Sunday Morning – Bertram Victor Lestage

This is Bertram Lestage’s file on my Ancestry tree.

I now think Bertram is this young man on this cabinet card.

This is his mother’s file.

I took me a few years to find all about Flavie Alexandre and more than 10 years to find who was her son Bertram. Bertram Victor Lestage married Diane Page on September 21, 1932 in New York. They had three children according to the 1940 US Census: Charlotte Lestage born around 1934, Bertram Lestage born around 1935, and Constance J Lestage born around 1937.

Bertram Victor Lestage died in 1946, so his children became orphans. No further information about them unless someone is looking for them.

Footnote

About someone looking for his ancestors…

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Sunday Morning – That description fits this picture to a “T”

Earlier I had posted many cabinets cards on Our Ancestors. There was one cabinet card I first thought was Charles Lestage.

Could this young man be instead Bertram Lestage, son of Flavie Alexandre and Charles Lestage? Third cousin Mary had posted this comment on Ancestry three months ago and I never got a notice from Ancestry.

I found this description on a military card for Bertram…

Weight: 140

Complexion: Ruddy

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Brown

Height: 5 4

That description fits this picture to a “T”.

I think Mary might have found Bertram Lestage whose sister was “Sweet Sixteen” Lucille Lestage…

Mary might have found a whole lot more…

Bertram’s descendants through DNA testing!

Now the original post…

I was planning to publish this post later in April, but then, out of the blue, came a message on Ancestry about Pauline Chagnon. What was strange was that Pauline Bernadette Chagnon was the last person I had looked for while checking people who could be related to the cabinet cards I had posted.

So without further ado here is what I had intended to post later in April…

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There are still too many unknown people in the collection of my third cousin Joe from Plainville, Connecticut…

These cabinet cards were scanned in 2012. With this first cabinet card I will have to ask Joe for this one. I think it’s his father.

This second cabinet card I know is Isabelle Marie his father’s sister.

Third cabinet card… No idea who is this little boy… or is it a girl?

Fourth cabinet card: Joe’s maternal grandparents are in front. The young woman in the back is the sister of his maternal grandmother.

Fifth cabinet card: Joe’s maternal grandparents.

Sixth cabinet card: unknown young woman who was most probably living in Bennington, Vermont where some Bleaus were living in the 1880s. It could be Amelia, Olivine or Marie Rose Bleau.

Seventh cabinet card: unknown baby who was most probably living in South Omaha, related to Joe’s maternal grandparents.

Eighth cabinet card: Jean-Baptiste Alexandre, son of Jean-Baptiste Alexandre and Philomene Lagasse. He is the brother of Philomene, Agnes, Myra, Elmire, Flavie, and Helen Alexandre.

Ninth cabinet card: unknown man living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. He could well be related to the Malloys or to the Chagnons.

Tenth cabinet card: Joe’s paternal grandparents

Eleventh cabinet card: Joe’s paternal grandfather

Twelfth Flavie Alexandre, sister of Philomene, Helene, Agnes, Myra, Elmire

Thirteenth cabinet card: No idea…

Fourteenth cabinet card:

Fifteenth cabinet card: No idea…

Sixteenth cabinet card: unknown woman living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. She could well be related to the Malloys or the Bleaus.

Seventeenth cabinet card: unknown woman living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. She could well be one of the Bleau sisters.

Eighteenth cabinet card: unknown woman living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. She could well be related to the Malloys or the Bleaus.

Nineteenth cabinet card: I think it’s a baby related to Joe.

Twentieth cabinet card: No idea…

Twenty-first cabinet card: Marguerite Alexandre, Joe’s paternal great-great-grandmother, and my paternal great-grandmother Henriette Alexandre

Twenty-second cabinet card: This baby could be related to the Bleaus or the Chagnons.

Twenty-third cabinet card: unknown baby living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. He could well be related to the Malloys.

Twenty-fourth cabinet card: unknown man living in New York, Massachusetts. He could well be the father of Lucille Lestage, the daughter of Flavie Alexandre.

Twenty-fifth cabinet card: Possibly Agnes Alexandre, sister of Philomene, Helene, Flavie, Myra, and Elmire.

Twenty-sixth cabinet card: Again this baby girl could be related to the Bleaus or the Chagnons.

Twenty-seventh cabinet card: Myra Alexandre sister of Philomene, Helene, Agnes, Flavie, and Elmire

Twenty-eighth cabinet card: Unknown woman living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. She could well be related to the Malloys. She could be Ada Pendelbury or one of the Bleau sisters.

Twenty-ninth cabinet card: My new found grandaunt’s photo, Malvina Lagacé (Lagasse)

Thirtieth cabinet card: unknown woman living in Adams, Massachusetts, Parsons photographer. She could be related to the Bleaus or the Malloys.

Sunday morning – Just trying to preserve the past and controlling this obsession…

I think I will be able to preserve the past and controlling this obsession for old pictures and identifying who’s who…

Thank you for preserving the past.

To be continued next Sunday…

Memorial Day – A Tribute To The Crew Of The U.S.S. Bullhead (SS-332)

On Memorial Day we remember my second cousin Robert Ritchie

On Eternal Patrol

On Memorial Day we remember what Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur rose in the House of the Representatives in 1997…

By Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, although the end of the Second World War occurred over a half-century ago, Americans still honor and continue to remember the hundreds of thousands of men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in this, the greatest conflict of all human history.

I would like to take this time to honor the brave men who served on the U.S.S. Bullhead (SS-332). The U.S.S. Bullhead was the last major vessel lost by the United States in World War II, and with it went the lives of 84 American sailors.

On August 6, 1945, the U.S.S. Bullhead was plying the waters of the Java Sea when it was suddenly attacked by Japanese aircraft, which proceeded to drop 500-pound bombs* on the American submarine. Although presumed to have been sunk…

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Sunday Morning – Preserving the past – Elizabeth Rose Smith and her daughter Christine Brown

Our Ancestors is all about remembering and preserving the past isn’t Laura? Your cousin Suzan has shared some old photos and lots of information you alreary have.

This one is about Christine Anne Brown, your grandmother’s sister.

Elizabeth Rose Smith and her daughter Christine Anne Brown, about spring 1938

Elisabeth (Bettie) Rose Smith, daughter of Elva LaGasa, and her daughter, Christine. Probably in Tacoma.

Suzan

Looking at old photos has been my passion since I was a child. Sharing photos and letting them talk to us is what I do on Our Ancestors since 2009.

An older Christine Anne Brown with her sister Virginia Ruth Brown circa 1946

Your grandmother Virginia never knew her grandmother Elva Lagasa born March 19, 1902 and who died June 15, 1934. Five years ago I did not know Elva had ever existed as well as her father Frank Lagasa and her four siblings we see here.

Frank Lagasa with his children

Elva Lagassa’s photo is seen in the background on your grandmother’s wedding day on March 15, 1957.

On this next photo, Elva Lagasa is seen with probably her first child, your great-grandmother Elizabeth Rose Smith born on April 30, 1918. But I can’t be sure of it.

This is another photo of Elva Lagasa and George Smith probably taken on their wedding day. I have yet to find when they got married. I would guess 1917.

Probably, because the only thing we can be sure of when we are looking for our ancestors on Our Ancestors is that we are never sure of all the information we find. Never being sure has never deter me to look into the past.

I soldier on…

Sunday Morning – Just notes about William Cartwright…

To drive on a point about what I just wrote earlier.

William Cartwright is on this photo with his son George, his wife Betsey, and a young mother with her child. I can’t figure out right now who she is. I know that’s a four generation photo. She has to be George’s daughter, but whose daughter?

About William Cartwright
Notes…
Private
Company D
5th Wisconsin Infantry
Union Army
CIVIL WAR
He enlisted from Portland, WI, on 25 Aug 1864 and mustered out on 28 Jun 1865.
Four of his brothers also served in the war; two of them, Alvin and Washington did not come home. Alvin died of wounds received at the battle of Perryville, and Washington died of meningitis in Nashville, TN.
William first married Emeline Vaughn (1847-1873), who was from Stevens Point – and they lived there after the marriage. When she died in 1873, he moved to Colby, Marathon County.
He next married Betsy Smith with whom he had one son, George. They also had an adopted daughter, Mable.
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From: “Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin” Edited by John M. Ware 1917.
ALVIN E. CARTWRIGHT.

The career of Mr. Cartwright has identified him with the City of Waupaca for a great many years, and he has been one of the leading business men of the town. He represents some of the old and honored family names in the early annals of this county.
His father is William Cartwright, an old soldier and now a retired resident of Waupaca. William Cartwright was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1841, a son of John and Eliza (Sweet) Cartwright, who were also natives of New York State. During the decade of the ’50s the family came west to Waupaca County, first buying land in Waupaca Township near the city of that name, and later securing a farm near Sheridan in Farmington Township. John Cartwright died there about 1876, while his wife passed away in Waupaca County in 1891. They were the parents of the following children: Louis, Samuel, John, William, Alvin, Washington, Henry, Charles and one, Calvin, who died in infancy. Few families sent more of their manly sons to bear the brunt of the War of the Rebellion. There were five Cartwrights in the army, Samuel, John, William, Alvin and Washington.
William Cartwright enlisted in Company D of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry and was in active service for about two years. After the war he returned home and married for his first wife Emeline Vaughn. She was born at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in 1847, a daughter of Eliphalet Vaughn, who was one of the pioneers of Portage County. After his marriage William Cartwright lived in Stevens Point, but in 1873, after the death of his wife, he removed to Colby, in Marathon County, and acquired a homestead farm. In 1880 he returned to Waupaca County, rented land for some years, and then moved to the City of Waupaca, where he now resides. In politics he is a republican and a. member of the Grand Army of the Republic. By his first marriage there were the following children: Eliphalet, Luella, now deceased, Grace and Alvin E.
In 1873 William Cartwright married Miss Betsy Smith. She was born at Lind Center in Waupaca County October 15, 1855, daughter of Griffin and Lorinda (Lamphier) Smith, both of whom were born in New York State. Lorinda Lamphier was the daughter of Sebulon and Betsey (Hirer) Lamphier, who were among the earliest pioneer settlers of Lind Township. The Lamphier family is one that is frequently mentioned in the early annals of the township. Griffin Smith came to Lind Township in the early fifties and he afterwards volunteered his services as a Union soldier and died at Jackson, Tennessee, in 1865. His widow survived him for a great many years and died at Amherst, Wisconsin, December 2, 1906. Griffin Smith and wife had the following children: Betsey, Mary, Elwood, George, Harriet and Griffin, the last three now deceased. Mrs. Lorinda Smith afterwards married Caleb Harris, and by that marriage she had three daughters, Hattie, Laura and Eva, all of whom are still living.
Mr. William Cartwright by his second wife had a son George, who was born April 23, 1874, and has been a resident of Waupaca since 1882. George Cartwright was educated in the Waupaca country schools and for a number of years has been employed by the Fish & Tallgate firm of millers at Waupaca. He married Jessie Miller of Waupaca and they have five living children, George, Edwin, Eunice, Eva and Edith, and they lost two named Philip and Edna.
Mr. Alvin E. Cartwright was born at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, August 31, 1872, and when an infant was brought to Sheridan in Waupaca County and later to the City of Waupaca. He grew up in the family of Judge C. S. Ogden, and obtained his early education in the public schools. When a young man he engaged in the business of house moving as a teaming contractor, and for twenty-seven years has conducted a large business as a cartage and teaming contractor. It is noteworthy that he hauled the first load of lumber for the original buildings of the Soldiers Home. He has won financial independence by close attention to business and enjoys the comforts of a good home. In 1895 he bought his home on East Royalton Street, and has lived there now for more than twenty years. In politics Mr. Cartwright is a prohibitionist. For nine years he served as chief of the police force of Waupaca. Fraternally he is affiliated with Waupaca Lodge No. 208, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of the Maccabees, being a charter member of the two latter organizations at Waupaca. He and his wife attend the Baptist Church.
In May, 1894, he married Miss Clara M. Davies. She was born at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1870, a daughter of John Davies, who for twenty three years was a professor of physics in the University of Wisconsin and was also an expert electrical engineer. Professor Davies died about 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright are the parents of four children. John died in infancy. William Eugene, born December 24, 1899, is a member of the junior class of the Waupaca High School. Earl Elwood was born September 7, 1901, and is in the first year of the high school. Harold LeRoy was born June 3, 1907, and is in the fourth grade of the public schools.

Father:John A Cartwright

Spouse:Betsey A. Cartwright

Children:Della V. Cartwright

Twin Boys Cartwright

George Ellwood Cartwright

Alvin Elwood Cartwright

Sunday Morning – Only on Sunday Morning?

This is the reason I really want to post only on Sunday mornings from now on…

It’s about Lorinda Lamphear’s parents.

Keeping still…

The more I am looking for Laura’s ancestors, the more ancestors I am finding. This next old photo was shared on Ancestry in 2007. In 2007 I had only started to get interested with my own ancestors.

I wonder if this is Lorinda Lamphear?

This other woman I am sure is Lorinda Lamphear or Lamphier.

She is with three of her daughters: Betsey Smith, Laura Irene and Hattie Belle Harris. Lorinda Lamphear is one of Laura’s ancestors as well as this soldier who I found on Find A Grave last week.

Griffin L Smith

Griffin L Smith was Lorinda’s first husband who died of typhoid fever in Jackson, Tennessee, during the Civil War. Searching for our ancestors can be an endless occupation as Laura will find out. Writing on Our Ancestors is also an endless occupation.

My youngest son once told me…

There are not enough dead people around to satisfy your curiosity…

That was 10 years ago!

Finally, this is what I found also on Find A Grave last week… I have permission to share them.

Andrew Alton Fenton and Hattie Belle Harris

Laura Irene Harris with her husband Hans Magelund

Another of Lorinda’s daughter, Mary Ellen Smith with her husband Oliver Brown

I wonder who’s the baby?

There are not enough old photos around to satisfy my curiosity…

Again found on Ancestry…

Mary Ellen Smith, Betsey Smith, ?, Hattie and Laura Harris

Too be continued…

Four generations – Summer of 37

Laura, Summer of 37 seems to be a great way to start my journey into the past which started five years ago…

George Smith, baby Christine Anne Brown, Elizabeth Velie Smith, Elizabeth Rose Smith Brown

I Got Carried Away – Redux

Written more than 5 years ago when I first met a lot of 8th cousins….

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I know I did, but someone asked for our help on Facebook.

Bob Barrette created a Facebook page about the Lagasse Family. Bob and I met virtually on the Internet a few years ago. We are distant cousins but we share the same passion for our ancestors.

To make a long story short, someone posted a message and he added this old picture…

That was enough to trigger my obsession for old pictures and other people’s ancestors.

Little did I know that Bob Barrette had all the answers to this request.

I wanted to see if anyone knew how my family connects to Andre or Michel Mignier. I know that my 4 Great Grandfather is Mitchel Lagasse and his father was John Lagasse. There were many names changes coming into the US. I know that my GG Grandfather changed our name when he moved to Seattle. Joseph LaGasa and James LaGasa. Our family did a lot here is Seattle. Can tell more later.

Let’s say I got carried away a little.

To be continued…

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UPDATE…

Sometimes a comment goes a long way.

And LaGasa and Lagasa. Part of the challenge . . .

Suzan

To be continued…