Continuation of tree (1st child of Jean Baptiste Pitre/2nd wife Angelique Chauvin); all known surname descendants:
5 Jean Baptiste Pitre b: 26 December 1785 Ste. Anne (Fort Pontchartrain), Detroit, Wayne, MI; d: 23 March 1852 Belle River, Essex, ONT
+Claire Mailloux b: 23 September 1793 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; m: 17 January 1809 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT [Jean Baptiste/Marie Therese Pare]; d: 10 March 1829 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Athanase 'Dennis' Pitre b: 7 December 1809 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 14 September 1865 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI
+Phoebe Bechard (Palain) b: 16 April 1815 Ste. Marguerite, L'Acadie, St. Jean, Quebec; m: 8 May 1838 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT [Basile/Josette Giroux]; d: 30 September 1854 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI
6 Jean Baptiste Cyriaque Pitre b: 19 June 1811 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 9 October 1885 Detroit, Wayne, MI
+Felicite Trudel b: 17 May 1812 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT (Riviere a la Tranche) m: 12 January 1836 St. Pierre, River Thames, Kent, ONT [Louis/Felicia Labutte]; d: 11 March 1886 Detroit, Wayne, MI
6 David Pitre b: 9 October 1812 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 29 May 1817 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Appoline Pitre b: 14 September 1815 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 2 October 1818 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Medard Pitre b: 15 February 1818 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 5 May 1904 Detroit, Wayne, MI
+Mathilde Gouin b: 27 March 1824 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; m: 23 January 1844 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT [Medard/Marie Louisa Robert]; d: 12 December 1903 Detroit, Wayne, MI
6 David Pitre b: 10 January 1820 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 11 February 1885 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI
+Sophie 'Emelia' Mercure b: 18 May 1827 St. Basile, Madawaska, NB; m: 27 February 1843 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI [Pierre/Angelique Ayot]; d: 21 September 1902 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI
6 Felicite Pitre b: 15 October 1821 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Scholastique Pitre b: 30 March 1823 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 2 April 1823 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Therese Pitre b: 21 August 1824 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 15 December 1825 Ste. Anne, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Justine Pitre b: 28 December 1826 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 9 May 1903 Bay City, Bay, MI
+Louis Alexander Villers dit St. Louis b: 12 April 1823 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; m: 27 August 1843 Sandwich, Essex, ONT [Hubert/Teresa Victoria Barthe]; d: 4 December 1872 Ste. Anne, Detroit, Wayne, MI
*2nd Wife of Jean Baptiste Pitre:
+Angelique Letourneau b: 11 February 1791 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; m: 7 January 1830 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT [Pierre/Marie Louise Deliere]; d: 21 April 1843 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Scholastique Pitre b: 4 August 1830 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 14 January 1848 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Rodolphe Pitre b: 22 August 1832 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT; d: 28 October 1848 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
6 Damase Pitre b: 24 February 1836 Assumption, Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, ONT
*3rd Wife of Jean Baptiste Pitre:
+Cecile Meny (Guigne dite Bourguignon) b: 12 December 1788 Ste. Anne (Fort Pontchartrain), Detroit, Wayne, MI; m: 3 March 1851 Detroit, Wayne, MI [Pierre/Cecilia Beaulieu]; d: Aft. June 1853
Obituaries for the children:
Death Notice: The Evening News (Detroit, MI), Saturday, 7 May 1904: Medor Peters, 91 years, 1009 Monroe; senile debility.
David Pitre: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), Friday, 13 February 1885: Died: Peters - In this city, Wednesday, February 11, at 8 p.m., at his late residence, No. 346 Twenty-second st., David Peters, aged 64 years and 11 months. Funeral Saturday, February 14, from residence at 8 o'clock. Services from Ste. Anne's Church at 9 o'clock. Friends of the family invited to attend. Bay City and Maidstone papers please copy.
Justine Pitre: Bay City Daily Tribune (Bay City, MI), Tuesday, 12 May 1903: Mrs. Alex. Villaire, 76 years old, who died Saturday.: Mrs. Alex. Villaire, 76 years old, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Demo, Frank street, First ward, will take place from Visitation church this morning. Interment at St. Patrick's cemetery. Mrs. Villaire was born in Sandwich, Ont., Dec. 28, 1826. She was married Aug. 27, 1843, was the mother of eight children, grandmother to 30 children and great-grandmother to 13. She is survived by two sons, Alex. and David Villaire and two daughters, Theresa, Varnica and Mrs. Lucy Demo. Her maiden name was Justine Peters. Canada was her home for 22 years, when she moved to Detroit, where she resided eight years. In 1872 she was left a widow and came to Bay City to live. In 1875 she commenced making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Demo, at whose home she died.
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