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 1839 - 1911 (71 years)
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| Name |
Ralph ("Raphael") James Jarvis |
| Born |
8 Mar 1839 |
Montreal, (St. Philippe de la Prairie?) Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Jan 1911 |
Holy Redeemer Parish, Detroit, MI |
| Buried |
16 Jan 1911 |
Rockwood, Wayne Coutny, MI |
| Person ID |
I03221 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
16 Jul 2013 |
| Father |
Joseph Gervais, II, b. 1809, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada , d. 26 May 1882, Old Port, Monroe County, MI (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Sophie LaMarre, b. Abt 1809, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada , d. Abt 1885, Monroe County (?), MI (Age 76 years) |
| Married |
9 Nov 1829 |
St. Philippe de LaPriarie, Quebec, Canada |
| Family ID |
F1369 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Trombley, b. 15 Jan 1840, Monroe, MI , d. 8 Jan 1906, St. Mary's Parish, Pinckney, MI (Age 65 years) |
| Married |
27 Jan 1862 |
St. Charles, Newport, MI |
| Children |
| + | 1. Francis Xavier Jarvis, b. 2 Jun 1863, Berlin Township, S. Rockwood, MI , d. 27 Mar 1929, cause: intestial nephritis; burial: Holy Cross Cem, 8850 Dix, Detroit, MI (Age 65 years) |
| + | 2. John Albert Jarvis, b. 14 Feb 1866, S. Rockwood,Berlin Townshsip, Monroe Co., MI , d. 29 Dec 1943, Burial:St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Ecorse, MI (Age 77 years) |
| + | 3. Esther Mary Jarvis, b. 27 May 1868, Berlin Twp. near S. Rockwood. , d. 9 Jun 1894, Rockwood, MI (burial in Rockwood) (Age 26 years) |
| + | 4. 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) |
| + | 5. William Jarvis, b. 20 Nov 1872, Berlin Twp, MI , d. 1947, burial: Holy Sepulchre, 25800 W. 10 Mile Rd, Southfield, MI (Age 74 years) |
| + | 6. Mary Anna Jarvis, b. 22 Aug 1874 |
| + | 7. Mary Alice Jarvis, b. 27 Sep 1877, Berlin Township, near S. Rockwood, MI , d. 1906 (Age 28 years) |
| | 8. Mary Celena "Alvina" Jarvis, b. 23 Oct 1879, d. 1893, of diphtheria, age 12. (Age 13 years) |
| | 9. Charles J. Jarvis, b. 13 Apr 1882, d. Mar 1968, MI 48085 (Age 85 years) |
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| Family ID |
F0190 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- The following is taken from Talcott Wing's 1890 edition of The Histroy of Monroe County, Michigan, pg 10, back of the book;
Ralphael Jarvis, better known as "James" Jarvis, is the son of joseph and Sophia (LaMoire, actually "Lamarre") was born in Montreal, Quebec, March 8, 1839. He came to Detroit in 1848 (In his brother Adolph's entry in Wing, he also states 1848, although Ralph's son Charles Jarvis says his father was 12 on arrival in the US. Son Charles must be in error by this evidence. His father was only about nine years old.) and after remaining (in Detroit) for a year moved to Berlin. Janaury 27, 1862, hemarried Mary, daughter of John and Marianne (Beaumier) Trombley. Their children are; Frank, born June 2, 1863; John Albert, February 14, 1866; Esther mary, May 27, 1868; Matilda Mary, January 26, 1870, William, November 20, 1872; Mary Anna, August 22, 1874; Mary Alice, September 27, 1877; Mary Celena ("Alvina"), October 23, 1879; Chartie (for Charlie or Charles) D., April 13, 1882.
William Stein loaned Ralph Jarvis the money to build the brick house on Ready Rd., the first of its kind in Berlin Township.According to his son Charles Jarvis, Ralph Jarvis grew wheat, corn, and oats on his South Rockwood farm on Ready Rd. He built the brick house on Ready Rd. in 1881. It was still standing in the 1960's. There is a picture of this house in the family papers.
Ralph like children a great deal and built a swing on his farm for the neighborhood children which his was a relief to his neighbors who did not like noisy children.
But according to Charles Jarvis, by 1894, when he was 12 years old, the family was forced to give up the house, because of a heavy mortgage placed on the home by Charles' older brother, Francis Xavier Jarvis.
The family moved to the Delray section of Southwest Detroit on Springwells St., selling the family farm at considerable loss. Their home was bought from a man named Lowrie.
Ralph had no job at first when he came to Detroit. He may have worked for one summer helping to clear Belle Isle for a park. He then worked at Solway Process, perhaps as a foreman, for most of his stay in Detroit.
According to Charles Jarvis, the old State Fairgrounds were in back of Ralph's house before they moved to 8 Mile and Woodward. When the Fairgrounds were torn down for Solway Process, the company provided teams of horses and charged $1.00 a load to haul the lumber away. It was later used for firewood, although it was good white lumber.
According to A.J. Larabell in his June 27, 1964 statement to Patrick L. Tombeau, Solway sponsored the Fairon on unused land adjacent ot Ralph Jarvis' property. Ralph may have been a supervisor in building the Fair grounds. Later these buildigns were torn down and Ralph Jarvis filled one of his vacant lots with the wood.
Entries from the Detroit City Directory for 1894 to 1904 indicate variously that a James R, James, or Ralph Jarvis occupied a house on the west side of Spring wells Ave., one block south of Fort St. It is likely that in 1904 or early 1905 that Ralph moved to Pinckney, MI. In these entries he is listed as a laborer.
At the urging of his sons William and John, Ralph then gave up city life and moved to the Chilson Farm in Pinckney, purchased from a Doctor. according to his son Charles. It consisted of 180 acres. On this farm Ralph grew oats, barley, wheat, and corn. After his wife, Mary Trombley Jarvis died, January 8, 1908, she was buried at St. Mary's in Pinckney and Ralphmoved back to Detroit to Holy Redeemer Parish where he died Jan 13, 1911, scarecely three years after his wife. He is buried in South Rockwood.
His son Charles was the last of the Jarvis Family to live in the Pinckney home. Three years after he moved out, it burnt to the ground. In the 1960's he pointed the site out to Patrick L. Tombeau. It had returned to wilderness by that point.
1870 Berlin Township, Monroe Co., MI, Census
Ralph Jarva, age 31, born Canada
Mary (Trombley), age 30, born Michigan
Frank Jarvah, age 7. born in Michigan
Albert (John), age 5, born in Michigan
Esther, age 2, born in Michigan
Matilda, 4/12, born in Michigan
In Ralph's entry is Emma Seymour, age 23, born in Michigan, probably a servant
girl.
!880 Berlin Township, MI, Federal Census, entry 295-295:
Jarvah, James, 41, Farmer, born in Canada as were parents
Mary (Trombley), 40, wife, born in michigan, prents in Canada Father was born in Canada, Mother in Dwetroit, MI)
Frank, 17, son works on farm,
John 14, son, works on farm
Esther, 12, deaughter, at school
Matilda, 11, daughter, at school
William 9, son,
Anna,5, daughter
Alice, 3, daughter
Salina, 8/12, daughter
From an obituary, probably the Monroe Evening News, dated January 12, 1911, held by his niece, Minnie Trombley Mercure, of Newport, MI in the 1960's.
"Died January 12, 1911:
"Mr. Raphiel Jarvis died at his son's residence on Dix Ave,, Detroit, after a short illness of pneumonia and had his funeral services at St. mary's Church, Rockwood (MI) last Monday. he was formerly a resident of this place and South Rockwood (MI). He was married to Mary Trombley of this place (Oldport, MI) in 1863 and made their home in Oldport a few years, then settled on a farm at South Rockwood, also conducted a brick yard in connection, which he exchanged a few years ago to A. Bondy for city property in Detroit. His wife died five years ago, leaving four sons and two daughters, several relatives and friends of this place and Rockwood."
Charles Jarvis, son of Ralph Jarvis, stated that his brother Francis X was responsible for the loss of the Berlin Township South Rockwood farm of his father Ralph Jarvis because of the heavy mortgages he had built up against it.
A. J. Larabell also stated that Ralph Jarvis ran a basket company and that at one point he recieved two orders from from a Toledo firm and when he was not paid, he went to the firm to discover his son Francis was employed there. (as no trace of a basket farm has been found at this writing and Ralph's obituary indicates he owned a brick factory, it is possible this is the actual business involved in the above anecdote.)
The following may lead credence to the above land dealings. They were researched by A.J. Larabell:
April 1, 1885: Sophia Jarvis ) deeds land to her grandson, Francis X. Jarvis:
two 25 acre parcels are involved. later that year Francis sells the land back to his father, Ralph Jarvis. Francis is noted as a single man in the deed.
The earlier history of this land indicates that Sophia's husband, Joseph Jarvis II, bought 80 acres of land in 1865 from Mr. Wallace for $700 in the township of Berlin, section 22.
Ralph sold his farm in 1894 and moved to Detroit on Spring wells Ave.
From the Monroe County Deeds:
March 21, 1894, Ralph jarvis sold 40 acres of land to Antoine Bondi and 15 acres top William Steiner (arelative of Aj. Larabell's wife) for $3500, $3060 of which went to pay off the mortgageand $60 for back taxes. Thus only $350 was realized form the Sooth Rockwood farm and brick house. Thus the approximate date of departure in 1894 is known from this deed.
A.J. Larabell continues his narrative to state that Ralph Jarvis remained in Detroit for 10 years until 1904 when he trades his city property for the Chilson Farm near Pinckney, MI. Ralph Jarvis and his wife and Chalres lived in front of the farm house and and his son John and family klived in the rear of the house. In about 1910-11, his son Charles Jarvis drives his father off the Chilson Farm through his chattel mortgages with nothing behind them. Charles remains on the farm for a couple of more years.
Ralph lives with the Larabell's for awhile, dying there of grief within a few months. The obituary above suggests that he went to a son's home in his final days.
Mr. A. J. Larabell sums up the the dates of Raphael James Jarvis as follows:
1839: born in Montreal, or more likely the nearby country parish of St. Philippe de la Prairie.
1839-1848: living in Montreal of the above country parish of St. Philippe.
1848-49: Ralph comes with his parents and siblings to U.S. as a 9 year old boy and lives first in Detroit for a year, then in Monroe County.
1849-1862: Lives in Monroe County with his parents and siblings.
January 27, 1862: marries Mary Trombley, daughter of John Baptist Trombely and Mary Baumier of Oldport, MI
1861-65: American Civil War. Does not serve. See elsewhere for this episode.
Three of his brothers are soldiers at one point: Jospeh, Octave, and
Issac.
1862-1881: lives in log cabin on Ready Rd. in Berlin Township, Monroe Co., MI.
1881-1894: lives across the street from the log cabin in the brick house he built,
the first of its kind in Berlin Township. This may be the period that he owned a brickyard.
1894-1904: Sells the farm and lives on Springwells St. in the Woodmere Section of Detroit, MI.
1904-1910: trades city property for Chilson Farm near Pinckney Michigan.
January 8, 1908: wife Mary Trombley dies and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Pinckney, MI.
1910-11: forced off proeprty at Chilson by son Charles financial dealings, lives briefly with son-in-law, Joseph Larabell in Toledo, OH.
Janaury 13, 1911: dies of pnuemonia in his son's home on Dix Ave, Detroti, and buried in the Sputh Rockwood, St. Mary Cemetery.
Statements of Charles Jarvis, youngest child and son of Ralph James Jarvis, given to Patrick L. Tombeau in the 1960's:
Ralph Jarvis came fron Canda when he was 12 years old. (The data in Wing's 1890 History of Monroe County suggests age 9)
On of Ralph's brothers was Joseph.
Ralph's father (Joseph Jarvis) may have been a bear-trapper.
His mother, Mary Anne Trombley and her mother (Mary Baumier) were brought up among the Indians on Point Mouille, Berlin Twp., Monroe Co., MI., a jut of land into Lake Erie. The Black hawk Indians were their neighbors. Charles' maternal grandmother (Mary Baumier) nursed an old Inidan Chief's wife back to health from stab wounds. But the Chief got drunk again and killed both his wife and child.. The government sent an agent in to arest the Indian. He was given a trial and subsequently hung.
Charles' grandmother (Mary Baumier) used to feed the Indians and had come to like the chief's wife very well.
Charles Jarvis' mother (Mary Trombley) was born in a log cabin with five or six rooms and two floors. (See Moses Trombley entry for a description of this log cabin. Moses was Mary Trombleys brother).
When Charles Jarvis was a boy he slept in his maternal grandparent's log cabin
one winter night, only to wake up to find snow on his second floor bed.
Charles also stated that his brothers Will and John and their father Ralph helped clear Belle Isle (about 1894) with teams of horses. Will once caught a snake on the island and tied it to the basck of their wagon. Will also may have driven a team to cinder Grand Blvd. (Historical Note: prior to being called Belle Isle, the island was called from French times Ile aux Cochons, or Hog Island, because pigs were put on it to kill the snakes.)
Charles Jarvis states that his brother's and sister were born in a one room log cabin across from the brick house on Ready Road in Berlin Twp., Monroe Co., MI., built by his father in 1881. But Charles was born in the brick house.
Charles Jarvis states that the family moved to the Del Ray section of Detroit when he was twelve years old (1894). This move was made for a trade of the South Rockwood farm for city property on Springwells Ave. (See above for the forced sale of this farm with little profit). The move was made at the vbeginning of Grover Cleveland's second term to office of the president of the U.S. Charles further describes the proeprty in Detroit as follows: Ralph had property where the Terminal is (4 lots and 2 houses on Springwells St.) and one house and 1 lot on Westend where Fleetwood is. (See Eslewhere in this narrative for the Detroit City Directory listing for Ralph Jarvis. )
Continuing, Charles states that his father traded the city property with a man named Fohey for the Chilson Farm, near Pinckney, MI., in February, 1904. Prior to moving to the Chilson farm, his father Ralph worked at Solvay Process as a foreman in addtion to Belle Isle.
Ralph's wife, Mary Trombley, died on the Chilson farm, of a chronic stomach complaint in Janaury, 1906, which son Charles states was stomach ulcers. She was stout and short like her mother (Mary Baumier), about 5 feeet tall.
Charles Jarvis states that his father Ralph was 5'7" or 8" tall, stout, well-built, and quick-tempered. he died in 1911 of pneumonia.
During the Civil War, Charles states that his father was reparing the roof of his South Rockwood one room log cabin whentwo men came to induct him into the Civil War. Ralph's wife, Mary Trombley, frightened by the men, screamed, which so frightened Ralph tha he fell off the roof and was unable to join because of his injuries. (See his borthers Isaac, Joseph, and Octave's entries for their Civil War records)
Earlier in this narrative, Charles Jarvis acknowledged that his father Ralph had two brothers, Joseph and Adolph, the latter marrying the sister of his wife Mary Trombley, Margaret Trombley. On July 12, 1964, he attempted again to list his patrnal uncles and aunts. In addtion to again affirming the existence of Joseph and Adolph, he started a third uncle, whose name he could not recall, died in the Civil War and that the body was shipped to Battle Creek or Grand Rapids and that Charles' fathr, Ralph picked up the body and brought it back home for burial. (This is Isaac, who died in training at Grand rapids, MI, See his entry).
He stated that his father had two sisters: One was named Fanny who married a (Frank) Messcott (Mexico) (See Euprhosine Jarvis entry)
Charles could not recall name of his father's othe sister. He believed sh married a Duprey, that she died young and that the husband then moved away to the Dakotas with the two children, but the daughter may have come back later. (Elsewhere I have speculated that this seond sister was named Mary or Mary Esther, and that she nmarried John Massicott, brother of her sister Fanny's husband, Frank. Marriage records of St. Mary's South Rockwood, or St. Charles, Newport should be examined to verify these possibilities. Further the Duprey mentuioned may atually referr to Dupree, SD, where John may have moved.
- Well, I think it well established by several sources that Ralph was buried in South Rockwood and since he was a practicing Catholic it would have to be in the only Catholic cemetery in South Rockwood, that is St. Mary's.
If these statements are correct, we should offer your correspondent at Holy Redeemer some remuneration to check the funeral records from their beginning point in 1880 to his death in 1911, 31 years altogether, to see if the Jarvis family name comes up for any burials in South Rockwood. If the graves are marked, then we are a step closer to finding a possible burial plot, since many families bought more than a single plot. This research might yield the death dates of his four children who died of diphtheria.You have a date for this article you found at Monroe Genealogical Library.
The one drawback from you not seeing the records personally is that we know the married names of several Jarvis women and Holy Redeemer staff does not. It would probably be best the first time around just to ask for a canvas of the Jarvis name in 31 years of funeral records.
----- Original Message -----
From: Germaine
To: Patrick Tombeau ; Joann Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:51 PM
Subject: Fwd: Raphael Jarvis's Death Information
Greetings......
We received a reply from Holy Redeemer Parish, where Raphael was a member. They have the same information! Nothing new! Very frustrating, to say the least.
We will find Raphael one day.............
Jon and I hope you are all doing well. We look forward to more adventures with you........
Take care.....
Germaine and Jon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Geraldina Hernandez
Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Subject: Raphael Jarvis's Death Information
To: "hawaiialoha24@gmail.com"
Good morning Germaine, Bishop Hanchon asked to look for the information you are looking for and this is what I found: Our sacramental records starts on the1880 so we don't have any records before that, the only thing I found on him was his burial information and this is the way it is entered in the book:
Raphael Jarvis died on January 13, 1911 and was buried on January 16, 1911 in Rockwood, MI, but it doesn't give the name of the cemetery, it also says that he was born in Canada, he was 72 years old when he died and he died of Pneumonia; that it all we have, and to answer your question about people researching in the record? the answer is no because there are confidential information that only Church authorized staff can look at it. I hope this help you a little, if you should have any questions or want me to check more, please feel free to e-mail me. God Bless.
Geraldina Hernandez
Holy Redeemer Parish
I have the Strength for everything
through Him who empowers me.
Philippians 4:13
Sin El, nada soy, pero con El todo
lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
Filipences 4:13
- HI all....
Thank you for forwarding the information from Heinz.....
Guess what?
Chris Kowal sent me a huge file of information, also! I sent it you
in October 2010.... At the time, I wasn't sure how much of it was
accurate, as I didn't have the actual documents in hand. I can dig
it up and send it again.... It's a very large file....
Please see my email to you all, below, from October 2010......
Will look through everything again and see if I can track her down. I
heard from her a few times, then she dropped out of sight.
Was there an attachment to your email, Patrick? I didn't receive
it...... Please send it again....
How is your new Dell computer working?
Will keep you posted.
Much aloha! October 6 is one month away!
Germaine
On 10/2/10, Germaine wrote:
> *Hi again....*
> **
> *Chris Kowal sent me quite a bit of information on the Gervais/Jarvis and
> Vachon/Vashaw lines last year.. I'm not sure that all of her information
> is accurate, and I'm not certain that she documents all of her sources.*
> **
> *Patrick, I remember last year that you cautioned me about some of the
> information found on web sites..... *
> **
> *Chris Kowal made a correction to her information regarding Amelia
> Jarvis......You have to click on another link in the string of messages....
> *
> **
> *Here it is:*
> **
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> *Re: Gervais/Jarvis in Monroe County, Michigan* *Posted by: *Christine
> Kowal <http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-genforum/email.cgi?282253657> (ID
> *****3657) *Date: *August 21, 2007 at 11:50:15 *In Reply to: *Re:
> Gervais/Jarvis in Monroe County,
> Michigan<http://genforum.genealogy.com/gervais/messages/944.html>by
> Christine Kowal of
> 998
> *Correction:
> Aurelie Marie-Anne Gervais was not the daughter of Joseph Gervais and
> Sophie
> Lamarre. Rather, she was the daughter of Joseph Gervais amd Sophie
> Sulte-Vadeboncoeur of Trois Rivieres.
> Chris
> *
>
- Bonsoir......
Jon and I hope you are all doing well.
Good news! Today, I received three certified copies of Raphael's death certfiicate! Haven't received Mary's yet... As soon as Mary's arrives, I will send both certificates to you.
Cause of death: La Grippe (It is spelled that way!)
Contributory: Congestion of Lungs
Place of burial or removal: Rockwood, Michigan (NO CEMETERY LISTED We're still left wondering!!)
Date of burial: January 16, 1911
Funeral director: T.P. Sullivan
I looked up Sullivan funeral home and found this website:
http://obriensullivanfuneralhome.com/history.html
I just sent them an email to see if they have more detailed records on Raphael, and I will also call them later in the week.
So.......................the mystery continues. There is only one cemetery in Rockwood, to my knowledge: St. Mary's/Mt. Calvary!
Warm regards to you from Jon and me........
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