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 1876 - 1921 (45 years)
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| Name |
Franklyn Henry LaVoy |
| Born |
20 Apr 1876 |
Monroe Co., Whiteford Twp., MI  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
16 Sep 1921 |
Deadwood, SD |
| Buried |
Pine Slope Cemetery, Belle Fourche, SD |
| Person ID |
I00107 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
Toussaint LaVoy, b. 1 Nov 1836, Erie, MI , d. 24 Feb 1911, Erie, MI (Age 74 years) |
| Mother |
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 |
| Family ID |
F0064 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Franklin LaVoy was a hunchback, according to his fist cousin, Frederick LaVoy. Franklin came with his father back to Erie, Michigan in December, 1910, where his father Toussaint LaVoy died of pneumonia two months later.
Franklin did not marry. Family legend and pictures suggest he suffered from severe kyphosis ("hunchback") The 1905 State Census for SD lists him as a Register of Deeds in Brule Co, SD, a position he held for years. The 1905 Census indicates that he was 28 years old and living in Chamberlain, SD.
The Census indicates that he came with his family at the age of 8 to SD in 1885.
Mrs Lyle LaVoy indicates that he filed a successful homestead claim in West Point Twp.
For a number of years Franklin was in Texas trying his luck at finding oil.
He was the manger of the F.H. LaVoy Land Co. in 1910, according to one of his fathr's obituaries.
He was a member of the Deadwood Lodge of B.P.O.E. for many years.
Franklin also graduated from Sioux Falls Business School as an accountant receiving high praise in a Sioux Falls paper, dated October 3, 1904, from the President of the college, G.C. Christopherson.
Franklin LaVoy died September 16, 1921 in Deadwood, SD, in St. Joseph's Hospital.
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