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Jacques Menard dit LaFontaine and Catherine Fortier were married in Trois Rivieres, Quebec on Nov 19, 1657. Their daughter Marie Menard married Jacques Bourdon, son of Jean and Marguerite (Legris) Bourdon of Normandy, France, who had immigrated to Quebec in the mid-1600s. Four generations after Marie and Jacques, their descendant Rosalie Bourdon married Charles Vary, and their son Moyse/Moise Vary immigrated to the US with his family just before the 1870 census of ND. They were among the first families of a settlement named Oakwood, about 1 mile east of Grafton, ND. It still exists today, though it is a very small town, and the church (still in use) can be seen from the highway on the right hand side as you are traveling west towards Grafton from I-29. The settlement was mostly French Catholic, with a few Irish Catholic families attending church there in the first few years.
Descendents of Jacques Menard dit LaFontaine and Catherine Fortier
m. Nov 19, 1657 in Trois Rivieres.
Marie Menard m. Jacques Bourdon
Feb 8, 1671 or 1672 in Bourcherville, Chambly Cty, Quebec
Joseph Francois Bourdon m. Marie Catherine Bleau
Nov 28, 1719 in Montreal, Quebec
Joseph Francois Bourdon m. Marie Pelagie Charron
Feb 19, 1747 or 1748
Francois Bourdon m. Charlotte Ste-Marie
Feb 15, 1790 in Longueuil, Quebec
Rosalie Bourdon m. Charles Vary
in St. Remi?, Quebec
Moyse/Moise Vary m. Phebee Esther Laroche
Feb 2, 1858 in Ste. Isidore, Laprairie, Quebec
Joseph Philias Vary m. Mary Poole
April 23, 1883 in Oakwood, Walsh Cty, ND
Mary Lily (Lillian Josephine) Vary m. Arthur Nicolai Nelson
Nov 25, 1919 in Stephen Catholic Church, Marshall Cty, MN
Marian Thelma Nelson m. George John Gryskiewicz
Oct 29, 1946 in Stephen Catholic Church, Marshall Cty, MN
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