Joseph Cleophas Pitre

1873 Matapedia, Quebec – 1941 Campbellton, New Brunswick

 

 

Continuation of tree (4th child of Cleophas Pitre/Louise Gallant); all known surname descendants:

                9        Joseph Cleophas Pitre  b: 18 July 1873  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 17 September 1941  Campbellton, Restigouche, NB

                                  + Marie Sophie Pitre  b: 12 May 1872  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; m: 2 July 1891  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE [Jeremie/Marie Pitre]; d: 27 October 1905  Pointe a la Garde, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       Marie Louise Anna Pitre  b: 2 May 1892  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 7 February 1973  St. Jean Baptiste, QUE

                                          +Joseph Emile Pitre  b: 4 September 1890  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; m: 22 February 1916  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Andre/Edesse Pitre]; d: 10 September 1959  Mann, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       Marie Elvine 'Elouise' Pitre  b: 29 May 1894  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 22 September 1921  Pointe a la Garde, Bonaventure, QUE

                                          +Louis Charles Ludger Caillouette  b: 3 December 1892  St. Bonaventure, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 18 November 1919  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Janvier/Marie Arsenault]; d: 23 June 1968  Maria, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       Joseph Emile Pitre  b: 10 May 1896  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 8 December 1969  Pointe a la Garde, Bonaventure, QUE

                                          +Marie Flora Calvert  b: 1 January 1903  Nouvelle, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 21 February 1928  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [James/Marie Jeanne Parker]; d: 14 March 1978  Pointe a la Garde, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       Marie Josephine Pitre  b: 16 March 1898  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 23 May 1920  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       male Pitre  b: 30 August 1899  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: Bef. 1901

                           10       Alphonse Cleophas Pitre  b: 13 March 1900  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 1 October 1965  Nouvelle, Bonaventure, QUE

                                          +Marie Marthe Rachel Antoinette Gallant  b: 1 June 1907  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 18 February 1925  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Joseph/Celina Laviolette]

                           10       Joseph Raymond Antoine Pitre  b: 5 February 1902  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE; d: 10 January 1968  Nouvelle, Bonaventure, QUE

                                          +Marie Elizabeth Vera Keays  b: 1911; m: 19 November 1930  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [John/Selina Williamson]; d: 11 June 1991  Escuminac, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       male Pitre  b: 11 January 1904  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; d: 11 January 1904  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE

                           10       Marie Cecile Yvonne Pitre  b: 30 December 1904  St. Antoine, Escuminac, QUE; d: 27 October 1951  Utica, Oneida, NY

                                          +Albert Leon Doiron  b: 19 November 1902  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 12 August 1924  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Isidore/Anne Leblanc]; d: 20 May 1990  Utica, Oneida, NY

                      

                       *2nd Wife of Joseph Cleophas Pitre:

                                 + Marie Emelie Catherine Pitre  b: 13 March 1880  St. Alexis, Matapedia, QUE; m: 1 December 1906  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Jeremie/Marie Pitre]; d: 2 May 1953  Escuminac, Bonaventure, QUE

                           10       Marie Sophie Alexina Pitre  b: 7 September 1907  St. Antoine, Escuminac, Bonaventure, QUE; d: 20 March 1988  Maria, Bonaventure, QUE

                                          +Joseph Edouard Francoeur  b: 8 January 1907  St. Jean l'Evangeliste, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 21 May 1928  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Anselme/Lucie Arseneau]; d: 13 January 1972  Montreal, QUE

                           10       Marie Melanie Germaine Pitre  b: 7 March 1910  St. Antoine, Escuminac, Bonaventure, QUE; d: 21 January 1983  Ste. Anne de Beaupre, QUE

                                          +Gerard Emilien Gauvreau  b: 13 August 1910  St. Jean l'Evangeliste, Bonaventure, QUE; m: 25 January 1933  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE [Elzear/Agnes Maltais]; d: 22 May 1990  Baie Comeau, QUE

                           10       Joseph Robert Jeremie Pitre  b: 1 July 1918  Ste. Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, QUE; d: 29 March 1978  Jonquiere, QUE

                                          +Marie Ange Francoeur  b: 1921; m: unknown; d: 1998

 

 

Notes for Joseph Cleophas Pitre:

Census

- 1901 Matapedia, Bonaventure, Quebec:  Joseph Pitre 29, wife Marie S. 29, Marie Louise 8, Elouise 6, Emile 4, Josephine 3, Alphonse 1; and his in-laws Jeremie 56 & wife Marie 58.

- 1911 Flaurant, Escuminac, Bonaventure, Quebec:  Joseph Peters 37, wife Melina 28, Mary 18, Elvene 16, Emael 14, Josepene 13, Alpose 11, J. Emael 10, Evonel 7, Cilima 3, Jermained 1.

- 1921 Escuminac, Bonaventure, Quebec:  Joseph C. Pitre 46 farmer, wife Meline 41, Emile 25, Alphonse 21, Emil 20, Raymond 19, Yvonne 16, Alexina 13, Germaine 11, Robert 2.

- 1931 Escuminac, Bonaventure, QUE:  Joseph Cleophas Pitre 57 labourer/odd jobs, wife Marie Melina 51, Lawrence 21, Robert 12, (stepson) Aime Theophile 31.  Also in Escuminac:  Raymond Pitre 28 labourer/odd jobs, wife Vera Mary 20, father-in-law John Willard Keays 54.

Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  A / memoire de / Joseph / Cleophas Pitre / epoux de / Melina Pitre / decede le / 11 Sept 1941 / age 68 ans / 2 mois / RIP  //  Melina Pitre / epouse de / Joseph C. Pitre / dec le 2 Mai 1953 / a l’age de 72 ans

 

Online photo: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/33068262/person/18390085104

 

WWI records (sons):

Joseph Emile Pitre:  Joseph Emile Pitre; 10 May 1896; Pte. Le Gard, Bonaventure, QUE (laborer); Joseph Cleophas Pitre (father); 22 May 1918, St. John, NB; 5' 9", dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair (one vax left arm)

 

Obituaries for the children:

Joseph Emile Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  1896 Emile J. Pitre 1969 / epoux de / 1903 M. Flore Calvert 1978 / E.J. Pitre

 

Alphonse Cleophas Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  PITRE / Alphonse Pitre / epoux de / Rachel Gallant / 1900-1965

 

Joseph Raymond Antoine Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  Raymond Pitre / born 1902 – died 1968 / beloved husband of / Mary Elizabeth Vera Keays / born 1911 – blank / Father let thy grace be given / that we may meet in heaven

 

Marie Cecile Yvonne Pitre:  Utica Daily Press (NY), Monday, 29 October 1951:  Mrs. Leon Doiron - Mrs. Yvonne Doiron, 46, of 2502 Sunset, died Oct. 27, 1951, in St Luke's Hospital after a long illness.  She was born at Points LaGarde, Canada, Dec. 30, 1904, daughter of Filomena Pitre and the late Joseph Pitre.  In 1924 she married Leon Doiron and since had made her home In Utica.  Mrs. Doiron was employed as a sales clerk for the F. W. Woolworth Company.  She was a communicant of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, its Rosary-Altar Society, the Ladies of Charity of St. John's Home and the Ladies of the Moose.  Besides her husband and mother she is survived by two daughters, Lorraine and Joyce Doiron, Utica; two sons, Gerald and Alan Doiron, Utica; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Louise Pitre and Mrs. Germalne Selard; five brothers, Robert Emile, Alfonse Raymond and Amie Pitre, all of Canada; several nieces and nephews.  The funeral will be at 8:30 tomorrow from the Heinz Funeral Home, 1517 Whitesboro St., and at 9 from Our Lady of Lourdes Church, with burial in Mt Olivet Cemetery.

Tombstone Inscription, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Whitesboro, NY:  Wife / Yvonne C. Doiron / 1906 - 1951  //  Husband / Leon A. Doiron / 1902 - 1990

 

Marie Sophie Alexina Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  Alexina Pitre / Francoeur / 1907 – 1988

 

Marie Melanie Germaine Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  GAUVREAU / Germaine Pitre / 1910 – 1983 / epouse de / Gerard Gauvreau / 1910 – 1990

 

Joseph Robert Jeremie Pitre:  Tombstone Inscriptions: Cimetière de la Fabrique Notre Dame de la Garde / St-Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Bonaventure, QUE:  Robert Pitre / decede a arvida / 1918 – 1978 / Marie-Ange / Francoeur / decedee a arvida / 1921 – 1998 / PITRE

 

 

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