norma Dusseau Gray states her children adopted the name of Schaffer. This needs to be verified as I have found no evidence of this statement. I believe they continued to go by the name of Bourdo (a corruption of the French Canadian name "Bourdeau").	Dusseau, Lena\Helena (I00243)
1154	Leo Deszell lived in Lasalle Twp., MI, in 1977 (see wife's obit)	Deszell, Leo James Sr. (I01984)
1155	Leo Deszell, Jr., lived in Temperance, MI, in 1977 (see mother's obit)	Deszell, Leo James Jr. (I01985)
1156	Leo Fitzsimmons and Bridget Carlin moved to Buffalo, NY.	Fitzsimmons, Leo (I05179)
1157	Leo LaVoy lived in Rockwood, MI.	LaVoy, Leo (I00071)
1158	Leo Thomas Tambeau, the fifth child of William Tambo, Sr., and Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, was born ll May l908 in Olyphant, PA. (His baptismal certificate, at St. Patrick's Church, Olyphant, records his birth date inaccurately as 3 May l908.) He was baptized 24 May l908. His godparents were Thomas Levuli (?) and his maternal Aunt Mary ("Polly") Fitzsimmons Dunnigan. He attended Lincoln School, a few blocks from ll4 School St. where he lived as a child in Olyphant. He was the only one of his brothers and sisters to finish High School. His academic record still survives for the years l923-24, l924-25, and l925-26 (sophomore through senior year of High School) in Olyphant Public School Records. A copy of his record in this writer's possession indicates final course grades running from 70 to 90% He appears to have been a "B" average student in High School. His highest grade was in junior year Physics (90%) followed by grades of 88% in Algebra, 87% in Biology. His lowest grades were in French, 70% in his junior Year, and 76% in his senior year. These high school French classes are no doubt the source of his inspiration to change the spelling of the family name from Tambo as he had inherited it from his father, to the French sound-alike, Tambeau. Father's nickname was "Shorty" among his relative, although he was by no means the shortest member of his family. His half-brother, Eddy Mackerel was probably shorter. He appears to have inherited his stature from his mother's side of the family, as his mother, aunts, and maternal grandfather were on the short side as judged from their pictures. My father's childhood passion was baseball, an interest he carried on in his adult years, seemingly never missing the summer time broadcasts on radio, and later on TV. In his youth he belonged to a sandlot team called the North Valley Athletic Club, the initials of which club can be spotted on a uniform he is wearing in a family picture taken when he was about l6 years old. During his Olyphant years he held a number of jobs, according to his close friend, Tony Criscera. Leo worked for an Atlantic-Richfield gas station as a "gas jockey" in Scranton, PA. For a time he managed a beer garden, called the Rathskeller, on Wyoming Ave. in Scranton. He also worked at the Mile's Slope Mines of the Hudson Coal Co. Leo appears to have come to Michigan briefly in l929-30, when he was about 2l-22 years old, to seek work, perhaps with the assistance of his half-brother, Eddy Mackerel, who had a job at the Ford Motor Company' Rouge Plant, and who had come to Michigan several years before in l920-22. But these were the lean years of the Great Depression and apparently he did not find work so he returned to Pennsylvania. His return trip to Michigan did not take place until about l936, probably the summer of that year, as his friend, Tony Criscera, states that Leo and his brother, Jack Tambeau, worked their way to Michigan in an old "jalopy", taking jobs along the way, including working on celery farms in New York State as pickers. While I was riding down Livernois, in Detroit, a number of years before he died, my father pointed out an abandoned stone gas station a few blocks south of Fenkell on the west side of Livernois. He stated that his first job in Michigan was at that gas station and noted, rather proudly that his boss, many years later, looked him up in the phone book to call him and reminisce, as he considered my father his best worker. Father's friend, Tony Criscera, believed he only worked there nine months before he took an "island job" at Ned's Gas Station (i.e., the gas pump. In those days, all gas stations pumped the gas for their customers and while the tank was filling, washed the car windows and checked the tires for air, and gave you the morning newspaper free.) Ned's was located on Michigan Avenue, on the southwest corner of Neckel, across the street from the old Dearborn (MI) City Hall. During the years of World War II, father, who had been too young for World War I and too old for World War II, as he always put it, worked for Fisher Body in Detroit. He was by l94l, at the time of Pearl Harbor, married three years, had two children, and was 33 years old, and so was exempt from the Draft. After the War father went to work for Vix Home and Auto supply, several miles down Michigan Ave in west Dearborn. He became the manager there. The site of this store is located at 2l925 Michigan Ave. and has for many years been occupied by Gniewek Trophies. In the Spring of l954 Father left Vix to become an insurance agent for the Knights of Columbus. He distinguished himself repeatedly, after the lean early years, by becoming the top salesman in the country for the company, selling over $l,000,000 of insurance a year, a feat unheard of before he joined the company. Father appeared to be a lay psychologist in this regard. He said that when he started his pitch, he would keep close eye contact with the perspective customer and run through a series of common motives for buying things, e.g, security, prestige, keeping up with the Joneses, etc. and when he would see the unconscious involuntary look in the eye of his customer that indicated interest in that motive, his talk would immediately focus on that interest. Much of Father's social and religious life focused around the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization. Prior to becoming an insurance agent for the Knights of Columbus, he belonged the Bishop Foley Council on Michigan Ave., a few blocks west of Greenfield, in Dearborn (MI). He became Deputy Grand Knight at this Council in l952-53, an office obtained by being elected by the membership. He was unable to obtain the coveted goal of Grand Knight, as in the following year he became an insurance agent and could not hold office. Father did rise to the honorary rank of Fourth Degree, which entitled him to wear an elaborate regalia of cape, sword, and plumed hat. Father's association with the Knights of Columbus uniquely fit his temperament. He was a man who loved people and large groups of people. And the love was returned. He could not go into a Council Hall without excited shouts hailing him over to someone's table. He, himself, in such situations could be heard across a room exchanging banter with one person or another. In this regard he must have been like his father who also seemed to be at home among large groups, as narrated earlier. But father had his gloomy side. In the summer when his business was bad or when there were economic downturns, he would turn to his family balefully and say: "You're living high off the hog now, but wait until you're living on the poor farm." Whether this saying sprung from his Olyphant days or his Irish heritage I cannot say. I did have to laugh, though, when I was doing the Census for Lackawanna County, long after Father had died, and I came across the Pittston Poor Farm which was very near Olyphant, PA, his hometown. Father had many turns of expression like the "poor farm", which his son, Jerry Tambeau captured and set down in memory of Father. Father inherited numerous superstitions from the Irish side of his family, the most clearly remembered one being the "first footing", a Celtic practice honored both by the Irish and Scottish on New Year's Day. At the stroke of midnight, as long as my brother and I lived in the home, one of us would have to go out on the porch and come back in, a duty only a dark haired male could perform each year to insure the household of good luck in the coming year. Father was very insistent about this although I never remember him explaining why we had to do this unusual ritual. He was good at predicting the rain. He would look into the sky and see the cumulus nimbus clouds that presaged the coming of rain and say: "The sheep are going home, so there is going to be rain tomorrow." He was right, the loose little clouds looked like the backs of sheep in a herd walking across the skies and the rain was always soon to follow.. Father had a dish he was fond of making for himself, called "chinken-chonken", which is as close as I can approximate the sound of his concoction. He claimed that it had been passed down to him by his father and so on. However, other more distant branches of the Tombow Family have not heard of it. So it may be a tradition handed down to father's father from his Welsh step-dad, Nicolas Johns. In this conjecture there may be some truth as bread was used to "sop up" the sauce this recipe made, thus making it a modified Welsh rarebit. Chinken-chonken was a thin watery soup made with sharp cheddar cheese and finely minced onions brought to a simmer on the stove, filling the house with its pungent odor. My sister, Anne Tambeau Travis, has volunteered to pass this exquisite recipe down in the family. Father was very fond of sweets, a trait of the Tombow family I have learned about from talking to the more distant branches in E. Greenville OH where one member has admitted to stealing candies from her children's Christmas sock and Easter Basket, a trait shared by my sister Lucy and me, as well as our cousin Ruthie Smith Miekstyn, daughter of my father's sister, Pearl Tambeau. Father used to put white granulated sugar on his pancakes and two heaping spoons of it in his coffee in the morning, a trait I seized upon one April Fool's Day, to exchange the sugar in the bowl with salt. It was my last trick of that sort. Father, upon dumping his usual two heap- ing teaspoons into his coffee, took a swig, and immediately ran to the bathroom. While I was never punished for this act of treachery, its results were so horrific on my father that such jokes never appealed to me again. Father's entertainment and cultural interests included the Rafael Sabatini novels, such as Scaramouche and Captain Blood, which he must have read in his youth as he made mention of these novels to me. He could also quote, and often did, the famous line from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner "Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!" The Zane Grey novels on western themes were also a favorite along with the many, many western series that were found on television in the l950's. He was devoted to the Milton Berle Texaco Show and to the Ed Sullivan Show, early television's comedy and variety shows, respectively. He was also fond of the proverb: "I use to complain of having no shoes until I met a man without feet." Father met mother, Lucille Dusseau, at her cousin Ellen Diszell Healey's house in the summer of l937. Ellen's husband, Bill Healey, was a first cousin on his mother's side. The summer time whirlwind romance led to a Fall wedding on 6 November l937 in Berkley, Michigan, at Our Lady of LaSalette Church. My mother's parents were Harvey Joseph Dusseau and Gertrude LaVoy. Mother was born in her grandfather, Moses LaVoy's home on the Stateline on 2l February l9l6. As the bedrooms were in Ohio, she was born in Toledo, Ohio, rather than Erie, Michigan, where the kitchen was. Her French Canadian ancestry is traced elsewhere by the writer. Father and mother first lived on Ternes Ave. in east Dearborn (MI) in an lower flat with my Father's brother, Jack Tambeau, and his first wife, Florence ("Flo") Haggerty, for about a year. Crowded quarters led to my parents finding their own apartment in l938 at l4368 Lanson, also in Dearborn. During this time, their first child, Patrick was born. In l939, they moved to their newly built home in east Dearborn, at 646l Mead, where they lived throughout their married life, raising their four children. Leo Thomas Tambeau died 25 January l973 in Dearborn, Michigan, at Oakwood Hospital after several weeks in a coma. He had succumbed to a series of heart attacks and strokes that profoundly disabled him over the last two years of his life. A death that had taken and was to take so many of his brothers and sisters and first cousins, as part of their lethal inheritance from their maternal grandmother, Anna Joyce Fitzsimmons. Leo is buried in St. Hedwig Cemetery, Dearborn Heights, MI, six graves from his sister Elizabeth ("Pearl") Tambeau Popowski, in Section 3D. His tombstone is engraved with "Blessed are the peacemakers", for many of us saw him in that role during his life. He was 64 years old when he died. Leo Thomas Tambeau and Lucille Mary Cecelia Dusseau had four children: Patrick, Gerald ("Jerry"), Anne, and Lucille Tambeau.	Tambeau, Leo Thomas (I00009)
1159	Leon GIRARD was born about 1660 in Lachine, Ile de Montreal, P. Q.. Parents: Jean GIRARD and Marie MARTIN. He was married to Marie-Clemence BEAUNE on 12 Apr 1688 in Lachine, Ile de Montreal, P. Q.. Children were: Marie-Charlotte GIRARD. For above see St. Gelais Families of North America website: http://www.familyorigins.com/users/s/t/g/Bob--Stgelais/FAMO1-0001/d697.htm#P28996 This person has conflicting data about his place of birth whether in France or Lachine, Quebec, Canada. The following site has Leon Girard born in Montreal in about 1670: http://www.geocities.com/michellemargraf/chandonia/fam00011.html	Girard, Leon (I03881)
1160	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	LaVoy, Leon Joseph (I10923)
1161	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family F4099
1162	Leonard Caccmoni and his wife, Rose Marie Coulthard resided in 1980 on Sandrson St., Olyphant, Pa.	Caccamoni, Leonard (I05171)
1163	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Dusseau, Leonard Michael (I00337)
1164	Leonard Elmer Gardner lives in Dundee, MI.	Gardner, Leonard Elmer (I02367)
1165	Leonora was a nurse in World War II and was formerly of Pittsburg, PA.	Cebula, Leonora (I03246)
1166	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Spalding, Leslie Jean (I09421)
1167	Leslie Tombow, carpenter, was burned to cdeath in 1934	Tombow, Leslie Earl I (I08139)
1168	Levi graduated from the Pulic Schools of Bay Co., MI June 3, 1901. Levi Duso's branch will be found in Flint as he moved there around World War II and opened a restuarant near a factory where he made lunches for the workers. Levi told his mother that he was mad that sdhe had so many children, so she wished him 12 and he had 11 according to Mrs. Arbertha Gautheir Baker, his niecee. As only nine are recorded here by Mrs. Arbertha Gauthier Baker, two must have died as infants or young children.	Duso, Levi (I07084)
1169	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Starr, Lewis (I00338)
1170	Liana Trombley's work found in the scrapbook section of Jean Baptiste Trembley of Newport, MI, states that Pierre Trombley's birthplace is: about 1627 in LaFilioniere, Saint Malo Parish, Rondonnai, Canton of Tourouvre, Arrondisement of Mortagne, Perche, France. Source for my data is Fr. Christian Denissens' work on French Canadian Families of the Deteroit Area. According to Liana Trombley, above citation, Pierre Tremblay, laborer, of the village of La Filionnaire, France, and Martin Huan, locksmith, signed a contract on 9 April 1647 in the said village to go to New France to do work for three years for Noel Juchereau, Sieur des Cahtelets of Quebec City, Canada. The contract being in April, we can assume that 1647 represents the date our ancestor Pierre Tremblay came to the New World. Pierre was to be paid the sum of 70 livres annually for his labors. Martin Huan, the locksmith, got 90 livres annually for his work. Pierre indicated to the notary that he did not know how to sign his name. This contract in its entirety is cited in translation in Lianna Trombley's research cited above. Pierre's death date and cemetery is cited by Liana Trombley, but declares the date is in dispute. Liana also states there is a statue in the village of L'Ange Gardien commemorating the 300th anniversary of Pierre Trombley's marriage to Ozanne-Jeanne Achon, placed there in 1957. Ozanne was a "King's daughter" sent to New France by King Louis XIV to take control of New France by way of populating it with the French People and their offspring. The statue portrays the original land contract for two arpents, or acres of frontage on the St Lawrence river and extending back 1/2 a league (1 and one half miles). It gave Pierre Trembley and his heirs, hunting, fishing, and pasturing rights, provided he pays each year on the feast of St. Remy the sum of one pound for each arpent of frontage and 2 chickens for the whole concession to Jean, Lord of Lauzon and Lothainville and Knight Grand Marshall of New France. The land conract is translated and found in Lianna Trombley's research. It was dated April 4, 1659, 12 years after his arrival in the New World. Denissen indicates he was a farmer in France. Pierre Tremblay's birth date of 1626 is consistent with his father Philibert-Gilbert Tremblay's birth date of 1604. But the dates of other members of this family in France are contradictory and need further research. Wives in most instances are unknown for the family in France. Neoella Reid Gold (noella@fungold.com) states that Pierre embarked on a caravel called "The Marguerite" on June 6, 1647 in the port of LaRochelle and after two months at sea arrived in Quebac. While in Quebec he first worked at the docks, then turned his atention to farming. For a biography of Pierre Tremblay, consult Thomas J. LaForest's, "Our French Canadian Ancestors", Vol. 3, Chapter 26, pp.233-241. See also Michigan's Habitant Heritage Magazine, Vol. 6, #1 and 2, p 8 ff (January 1985). See also: Tanguay, Genealogcial Dicitionary, Vol. 1, p. 571 which records that he is a farmer. He is also refrenced in Tanguay,Vol. 7, p. 336. For a coverage of the French ancestors of the Canadian Family see: Patrick Chevassu: "Les Tremblay" Histoire d'Un Peuple (in French only as of June, 2006)	Tremblay, Pierre (I05584)
1171	Librarian in Dubuque. Nothing further known.	Robinson, Vera (I04642)
1172	Like his maternal uncle, Francis Xavier Jarvis (See his entry), August Dusseau also suffered from schizophrenia. The following is the text of a letter sent to his sister Norma Dusseau Gray and her husband Robert Gray, Sr, dated July 14, 64 from Tujunga, CA. It was written in red ink. Peculiarities of style of the orginal have been kept in this transcription. "Dear Norm and Bob, "Pansy" (August's wife) "has been under the sod for 17 months, and She is now writing you a few lines to let you folks know that (it) is a lot more fun than anyone ever dreamed about. Her and I are getting reid of the worst case of cancer. Pansy is now helping me pull whiskers 7 days a week, and now we can do an advance Version of the TWIST and Ballet Dancing. I can now tell you where Ma and Pa Dusseau went." (End of page one of the letter) "They are now part of me and the rest of the Darn Family Same applies to Rudolph." (His brother who died in a World War I plane accident) "I see Her now and then for 1/2 a minute about ten times a Day and is She Pretty and does some of the most beautiful Dnacing and Singing I ever saw or heard Just before she disapears into My Head. Do you rmemeber the Valentine Twins, Minnie and Ellen? Well anyway Both twins are now under also, and ar now becoming Part of Me. They used to Live next to the Flat that Paw & Harvey" (End of second page) "built on Door St." (actually spelled Dorr) (I used to go to shcool with them and also Dance together with them. . How is Bob doing, I haven't heard any thing from Henry and Edith" (August's brother and sister-in-law) "for a year or So. Well anyway Pansy and I will be walking in on you Folks, in a few Months from now. The same old Pansy, but looking a lot Prettier. In Jan 5, 65 I will be 66 years young and by the time I am 70 years old, I will be able to do the splits. Also my favorite Hobby is to Look striahgt at the Sun every Day" (end of page three) "I haven't shaved for thee years "with 6 Power Binoculars' for about 10 minuts and my Eyesight is far better than when I was 30 years old. I have been at it for 11 years. Is Bob still working at the Scale works? I can read some very small Print. Inclosed is a sampleof wghat I can read without glasses, hee's hoping to hear from you soon. My ability to write used to be 3 times worse than it is now. "Gus and Pansy "Deceased" "Elma and Thelma "Deceased" "Valentine" (Enclosed with this letter was a small advertisement for moedls of old cars reduced to such a size that it was impossible even with a magnifying glass to read the printing. The letter itself was handwrittten and quite legible. In the summer of 1959, Patrick L. Tombeau met his great-uncle August at his small home. In a room about 10'x 10' he had two five foot square speaakers attached to a juke box of LP records and said when he played the music a ballerina doll on top of the juke box would get down and dance on the floor with him. He shwed me some pink ballet slippers he said he wore. He also talked aboutpulling whiskers, being able to look in the craters of themoon and seeing telephone wires three miles away. He had tight rubber bands around a section of his wrist stating he was killing cancer of the wrist with them. In 1951, I also met him and while he conversed quite coherently on his tool and die equipment in the shop attahced to his house, he easily skittered into irrational talk on other subjects.) This couple had no children.	Dusseau, August Raphael Josachen (I00232)
1173	Linda LaVoy lived in Greeneville, TN>	LaVoy, Linda (I00225)
1174	Linda Lavoy lives with her sister Karren LaVoy Buchelt with her daughter, Amanda Ann LaVoy at 7422 Wells Rd, Petersburg, MI 49270. Linda is not married.	LaVoy, Linda (I00905)
1175	Linuis Reau lived at 3456 Doyle St., Toledo, OH.	Reau, Linus (I01790)
1176	Lisa Sulier lives in Temperance, MI, with her two children,Jon and Jacqueline. She was widowed prior to 2007.	Sulier, Lisa (I06347)
1177	Listed as 28 in the 1666 Census and as 25 in the 1667 Census, Montreal, Canada.	Robert, Pierre pere, dit LaPierre-LaPomerais (I05512)
1178	Listed in the Newport Records as Moses Gerneau, died 1877, 30 years old, son of Adolph Gerneau and Margaret Trombley. This is an entry filled with errors. Gerneau used for Gervais/ Jarvis and their child was more likely 3 years old than 30.	Jarvis, Moses (I07033)
1179	Little Snipe was a full blooded Potawatomi Indian who lived on the reservation west of Detroit's Fort Pontchartrain. Her liason with Charles Gouin occurred while he was married to his wife Susan Boyer. "White Feather" was the result of this union. At age 11 White Feather was baptized as Marie Gouin and subsequently married the founder of the LaVopy Family of Monroe County, MI, Francois LaVoy II.	Snipe, Little (I00030)
1180	lived in Addison, MI.	LaVoy, Gilbert (I00851)
1181	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Buddle, Sandra (I04993)
1182	Lived in Bufalo, NY, in 1980.	Fitzsimmons, Brother Leo (I05208)
1183	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Jarvis, Harold (I10404)
1184	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Lucker, Christopher (I06875)
1185	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Tambeau, Nancy (I04267)
1186	Lives in N. Canton (2004).	Tombow, Timothy L. (I09531)
1187	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Morrison, George (I04347)
1188	Lois laVoy lived in Allen Park, MI.	LaVoy, Lois (I00789)
1189	Loretta LaPan was a nununder the name of Sister Charles Mary Lapan, O.P. (?)	LaPan, Loretta Ann (I00880)
1190	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Oliver, Lori Irene (I07224)
1191	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Schnell, Lorne (I05313)
1192	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	LaVoy, Louis (I00853)
1193	Louis LaVoy was baptized 7 September 1883 (St. Joseph Erie, MI, Baptismal Records, Vol. V, p. 26). There is a "Suda" in the published Death Records of Monroe County (Vol. 3) who died of dephtheria on September 15,1891 at the age of 8 years, making his birth year 1883. This is apparently Louis LaVoy. Suda may be a misreading of "Ludo", short for Ludovicus, the Latin word for Louis which appears in Louis' birth record. Otherwise we must again resort to a "twin" explanation.	LaVoy, Louis (I00189)
1194	Louis Lawrence LaVoy Jr. was born in about 1966. He died in about 2001 of a tumor in his head which had afflicted him for 18 years and placed him in a vegetative state. He may have been buried in Harrison, MI. He was about 37 at the time of his death. This information was supplied by his brother Leon Joseph LaVoy. Louis was not married and had no children.	LaVoy, Louis Lawrence (I10925)
1195	Louis Prudhomme's occupation was that of a brwer. He was first cpatain of Montreal's militia. He acquired the title of "Honorable".	Prudhomme, Louis (I05989)
1196	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	LaVoy, Lloyd (I10922)
1197	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	LaVoy, Lt. Terrence A. (I00223)
1198	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Groff, Lucille Ann (I07583)
1199	Lucille Julia Knaggs married a French-speaking Irishman named Joseph Ryan. They lived at River Canard, Ontario, and kept up the French language in the home. Her brother Rollie Knaggs liked visiting them to speak French for the day. Lucile Julia and Joseph Ryan had a fourth child whose name is unknown. This information was supplied by Kathy Rasey, k3rasey@yahoo.com.	Knaggs, Lucille Julia (I09697)
1200	Lucille LaVoy was a time keeper at the time of her marriage.	LaVoy, Lucille (I00172)