The Lague Gazette

From Alberta: E-mail: [email protected]

I do not have much information on Peter Zepher Chevalier who married my great grandmother Melanese LaGue. I was hoping that some of our Canadian relatives who live in the Sutton area might come up with some answers for me.

Peter's father was Edward Chevalier - wife unknown, but I do have a picture of Edward and his wife. They were in the area of Sutton, or at that time it may have been called Sutton Flat, Canada.

From what I can understand Edward & Peter owned a foundry, it was either Brass or Iron. The remains of the foundry are still there from some information I have received about five years ago.

If there is a grave stone in the area with the name of Peter Zepher Chevalier, I would love to have the date of birth and the date of death. What I do have is the year of death, as 1875. Again my understanding was that Peter died at an early age from an epidemic.

Thanks for any help you may give.

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From Shaynee: "Just call me the web mistress!!!! I have been busy learning "html talk"
(grrrrooaaannn) with LOTS of help from my dad....I am doing a site for our business and will soon start one for Kindercourt. In my spare time (LOL) I got our Stevens Family webpage up and running.....we are going to link it to our adoption agency's page, so that prospective birthmoms could see it......please check it out, and feel free to pass it along to
anyone that might be able to help us in our "baby search"!!! :) There is also a little geneaolgy there..... that's another project for my spare time!!!! [Everyone must have read this earlier in email, but I thought it was worth including here, too. I know how much work it is to create web pages! Shaynee's familty page can be viewed at http://members.aol.com/shayneelyn/ ~ Vicki]

These scans are of the letter from Augustus to Peter. The transcript of this letter appeared in the May issue of The Gazette. his is a wonderful document! Thanks, Barb, for sending it along for the rest of us to enjoy. ~ Vicki

From Al and Barb:. ". . . the Leon Lague home across the road from the school [see the June issue] . . . . we have been told that the Lague house has been moved to Highgate, Vermont by an Aiken family member. One of Leon sons, Narcisse, married a Mabel Aiken of Mansonlville which is approximately 10 miles from Rieter Brook."

From Alberta [left]:"Dominique Stanislaus LaGue's second wife, Josephine Compton. She would be Jim's grandmother."Happy 4th of July! Have a safe holiday!

From Alberta: This is a picture of Horace Andrew Hawkins the second husband of Melanese (LaGue) Chevalier Hawkins. From Jim Lague's notes: Horace Andrew Hawkins was born July 29, 1859 in Hancock, New York. Died December 22, 1922 in Richmond, California. The wedding date of Horace Andrew Hawkins and Melanese has not been found. On February 9, 1891 a son Horace Leon was born at Sisson, California. In 1923 the name of Sisson was changed to Mt. Shasta City, California. Melanese and Horace Andrew are shown in the 1900 U.S. Census of Forbestown, California as being married 13 years, so they must have gotten married around 1887-8.

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