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 1890 - 1951 (61 years)
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| Name |
Harvey Joseph Dusseau |
| Born |
5 Jan 1890 |
North Toledo, Ohio, at 1:30 pm  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
11 Dec 1951 |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Buried |
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Michigan |
| Person ID |
I00014 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
Samuel Levi Dusseau, b. Aug 1863, Erie, MI , d. 7 Sep 1917, Toledo, OH (1650 Dorr St.) (Age 54 years) |
| Mother |
Matilda Mary Jarvis, b. 26 Jan 1870, Berlin Twp., Monroe Co., MI , d. 19 Oct 1949, Toledo, Ohio (3819 Monroe St.) (Forest Cemetery) (Age 79 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1887 |
Berlin Township, MI (probable) |
| Family ID |
F0159 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Gertrude Sarah LaVoy, b. 25 Aug 1891, Stateline Home (Toledo, OH) , d. 19 Apr 1944, Detroit, MI (Age 52 years) |
| Married |
30 Apr 1912 |
Erie. MI, St Joseph Catholic Church |
| Children |
| + | 1. Charles Robert Dusseau, Sr. |
| + | 2. Lucille Mary Cecelia Theresa Dusseau, b. 21 Feb 1916, Toledo, OH , d. 10 May 2016, Westland. MI (Age 100 years) |
| + | 3. Rudolph Lawrence Dusseau, b. 2 Aug 1918, Detroit, MI , d. 26 Sep 1970, Orange County, California (Age 52 years) |
| | 4. Blanche Eleanore Dusseau, b. 15 Aug 1920, Detroit, MI , d. 8 Jan 1925, Royal Oak, MI (Scarlet Fever) (Age 4 years) |
| + | 5. Bernadette May Dusseau, b. 25 May 1923, Detroit, MI , bur. Roseburg National Cemetery |
| + | 6. Rose Mary Dusseau |
| + | 7. Joseph Raymond Dusseau, b. 29 Oct 1928, Berkley, CA , d. 22 Oct 1995, Elbert, CO (Age 66 years) |
| + | 8. Patrick James Dusseau |
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| Family ID |
F0021 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos
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 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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| At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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 | Homes of Harvey Joseph Dusseau
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 | Harvey Joseph Dusseau and Gertrude Sarah LaVoy
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 | Harvey Joseph Dusseau and Mary Della Dusseau
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 | Harvey Joseph Dusseau
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 | Los Angeles Home of Harvey Joseph Dusseau
835 E. 85th St., Los Angeles, CA,
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 | Harvey Joseph Dusseau
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 | Sons of Samuel L. Dusseau: (left) Harvey, August, Rudolph, and Henry
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 | Harvey Joseph Dusseau
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 | The Family of Samuel Levi Dusseau and Matilda Mary Jarvis
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 | Harvey and Gertrude Dusseau Burial Location (page 2)
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 | Knaggs' Reunion (After 1912)
Harvey Joseph Dusseau: (man to the right of Dennis Knaggs with head only showing in 3/4 profile) He is my grandfather.
Patrick LaVoy Tombeau
Written on the back of the photo:
Old women with white lace collar in center leaning in her chair is Angeline Cousino Knaggs, my great-great-grandmother. To her right is Sarah Knaggs LaVoy, my great-grandmother. Gertrude LaVoy Dusseau, my grandmother, is the fourth women from left standing in white. My grandfather Harvey Joseph Dusseau stands behind the man holding the child (fat face). Victor Knaggs (my great-grandmother's brother) stands behind Angeline.
Patrick LaVoy Tombeau |
 | Knaggs' Reunion (Before 1912)
Written on the back of the photo:
The oldest women in center is Angeline Cousino Knaggs in checkered shawl. She is my great-great-grandmother. To her right is Sarah Knaggs LaVoy, her daughter, and my great-grandmother. Standing behind Angeline, and to her immediate left, is Gertrude LaVoy, my grandmother, who married Harvey Dusseau, my grandfather. Gertrude LaVoy and sister Julia LaVoy are respectively forth and third women from right standing back row.
Patrick LaVoy Tombeau |
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| Notes |
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The Homes of Harvey Joseph Dusseau
Harvey Joseph Dusseau, the writer's grandfather, distinguished himself
by the number of homes he lived in during his life time. They were often
rented, sometimes behind his hardware stores with blankets on clothes
lines for walls, but he also built several of the homes he lived in
or live in homes to which he made significant renovations, as his family
increased in size.
Harvey Joseph Dusseau was born in Toledo, Ohio, 5 January 1890, the son
Samuel Levi Dusseau and Matilda Mary Jarvis. During his childhood he
lived on Dorr St., first over his father's grocery store, and then in
the house he helped his father build next door.
On 30 April 1912 he married Gertrude LaVoy of Erie, Michigan, in St. Jo-
seph's Church. From 1912-1915 he lived in a store down from the State-
line home of his father-in-law, Moses LaVoy, Sr., and across the street
from a Protestant Church, according to his daughter, Lucille Dusseau
Tambeau.
These accomodations were shared with his wife's sister, Julia LaVoy, and
her husband, Elroy Deszell.
His first child, Charles Robert Dusseau, was born into these
circumstances on September 8, 1913, in the home of his maternal
grandfather, Moses LaVoy, Sr. Since the bedrooms were acorss the
Stateline in Ohio, it is Toledo, not Erie, MI, that is his birthplace,
as it was also for his sister Lucille Dusseau.
The Polk City Directories for Detroit indicate that Harvey Dusseau and
his growing family lived in the following rented homes:
1916- 839, later 4305, 15th St at the corner of its intersection with
Buchanan. Harvey's occupation is listed as a machinist.
His second child, Lucille Mary Cecilia Dusseau, was born 21 February
1916, her mother traveling from this home in Detroit to her parents'
home on Stateline to give birth to her.
1917- 73, later 2315 Buchanan. His brother Henry lives with him during
this year. Harvey Dusseau is listed as a machinist. His brother, Henry
is listed as a laborer.
1918- 73, later 2315 Buchanan. Harvey Dusseau is listed as a plater. His
brother Henry has moved elsewhere.
Rudolph Lawrence Dusseau, Harvey Dusseau's third child, was born August
2, 1918, named after his uncle Rudolph Dusseau, the World War I hero of
the family.
1919- 825, later 2645 Ferry Park. He is listed as a plater
1920-21: 827, later 2649 Ferry Park. He is listed as a plater.
(Next door at 2645, Elroy and Julia LaVoy Desell live for this
year only)
Harvey's fourth child, Blanche Eleanore Dusseau, is born August 15,
1920.
1921-22: 2649 Ferry Park, Harvey Desseau (sic) is listed as a nickle
plater.
The Polk City Directories have no further entries in the following years
reflecting a move to Royal Oak, Michigan, in Oakland County.
In 1922 Harvey moved to the Judson Subdivision in Royal Oak and during
the winter of 1922-23 lived in a tent on the lot while he was building a
house with his brother-in law, Elroy Deszell.
This was on Garden St and another house was also built by Henry and his
brother-in-law Elroy Deszell next door. The two houses built are
currently located at 3111 and 3115 Garden St., Royal Oak. The house tent
was said to have existed on the lot currently occupied by 3115 Garden.
It was while living in the garage noted above that Harvey's fifth child,
Bernadette May Dusseau, was born on 25 May 1923, as the writer's mother
has an image of holding her infant ister in this garage.
In 1923 he moved to two flats above the Hardware Store he bought at 3458
Oakwood Blvd., now 12 Mile Road. Eventually he rented the flat out over
the store and moved his family to an apartment behind the hardware
store, which he enlarged for this purpose. He remained here until 1928.
The Berkley City directories which begin in 1925, note in the 1925-26
and 1927-28 directory, the existence of the Harvey J. Dusseau Hardware
at the above address. This hardware store was torn down and is now
occupied by a bowling alley.
On 8 January 1925, his fourth child, Blanche Eleanore Dusseau died of
diptheria while living behind the Hardware store on Oakwood Blvd. Two
years later, while still living in the same quarters, Harvey's sixth
child, Rose Mary Madeleine Dusseau was born on 13 July 1927.
In 1928 he moved for about six months to a hardware store located on
Meyers, near West Chicago, in Detroit and lived with his family behind
the store. The writer's mother went to McKenzie H.S. for six months at
this time.
Harvey's seventh child, Joseph Raymond Susseau, was born on Oxctober 29,
1928.
In 1929-30, the Polk City Directories indicate he lived at the Hardware
Store located at 20307 Fenkell (5 Mile Rd) in Detroit. Again the family
lived in quarters behind the store.
During the Bank Crash, Harvey lost $200-300 he had in a bank and moved
back to Berkley.
In 1930-31 he lived again behind his hardware store on Oakwood Blvd.
From 1931-36 he rented three homes at 3303 and 3331 Garden and a third
on Oakshire in Berkley.
On 17 March 1936, Harvey's eighth and last child, Patrick James Dusseau
was born.
Two months later, on 8 May 1936, Harvey purchases his first home at 1455
Dorothea in Berkley for $2,200 on a land contract. While living in this
house, he raised it up and dug a basement for it and then raised the
roof to build an upper flat for renters.
On 19 April 1944 Gertrude Sarah LaVoy Dusseau, Harvey's long suffering
wife of 32 years died of a post-operative embolism, having lived in her
first permanent home since her marriage for only eight years. Much of
that eight years spent in renovations described above.
On 29 July 1947, Harvey and his second wife, Alice Marie Fortin, sold
the house on Dorothea. He had married her about six months after the
death of his first wife.
Four days later, on 2 August 1947 Harvey and his second wife purchased
the home at 8228 Brace in Detroit. On the day they moved in the writer
remembers being startled by his Uncle Patrick Dusseau riding on his
bicycle into the writer's front yard at 6461 Mead, in Dearborn, several
miles away down Warren Avenue to announce they had moved into the new
home.
On 7-25-49 Harvey purchased three lots 638. 639. and 640, on a dirt road
which is now Beech-Daly Road in Redford, MI, and built with his own
hands a cinder block house now located at 13965 Beech-Daly. During a
rainy muddy fall he built his home where his second wife died.
Harvey made the purchase of another property in Redford for his tool
shop, located a block or two north of Plymouth Road, west of Telegraph,
at 12060 Woodbine. The property is now incorporated within a larger
structure built by subsequent owners.
On 8 April 1950, Harvey and his wife, Alice, sold the property at 8228
Brace to his step-son Harry W. Fortin and his wife Ramona.
On 21 May 1950 he sold the tool shop to another party
On the same day he sold his Beech-Daly home and two side lots to his
step-son as well.
After his second wife died, Harvey Joseph Dusseau moved almost
immediately, some time in 1950 to the Watts area of Los Angeles, CA,
where he died of cancer on 11 December 1951 at the age of 61 years, 11
months and 6 days. His body was returned to Michigan for burial in Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, 25800 Ten Mile Road, Southfield, next to his first
wife, Gertrude LaVoy, sect. 16, lot 215, tier 1, graves 1 and 2.
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