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 1809 - 1882 (73 years)
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| Name |
Joseph Gervais |
| Suffix |
II |
| Born |
1809 |
LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
26 May 1882 |
Old Port, Monroe County, MI |
| Person ID |
I03751 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
23 Apr 2017 |
| Father |
Etienne Gervais, b. Abt 1770, St. Phillippe/St Constant de la Prairie, Canada (?) , d. 21 Apr 1831, St Constant de la Prairie. Canada (Age 61 years) |
| Mother |
Josette Pinsoneau, b. Abt 1775, St. Constant de la Prairie (?), Canada , d. 25 May 1839, St. Constant de la Prairie, Canada (Age 64 years) |
| Married |
4 Oct 1790 |
St. Constant de la Prairie, Canada |
| Family ID |
F1370 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
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 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Ralph ("Raphael") James Jarvis, b. 8 Mar 1839, Montreal, (St. Philippe de la Prairie?) Canada , d. 13 Jan 1911, Holy Redeemer Parish, Detroit, MI (Age 71 years) |
| + | 2. Adolph\Adolphus Jarvis, b. 26 Sep 1841, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| + | 3. Octave Jarvis, b. 2 Oct 1843, Canada , d. 2 Dec 1911, Mt. Clemens, MI (Age 68 years) |
| + | 4. Joseph Jarvis, III |
| | 5. Isaac Jarvis, b. 1846, Berlin Township, near S. Rockwood, MI , d. 10 Feb 1864, Grand Rapids Army Post Hospital (lung inflmation) (Age 18 years) |
| + | 6. Euphrasine "Fanny" Jarvis, b. 1852 |
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| Family ID |
F1369 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- His marriage to Sophie LaMarre is attested to by records from St. Philippe's, Drouin Institute and by Sophia in her application for pension from her son Isaac's service who died after enlisting to fight in the American Civil War. (See note on Isaac Jarvis/Jervais.
According to A., J. Larabell in his June 27, 1964 statement to Patrick L. Tombeau, Joseph Jariv settled immediately in Old Port, Berlin Township, Monroe County, MI, and lived there from 1849until 1864 on the proceeds of bear hunting or farming another's land and then he bought his South Rockwood farm.
In a document dated 23 February 1883, William Stein who held the $550 mortgage on Joseph and Sophia Jarvis 50 acre farm stated that he would not seek the pension money for the mortgage. (Joseph Jarvis, Sr., had died the previous year).
The death records of Monroe County, pg 185, #97, as recorded in Volume 2, pg. 91, of the published records by the Monroe County Genealogical Society indicate he died of consumption and died in Berlin Township. He was buried in White Cemetery, Newport, Monroe County, MI, with his wife Sophia and son Isaac. All three have small stone markers only identified with their initials near the edge of the road.
According to their grandson, there were two daughters born. One is accounted for as Euphrasine Jarvis who married Frank Massicot/Mexico as Census records indicate, She is referred to as Frazee in the Census, but family members call her "Fanny". The second sister, whose name was unknown to Mr. Jarvis, is supected at this writing to have married Frank's brother John. According to Charles Jarvis, her nephew through her brother Ralph James Jarvis, she died young and her husband moved to the Dakotas with their daughters. Her nephew Charles believed she had married a Duprey, but it is likely that this was an error. There is a town of Dupree, SD, where her husband may have moved after her death with their two children. A daughter was thought to have returned during adulthood, according to Charles Jarvis. Research needs to be done to confirm thse above theories.
There is a birth record of unknown origin in my files, obtained by A.J. Larabell, whose mother was a Jarvis, of a Charles Messicot being born July 16, 1873 to a John M. Messcicott and an Aurelia Gervais. There are no marriage records in South Rockwood's St. Mary's Church of these two marriages.. 1853 is the earliast date of marriages in this parish.
A review of Fr. Christian Denissen's Genealogy of French Families of the Detroit River Region indicates two sons, Francis Xavier and Jean Baptiste were born to Abraham Massicot and Emily Robert in Monroe. (Vol 2, pg 811) in 1852 and 1848 respectively, Counrt abd Church Marriage records should be serched to make the necessary connections to these two sons to the Jarvis sisters. Dennisen carries the further genealogy of the Massicot family to France through Canada.
His grandson, Charles Jarvis, states that Joseph Gervias/Jarvis may have been a bear-trapper. The same source goes on to say that Joseph's original house was a one room log cabin. It no longer existed in the 1960's when Charles Jarvis told Patrick L. Tombeau about it, but he described it as being across the street from the brick house built by Ralph jarvis in 1881 on Ready Rd. in Berlin Twp. and still standing in the 1960's.
The log house was not directly across Ready road, but facing the road from the yard of the brick house to the right of the brick house.
Another house was built on Ready Rd for the family. It was on the opposite side of the street from the brick house and to the left by 500-600 feet. This house was a frame house with a kitchen, sitting room, and two bedrooms on the ground floor, The upstairs was unfinished. It was built for the mother of Ralph Jarvis, Sophia LaMarre Jarvis. She was taken care of by her daughter, Fanny Jarvis Massicot. Frank Massicot claimed to be too crippled to work and Ralph Jarvis "had no patience with the man". (Although Charles Jarvis thought Fanny's husband was John Massicot, he was unsure. Since Frank Massicot remained in the Monroe County Census, it is probably Frank he is referring to. The Census for Berlin Township also indicates the family lived next to Ralph's house.
Joseph Jarvis is buried in White Cemetery.
1850-60-70 Census research was performed on the Jarvis Family by a member of the Dtroit Genealogical Socieity and sent on to Patrick L. Tombeau by A.J. Larabell, whose mother was Esther Jarvis.
There are numerous errors in the Census Data for the early Jarvis/Jarva/Gervais Family, so information obtained from it must be used with caution.
The 1850 Census for Berlin Township indicates an intry for Joseph Jarva and family, so settlement in Berlin Township did occur rapidly after their 1848 arrival in Detroit, as family history in Talcott Wing's Biographies of Ralph nd Adolph Jarvis indicate.
1850 Census:
Joseph Jarva, age 48 (actually 41), born in Canada
Sophia, 1ge 42 (actually 41, born in Canada
Joseph, 15, born in Canada
Sophia, 14, born in Canada
Raphael, 11, born in Canda
Octave, 9, born in Canada
Adolph, 7, born in Canada
Mary, 5, born in Canada
Zahgnet (?), 3, born in Canada
1860 Census:
Joseph Jarva, 50, born Canada
Sophia, age 50, born in Canada
James (Ralph), age 21, born Canada
John (Octave?), age 19, born Canada
Adolph, age 16, born Canada
Mary, age 15, born Canada
Gietz (Isaac?), age 16. bprn Canada
Sophronia, age 10, born Canada (probably an error for Michigan. See previous Census, no Sophronia entry)
Joseph Jarvah, age 36 (actually about 25 from previous census, born in Michigan (error, born in Canada)
Margaret (Trombley), age 43 (actually 22), born in Michigan
There appears from this Census proof of Charles Jarvis' contention that his father Ralph Jarvis had two sisters. See above for further details. Sophronia is probably Euphrosine, Fanny or Frazee. Mary is probably Mary Esther, or Esther Mary, a name carried into the next genration of Ralph Jarvis' Children. See anove for further details about these sisters.
1870 Census:
Joseph Jarva,retired farmer, age 69 (actually 61)
Sophia Jarvah, wife, age 69 (actually 61)
Joseph Jarvah, age 53, probably 35, born in Canada,
Margaret (Trombley), 59 (actually 32), born in Michigan
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.
The following entry cannot be interpreted at this time as family members:
Joseph Jarva, 28, born in Michigan
Maria, 18, born in Michigan
Mary, 2/12, born in Michigan
Orville, age 20, born in Michigan
!880 Berlin Township Federal Census, entry 293-294}:
Jarvah, Joseph, 62, farmer, born in Ireland as were parents (must have been meant as a joke, as he would be a French speaker and was born in Canada)
Sophia, 73, wife, born in Canada as were parents (Actually both Joseph and his wife would have been 71 in 1880)
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 paternal uncles and aunts. In addtion to again affirming the existence of Joseph and Adolph, he stated 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' father, Ralph picked up the body and brought it back home for burial. (This is Isaac Jarvis, 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 other sister. He believed she 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 whouldbe examined to verify these possibilities.
Charles Jarvis, grandson of Joseph Jarvis II, thought the Jarvis name was of French Irish derivation. Complete tracing of the forbears of the name and collateral branches indicate it is of pure French-Candian extraction. This may have been a family joke, as we note that Joseph jarvis/Gervais in the 1180 Federal Census states his parents and he were born in Ireland, when they were all born in Canada, probalby in St. Philippe de la Prairie parish, near Montreal.
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