Charles Pitre

1854 Beauharnois, Quebec – 1932 St. Helens, Oregon

 

 

Continuation of tree (6th child of Pierre Pitre/Marcelline Bergevin); all known surname descendants:

                8          Charles Pitre  b: 23 April 1854  St. Clement, Beauharnois, Quebec; d: 14 November 1932  St. Helens, Columbia, OR

                                 +Virginie Rassette  b: November 1864  Manitoba; m: Abt. 1894  Lambert, Red Lake, MN [William/Marguerite Parenteau]; d: 6 October 1942  St. Helens, Columbia, OR

                          9          Consuella A. Lajambe  b: 18 August 1895  Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 10 January 1974  Warren, Columbia, OR

                                         +Ralph Augustus Wheeler  b: 21 January 1895  Parkston, Hutchinson, SD; m: 22 October 1919  Beltrami Co., MN [James Silas/Julia Jane Shannon]; d: 28 March 1965  Vancouver, Clark, WA

                          9          Aglae Lajambe  b: November 1898  Red Lake Co., MN; d: 9 November 1948  Scappoose, Columbia, OR

                                         +Louis Roy Lafleur  b: 9 January 1895  Stillwater, Washington, MN; m: 6 August 1918  Red Lake Co., MN [Louis/Phoebe Grevious]; d: 30 August 1943  Hillsborough, Washington, OR

                                       *2nd Husband of Aglae Lajambe:

                                         +William Hubbard Betnar  b: 15 May 1887  Pierce, MN; m: 4 April 1924  (divorced 17 December 1945 Columbia, OR); d: 10 January 1967  St. Helens, Columbia, OR

                                       *3rd Husband of Aglae Lajambe:

                                         +Forrest Monson White  b: 19 June 1909  Kearney Co., NE; m: 31 May 1946  Columbia, OR [Walter/Effie May Buck]; d: 5 September 1980  Multnomah, OR

                          9          Joseph Sylva Lajambe   b: 9 November 1899  Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 10 June 1964  International Falls, Koochiching, MN

                                         +Loretta Bolstad  b: 4 August 1906  Clearwater, Red Lake, MN; m: 9 November 1925  Red Lake Co., MN  [Christian/Serene Tonata Rue]; d: 31 July 1985  Greenbush, Mille Lacs, MN

                          9          Resida Albert Lajambe  b: February 1902  Oklee, Red Lake, MN; d: 3 April 1932  Tabor, Polk, MN

                                         +Mary Alice Shelling  b: 1 September 1908  Grand Forks, Grand Forks, ND; m: 23 March 1928  Koochiching Co., MN;  [Frank/Gena ---]; d: 8 July 1986  Mossyrock, Lewis, WA

                          9          Adjuta (Augusta) 'Louis' Lajambe  b: 15 October 1903  Oklee, Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 26 September 1966  Seattle, King, WA

 

 

Notes for Charles Pitre:

Census

- 1880 Polk Co., Minnesota:  Chas. Leschome 26 (laborer), with his brother Cunrod 22 (laborer), & Joseph 24 (laborer), are all boarders w/Robt. Cowley.
 

- 1885 Lambert, Polk, Minnesota:  Marcelline Lajambe 60, Charles 30, Philippe 28, Joseph 26, Conrad 22, Jitter 9.

 

- 1895 Lambert, Polk, Minnesota:  Charles Lajambe 40 (farmer), wife Virginia 26.

- 1900 Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota:  Charles Lajambe 43 (farmer), wife of 6 years Virginie 29, Concuella 4, Egla 1, Cylva 6 months.

- 1905 Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota:  Charles Lajambe 52y/3m (farmer), Virginie 33y/6m, Consiela 10y/9m, Octave 7y/7m, Sylva 6y/6m, Reseda 4y/1m, Augusta 1y/7m, Albert 2 months, Cezelia Langlois 21y/7m, Lea Langlois 15.

- 1910 Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota:  Charly Lajame 54 (farmer), wife of 15 years Virginie 43, Aent C. 14 , Egla 12, Sylva 10, Reseda 8, Adjuta 6.

- 1920 Oklee, Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota:  Charles La Shambe 65 (farmer), wife Virginie 60, Sylva 20, Receda 18 years 4 months, Adjuto 16 years 2 months.

- 1930 St. Helens, Columbia, Oregon:  Charles Lagambe 77, wife Virginie 65, Louis 23.

 

- 1940 St. Helens, Columbia, OR:  William H. Betnar 55 laborer/paper mill [$2200 house value], wife Eglia 41, widowed mother-in-law Virginia La Jande 75.

 

Misc.: 

- Bowbells Tribune (ND), Friday, 17 July 1908:  Fish Trap Owner Fined:  Crookston, Minn., July 12 - Game Warden Munch of Crookston captured a party of fish trap users on the Lost river, five miles out of Brooks, in Red Lake county, yesterday, and confiscated the traps, which belonged to Charles Lajamb, a farmer.  Lajamb was fined $50 and released.

- Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 31 March 1922, Bass Lake - Mrs. C. Lajambe, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Wheeler for the past two weeks left for her home in Akeley Monday.  Ralph Wheeler & R. Lajame were Sunday callers at the JS Wheeler home.

 

Burial:  Both Charles & Virginie are buried in the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery, Scappoose, Columbia, Oregon. 

Tombstone Inscription, St. Wenceslaus Cemetery, Scappoose, ORVirginia / La Jambe / 1864 - 1942

 

WWI registration records (sons):

Joseph Sylva Lajambe:  Sylva Lajambe; Red Lake, MN; born 9 Nov 1898; Charlie Lajambe; medium height, medium build; blue eyes & black hair.

 

Obituaries for the children:

Consuella A. Lajambe:  Oregonian (Portland, OR), Sunday, 13 January 1974 - Wheeler - Consuella A. of St. Helens; mother of James Wheeler, Angeline Coleman and Virginia Hansen, of Portland; Ralph Wheeler, Bremerton, Wn.; Mrs. Evangeline Thom, Eugene; and Pearl Wheeler, St. Helens; 11 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren.  Services Tuesday Jan 15, 11am, St. Fredericks Catholic Church, St. Helens.  Interment Bethany Memorial cemetery.  Coleman-Rushing Funeral Home, Directors.

Tombstone Inscription, Bethany Memorial Cemetery, Warren, OR:  Consuella A. Wheeler / Aug 18, 1895 / Jan. 10, 1974 / mother  //  Ralph A. Wheeler / 1895 - 1965 / son / PVT. 71st Arty. / Julia J. Wheeler / 1864 - 1944 / mother

 

Aglae Lajambe:  Oregonian (Portland, OR), Wednesday, 10 November 1948:  White - Nov. 9, Eglia C. White, route 1, box 222, Scappoose, OR; wife of Forrest M. White.  Funeral services will be held at the Coleman Funeral Home, St. Helens.  Arrangements in care of The Colonial Mortuary.

Tombstone Inscription, St. Wenceslaus Cemetery, Scappoose, Columbia, OR:  Mother / Eglia C. White / 1897 - 1948

 

Resida Albert Lajambe:  Death notice:  The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, MN), Tuesday, 5 April 1932 - Tabor, Minn., April 5 - Resida Lajambe, 35 years old, and his two small sons, Wallace, 4, and Robert, 2, were dead here today from drinking milk in which poison had been placed by the father.  The bodies were found in bed in their home Monday night.  In a farewell note to his wife the father admitted giving the boys poisoned milk and then drinking some himself, Coroner Nelson said.

- Dallas Morning News, Wednesday, 6 April 1932 - Tabor, Minn., April 5 - A father and two small sons were dead Tuesday, victims, the coroner said, of poison placed in milk by the farmer.  The dead were Resida Lajambe, 35; Wallace, 4, and Robert, 2 1/2, whose bodies were found in bed in their home Monday night.  H.E. Nelson, Polk County coroner, said it appeared the father gave the boys the poisoned milk and then drank some himself.  Beside his bed was found a bottle containing poison and a farewell note to his wife.  Friends said the family had been torn by domestic troubles.  Lajambe was a cream buyer.  His wife was away on a visit.

 

Joseph Sylva Lajambe:  Tombstone Inscription, Forest Hill Cemetery, International Falls, MN:  Sylva J. LaJambe / Nov. 9, 1899 / June 10, 1964

 

Adjuta (Augusta) 'Louis' Lajambe:  Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, WA), Tuesday, 4 Oct 1966:  Louis A. La Jambe, age 62, 2213 1/2 First Ave., Sept. 26 (Booth-Ashmore Mortuary)

 

 

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