Napoleon Pitre

1895 Bourget, Ontario – 1967 Lemieux, Ontario

 

 

Continuation of tree (8th child of Eusebe Pitre/Ameline Potvin); all known surname descendants:

                  9          Napoleon Pitre  b: 20 October 1895  Sacre Coeur, Bourget, Russell, ONT; d: 13 October 1967  Lemieux, Prescott, ONT

                                     +Marie Louise Angelina Lea Castonquay  b: 8 August 1909  St. Michel, Vaudreuil, Quebec; m: 5 July 1926  St. Joseph, Lemieux, Prescott, ONT [Joseph/Vitaline Boulanger]; d: 1997  Lemieux, Prescott, ONT

                               10          Marie Juliette Pitre  b: 7 July 1928  St. Joseph, Lemieux, Prescott, ONT; d: Aft. October 1967

                                               +Ovide Gadouas  b: Abt. 1926; m: 16 October 1948  Lemieux, Prescott, ONT

                               10          Marie Noella Pitre  b: 25 October 1932  St. Joseph, Lemieux, Prescott, ONT; d: Aft. October 1967

                                               +Remi Gadouas 

                               10          Alice Pitre  b: 1935; d: Aft. October 1967

                                               +Andre Mulligan  b: 1936; m: 1 September 1956  Lemieux, Prescott, ONT; d: 2005  Casselman, Cambridge, Prescott-Russell, ONT

 

 

Notes for Napoleon Pitre:

Census

- 1931 Lemieux, South Plantagenet, Prescott, Ontario:  Napoleon Pitre 34 farmer, wife Lea 21, Juliet 2.

 

CEF Personnel Files (drafted recruits):  Napoleon Pitre, res. Lemieux, ONT; b. 20 Oct 1895 Bourget, ONT; single; farmer; father Mr. Eusube Pitre (Lemieux); 5' 6 1/2"; dark complexion, blue eyes & dark brown hair, 2 moles back neck; 15 Jun 1918 Ottawa, ONT.  Arrived in England 8 Aug 1918, 2nd Depot Battalion; discharged 3 Jul 1919.

 

Obituary:  The Ottawa Citizen (ONT), Saturday, 14 October 1967:  Pitre, Napoleon - On Friday, October 13, 1967, Napoleon Pitre of Lemieux, Ontario, age 71, husband of Lea Castonguay; dear father of Mrs. Ovide Gadouas (Juliette), Beau Harnois, Mrs. Remi Gadouas (Noella), Clarence Creek, Mrs. Andre Milligan (Alice), Cornwall; dear brother of Eusebe, Joseph, Gedeon, Cornwall, Godfroy, Lemieux, Martin, Beau Harnois; Mrs. Hector Dore; also 17 grandchildren.  Resting at Quesnel Funeral Home at Casselman.  Funeral on Monday, October 16th for Requiem High Mass at St. Joseph Church of Lemieux at 10 a.m.  Interment Parish Cemetery.

 

Tombstone Inscription:  St. Joseph Cemetery, Lemieux, Prescott, ONT:  PITRE / Joseph Castonguay / 1867 - 1941 / son epouse / Vitaline Boulanger / 1876 - 1934 / Napoleon Pitre / 1895 - 1967 / son epouse / Lea Castonguay / 1909 - 1997

 

Obituaries for the children:

Alice Pitre:  Tombstone Inscription, Ste. Euphemie Cemetery, Casselman, Cambridge, Prescott-Russell, ONT:  MULLIGAN / Andre Mulligan / 1936 – 2005 / son epouse / Alice Pitre / 1935 – (blank)

 

 

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Last updated:  5 October 2023.