Continuation of tree (6th child of Pierre Pitre/Marie Anne Lemire); all known surname descendants:
6 Pierre Jerome Lepitre b: 29 September 1819 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec; d: 15 November 1879 Chicago, Cook, IL
+Eliza Ann Chatfield b: May 1823 New York; m: 12 February 1942 Mineral Point, Iowa, WI (16 March 1842 Chicago, Cook, IL - ?) [Sherman/Deborah Wood]; d: 26 December 1881 Chicago, Cook, IL
7 Louis Lepitre b: Abt. 1843 Mineral Point, Iowa, WI; d: 3 September 1882 Chicago, Cook, IL
+Fannie E. Paine b: 9 November 1853 Chicago, Cook, IL; m: 21 June 1873 Chicago, Cook, IL; d: 31 January 1916 Fayetteville, Washington, AR
7 Julia Adelaide Malvina Lepitre b: 4 May 1844 Baraboo, Sauk, WI; d: 23 August 1926 Marseilles, LaSalle, IL
+Edwin Shoup Jordan b: 12 August 1846 Piqua, Miami, OH; m: 23 September 1865 Chicago, Cook, IL [David Jefferson/Julia Ann Cady]; d: 15 June 1889 Burlington, Wisconsin
7 Mary Lepitre b: Abt. 1846 Wisconsin; d: Aft. 1860
7 Lenard Lepitre b: Abt. 1848 Wisconsin; d: Aft. 1860
7 Alonzo L. Lepitre b: Abt. 1858 Geneva, Kane, IL; d: Aft. 1890 Chicago, Cook, IL
+Mary Frances Yates b: 25 October 1854 Chicago, Cook, IL; m: 11 December 1878 Chicago, Cook, IL [James D./Charlotte Dunn]; d: 17 February 1946 Techny, Cook, IL
7 Luella Lepitre b: November 1860 Chicago, Cook, IL; d: Aft. May 1901 Indiana
+Edwin Chubb Fuller b: 1859; m: 5 March 1884 Chicago, Cook, IL; d: 30 January 1913 Billings, Yellowstone, MT
Notes for Pierre Jerome Lepitre:
Census
- 1850
- 1860 Geneva, Kane, Illinois:
Peter Le pete 49 (carpenter), wife Eliza 36, Lewis 17, Julia A. 15, Mary L. 13,
Lenard 11, Alonzo 2.
- 1870 Chicago, Cook, IL: Peter LaPitere 59 (ship carpenter) [$1000 real
estate/$1200 personal], wife Eliza 47, Louis 27 (musician), Alonzo 12, Luella 9.
- 1880 Chicago, Cook, IL: Alonzo L. Lapete 22 (undertaker), wife Mary 24,
Harold 10 months; widowed mother Eliza A. 57. In St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO: Luella Lepitre 19 opera singer (boarding) at 113
Summit Avenue.
Chicago city directory:
1873 - residence 26 Gold: Alonzo LePetre, janitor; Louis LePetre, musician; Pierre Le Petre, expressman
Obituary: Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), 18 November 1879: Le Pitre - Nov. 15, in this city, Pierre Le Pitre, aged 59 years. Funeral from his late residence, No. 26 Gold street, to-day, at 9:30 a.m.
Estate: Daily Inter Ocean (IL), Chicago, Wednesday, 10 December 1879: Est Peter Le Pitre. Proof of will and letters test to Eliza A. Le Pitre. Ind bond in $4,000 apprd.
Notes for Eliza Ann Chatfield:
Obituary: Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), Wednesday, 28 December 1881: Le Pitre - In this city, of paralysis, Eliza A. Le Pitre, aged 58 years and 7 months. Funeral from 1028 West Adams street to-day, at 11 a.m. , to Graceland.
Illinois Grant of Administration, 17 February 1883 - Eliza A. Le Pitre, petition of Alonzo L. Le Pitre that she died on 26 December 1881 (property less than £2000); petitioner is her son.
- Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL), Saturday, 18 February 1888: Probate - Est Eliza A. Le Pitre; letters to Alonzo L. Le Pitre, bond $500 apprd.
Obituaries for the children:
Louis Lepitre: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL), Tuesday, 5 September 1882: Louis Le Pitre, the well-known and popular musician, died suddenly at 2 o'clock, at the residence of his sister, No. 1028 West Adams street, aged 39 years. Mr. Le Pitre was born at Mineral Point, Wis., of French parents, and came to this city when he was 8 years old, and has resided here ever since. He has been down for the past five weeks with rheumatism, and was getting better, when a severe cold occasioned the relapse which ended so fatally. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock at 1028 West Adams street, and the body will be laid away in Graceland. He leaves a widow and one child provided for.
Julia Adeline Malvina Lepitre: Chicago Daily News (Chicago, IL), Tuesday, 24 August 1926: Jordan - Adaline Minerva Jordan (nee LePitre), Aug. 23, 1926, at Marseilles, Ill., mother of Eva J. Davidson, Charles, Edwin Jordan and Aimee L. Jordan. Services at Graceland, Aug. 25, 4 p.m.
Luella Lepitre: (Husband: The Anaconda Standard, (Anaconda, MT), Saturday, 1 February 1913: Billings, Jan. 31 - Despondent over the fact that he was out of employment and had experienced financial reverses, E. Chubb Fuller, representative of a printing house of St. Paul, committed suicide at his apartments in the Midland hotel here early this morning by taking strychnine. A woman in an adjoining room heard his groans and the proprietor broke open the door, but Fuller expired almost at the same instant. He came to Billings from St. Paul about the first of the year. He was about 48 years old, well educated and formerly operated a publishing concern in Indianapolis. His mother and other relatives reside in Chicago. Tombstone Inscription, Mountview Cemetery, Billings, Yellowstone, MT: Edwin / Chubb Fuller / 1859 - 1913)
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Last updated: 11 March 2024.