The Lague Gazette

Queries

Forwarded by Shaynee:
Hi,

I'm looking for information about Alexis Lague who lived in Opelousa, Louisiana between 1830 and 1860. Alexis married Laeticia Rolain on January 26th, 1846, St-Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA. They probably had 3 sons and a daughter there. Do you have more information about them, there parents and there children?

Thank you to check.

Martin Lague
Bioinformatician
Solanum Genomics International Inc.
P.O. Box 636, Station "A"
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5A6
CANADA

phone: 506-460-5639M
fax: 506-460-5673
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Forwarded by Vicki:
Hi Vicki,

I found your newsletter while doing some genology searching for my mom and her sister. If I have it right . . . Lon Lague (mentioned in a back edition) would have been brother to her great grandfather in Quebec.

Anyways . . . any information you have on the Lague family tree would be very helpful . . . and anything my mom might have that would of interest to you let me know.

Elaine Reynard
[email protected]

From Marilyn:

This is a Ponton cousin endeavor; Linda scanned the copy of Aunt Roseanna Ponton Francoeur-Hart from the Turton, SD Centennial Book, published 1986; Ila furnished the story and I am the messenger. And here is the picture of Aunt Roseanna whose younger sister Mary, my grandmother, closely resembles.

Roseanna is the eldest child born to Noel Ponton and Celina-Adeline Lemaire Ponton in Rouville, PQ, Canada. Noel Ponton's mother was Catherine Lague who died in L'Erable, Iroquois County, IL. To lessen your confusion, the Francoeurs changed their surname to Hart sometime after settling in America.

Ila wrote the preface and in quotations are the letters she received from her Aunt Anna Hart Lambert: And I attest to her statements re: her Aunt Anna, a truly nice, kind lady.

Ila Wrote: Just before Memorial Day this year I had Rosanna's name removed from Lee Hart's headstone, since she is buried at Calgary. I never met her. But there is an interesting and rather sad story about her abandoning her family in SD and going to Canada. She did not leave Aunt Anna with Hart in-laws; she left her with Frank and Leon, Roseanna's two sons. Anna was 12 years old. Leon was 22 and Frank was 34. When Leonard Hart was here one reunion time he wanted to know if I knew why his oldest brother Fred went to Canada from SD. The only remaining one of that generation was Aunt Anna, so I wrote and asked her. I had known and loved Aunt Anna all my life. She died in 1997, was sitting in her rocker and just went to sleep. (To digress - we hear so much about children being misfits coming from dysfunctional families - but not Aunt Anna, she was a meticulous housekeeper, great cook, and always dressed very well,raised six children) She was not a great letter writer, think she missed a lot of school, and never wrote more than half a page but when I asked her about Fred she wrote 5 pages, just opened her memory. And I am going to quote Aunt Anna,

"Yes Lizzie (oldest sister) told me why Fred left home. When my brothers were 16 and 18 years old they worked for people who had sheep & those the mothers didn't own; they took little stray lambs for there pay. Brought them home and soon they had a large flock. Fred wanted to trade his sheep for a couple matched colts. Mother had fits. So he gathered up his cloth and came to ND first. He told her maybe i' see you sometime, then went to Canada. She didnt see him for 22 years.

I was one year old when he left home. When Mother got married again she sold everything. We had a hard time to keep stove beds table and cupboards. She was going to sell the last team of horses. Frank stepped in and said take them back to barn. Then she was going to sell every last cow. But again he stepped in and said this cow stays here. Sell all your sheep if you like. She had about 150 head. Neither Frank >Leon or i cared for sheep. I was only 12 years old at the time. She left me with the boys. And it was 23 years i didnt see her. I was expecting Janice when we went out (fifth child) (to Canada). I all most didn't go - well so much for that."

Ila Continues: We have pictures of Grandma Hart in Canada, she and Peavy lived in Drumheller, and believe she always lived in poverty. When Lorrene and I want to Lomond to visit cousins in 1994, tried to find her home in Drumheller but couldn't.

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Drumheller is in Alberta, Canada. The Noel Ponton family accompanied by 4 children removed to Morinville, Alberta Canada sometime after 1900. Their picture taken in their very old age appears on the Lague website. Roseanna married again after the death of her first husband Leandre (Lee) Francoeur (Hart) in 1915 and removed to Canada and the rest is history.

Am I entitled to boast?? Our granddaughte Sunny Rae McQuillin has a 3.8 grade average at Chapman University, in the City of Orange, CA. We are so very proud of her and I should add; she is not content with that; but striving for a 4.0. She has been invited to join the club for above average students and is overjoyed. Her major is psychology and she has begun analyzing her co-workers and I dread the results when she turns to family members. I should mention she works 3 days a week in a law office along with a full class schedule. O.K. bragging rights are over and way to go Sunny!!

Marilyn :}

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