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 1836 - 1911 (74 years)
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| Name |
Toussaint LaVoy |
| Born |
1 Nov 1836 |
Erie, MI  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
1 Nov 1836 |
| Died |
24 Feb 1911 |
Erie, MI |
| Cause: pneumonia |
| Buried |
Pine Slope Cemetery, Belle Fourche, SD |
| Person ID |
I00053 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
Charles LaVoy, Sr., b. 10 Aug 1809, Detroit, Mi , d. 4 Sep 1858, Erie Twp, MI (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Catherine Robidou, b. 25 Nov 1814, St. Antoine, River Raisin, MI , d. Aft 1860, Erie, MI (Age > 47 years) |
| Married |
18 Oct 1831 |
Erie, MI (St. Joseph Catholic Church) |
| Family ID |
F0040 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Marcelline LaPointe, b. 21 Jan 1841, Bedford Twp., MI , d. 3 Mar 1911, Meade Co., SD (Age 70 years) |
| Married |
17 Oct 1858 |
Monroe Co., MI |
| Children |
| | 1. Christopher LaVoy, b. 21 May 1862, Monroe County, MI , d. Abt 1864, Monroe Co., MI (Age 1 years) |
| | 2. Amelia ("Millie") Alice LaVoy, b. 28 Dec 1863, Monroe Co., MI. , d. 3 Sep 1942, Chamberlain, S.D. (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. Johnnie LaVoy, b. 15 Nov 1866, Monroe Co., MI , d. Abt 1868, Monroe Co., MI (Age 1 years) |
| + | 4. Vollie Toussaint LaVoy, b. 25 Aug 1870, Monroe Co., MI , d. 31 Mar 1957, Chamberlain, SD (Age 86 years) |
| + | 5. Charles Cyril LaVoy, b. 9 Nov 1873, Monroe, Co., MI , d. 14 Feb 1930, Custer, Brule Co, SD (Age 56 years) |
| | 6. Franklyn Henry LaVoy, b. 20 Apr 1876, Monroe Co., Whiteford Twp., MI , d. 16 Sep 1921, Deadwood, SD (Age 45 years) |
| + | 7. Eunice Mary LaVoy, b. 30 May 1880, Monroe Co., MI , d. 7 May 1959, Yakima, WA (Age 78 years) |
| | 8. George Alvin LaVoy, b. 21 Nov 1882, Monroe Co., MI , d. 2 Mar 1954, Slayton, OR (Age 71 years) |
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| Family ID |
F0064 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Obituaries indicte that Toussaint and his family came to SD in 1885 from Monroe County, MI. His son Vollie's obit indicates they settled near Bijou Falls and Cahmberlain. Toussaint died in the house he was born in which at that time was owned by his brother Francis in Erie, MI. This home was originally Charles LaVoy Sr.'s homestead.
On December 27, 1910, he left Belle Fourche, S.D., age 74, in the company of his son, Franklin, to visit his brothers in Erie, Michigan, where he caught double lobar pneumonia and died two months later.
While Toussaint and his family first settled near Chamberlain SD, two years before his death settled on a ranch in Hoover, SD, near Belle Fourche. He is buried with his wife in Pine Slope Cemetery in the latter city. A photograph of the cemetery site exists in the photo collection and pictures of his family's log cabin and family. Rollie Knaggs states that Toussaint paid Dennis Knaggs (Rollie's older brother) $50 for the wagon Toussaint took his family in to South Dakota.
He is described a s a family man, kind to all, and without an enemy (See several obits for other details)
One obituary from a Monroe County paper contains a poem on his passing:
"Sisters, brothers, friends so dear
Father's spirit has flown to a brighter sphere.
No more on earth will we have him to love;
For God has called him to that home above.
God's ways we do not understand,
His wisdom we do not command,
God's purposes we do not know:
This is not given to man below.
Twas hard to part with one so dear,
We could not, would not check the rising tear
We've met him so oft in times of yore,
Must it be now we'll meet him no more?
No, this can not be for God has said
A crown of glory waits the victor's head.
We may meet him, yes, on that better shore,
Meet him in Heaven where parting is no more.
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