Continuation of tree (7th child of Jean Baptiste Pitre/Helene 'Clemence' St. Pierre); all known surname descendants:
8 Henry Gilbert Pitre b: 16 May 1885 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI; d: 16 May 1951 Detroit, Wayne, MI
+Mabel Vollmer b: 8 July 1892 Detroit, Wayne, MI; m: 25 January 1909 Detroit, Wayne, MI; [divorced 14 January 1929]; d: 1 March 1988 Missouri
9 Gilbert Henry Peters b: 19 August 1910 Detroit, Wayne, MI; d: 23 May 1942 Harrison Twp., Macomb, MI (motorcycle accident on N. River Rd.)
+Angeline Constantine (Tharr) b: 31 May 1912 Hazleton, Luzerne, PA; m: 3 October 1936 Detroit, Wayne, MI [James/Mary Koferell]; d: 14 June 1999 Detroit, Wayne, MI
Notes for Henry Gilbert Pitre:
Census
- 1910 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan: John Peters 57 stone mounter, wife Helen 58, John 32 painter, Albert 27 machinist, wife Sadie 18, Henry 25 steam fitter, wife Mabel 17, Max 23 lather, Ernest 18 plumber, William 14.
- 1920 Detroit, Wayne, MI: John B. Peters 69 (laborer), wife Helen 69, divorced son Max 32; and Henry 36, wife Mabel 27, Gilbert 9.
- 1930 Detroit, Wayne, MI: Mabel Peters 37 (div.) boarding with Anna McClure 45 (div.), daughter Florence Harris 18 actress.
- 1940 Detroit, Wayne, MI: Divorced Henry Peters 55 carburetor cleaner/auto parts factory, widowed brother Max Peters 53 lather/building [2145 Fairview] Also in Detroit: Gilbert Peters 29 assembler/auto mfg., wife Angeline 27, living with her family.
- 1950 Detroit, Wayne, MI: Henry D. Peters 64 (div) machine operator/carburator co., lodging.
WWI registration records: Henry Gilbert Peters, 148 Fairview, Detroit; b. 16 May 1885 Detroit; Mrs. Mabel Peters; medium height, slender build; grey eyes, black hair
WWII records: Henry Gilbert Peters, 2145 Fairview, Detroit; age 57, b. 16 May 1885 Detroit; contact Florence Johnson (647 Beniteau, Detroit); 5'8", 130lbs., gray eyes, gray hair, light complexion; 26 April 1942
Obituary: Detroit Free Press (MI), Friday, 18 May 1951: Henry Peters, dear brother of Mrs. Henry Glaser, Ernest and William of Detroit, Albert of California. Funeral from Doherty's Funeral Home, 10612 E. Jefferson, near Harding, Saturday morning 9:15; to St. Rose Church 9:30. Interment Mt. Olivet. Rosary Friday evening at 8.
Obituary for the son:
Gilbert Henry Peters: Daily Monitor Leader (Mount Clemens, MI), Monday, 25 May 1942: Crash Fatal to Man, Girl - Motorbike Hits Telephone Pole: A 32-year-old Detroit man and his 21-year-old companion, the estranged wife of another Detroiter, are dead today after their racing motorcycle failed to negotiate a sharp North River road curve at 8 p.m. Saturday. The dead: Gilbert Peters, 32, 2629 Montclair, Mrs. Betty DeGain, 21, French road. Peters died instantly of a broken neck while internal injuries proved fatal eight hours later to Mrs. DeGain at St. Joseph's hospital. The latter was not identified until 12 hours later. Sheriff deputies said the speedometer on the motorcycle owned by Peters' brother-in-law, Neil Constantino, now in the army, had locked at 75 miles-per-hour. The vehicle left the road near the Southeastern Sugar company's plant and crashed into a tree. Peters' father, Henry, and his wife, Angeline, identified his body at the William C. Sperlich mortuary in Center Line, early Sunday. They had no children. Deputies were temporarily stumped in their efforts to identify Mrs. DeGain, finding only two snapshots in her clothing. Finally, her father-in-law, Joseph Martin, effected the identification at the LaCroix and Groesbeck Funeral Home. He said Mrs. DeGain had not been living with her husband, Donald, or his three-year-old daughter, Virginia. Peters was a defense worker employed by Chrysler at its East Jefferson plant.
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