Continuation of tree (1st child of Francois Lepitre/Angele Dumas); all known surname descendants:
7 Pierre Lepitre b: 11 January 1823 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, QUE; d: 18 November 1899 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
+Marguerite Lemire b: August 1821 Quebec; m: 16 August 1841 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, QUE [Jean Baptiste/Marie Louise Thibodeau]; d: 16 February 1890 Sacre Coeur de Jesus, Stanstead, QUE
8 Pierre Lepitre b: 26 June 1842 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, QUE; d: 14 February 1922 South Troy, Orleans, VT
+Marie Elizabeth Fecteau b: 12 November 1843 St. Felix, Kingsey, Drummond, QUE; m: 14 July 1861 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Jean Baptiste/Julie Martel]; d: 23 October 1909 Barton, Orleans, VT
*2nd Wife of Pierre Lepitre:
+Marie Jeanne Valley (Cadaret) b: 4 March 1878 Quebec; m: 27 April 1914 Newport, Orleans, VT [George/Celima Marquis]; d: 13 November 1932 Hartford, Washington, NY
8 George 'Treffle' Lepitre b: 23 May 1844 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, QUE; d: 27 January 1928 Hospice du Sacre Coeur, Sherbrooke, QUE
+Marie Domitille Huppe b: 11 December 1847 St. Joseph (Lauzon), Levis, QUE; m: 11 June 1871 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Joseph Laglois dit Huppe/Sara Ainse]; d: 30 November 1919 Rock Island, Stanstead, QUE
8 Marie Lepitre b: 7 May 1846 Notre Dame de Bon Secours, Stuckely Nord, Shefford, QUE; d: 15 June 1910 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
+Simeon Marcotte b: 7 December 1841 Ste. Famille, Cap Sante, Portneuf, QUE; m: 17 July 1865 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Henri/Virginie Bertrand]; d: 25 September 1910 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
8 Marguerite Lepitre b: 1 July 1849 Quebec; d: 29 May 1936 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
+Joseph Cyril Langevin b: 21 February 1844 St. Edouard, Gentilly, Nicolet, QUE; m: 10 September 1867 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Jean/Apolline Houle]
*2nd Husband of Marguerite Lepitre:
+Amedee Sabourin b: Abt. 1840; m: 5 August 1925 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE; d: 20 June 1931 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
8 Francois Xavier Lepitre b: 31 October 1851 Stanstead, QUE; d: 8 December 1893 Derby Line, Orleans, VT
+Marie Emma Pepin b: 18 March 1849 St. Pierre les Becquets, Nicolet, QUE; m: 2 January 1872 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Pierre/Olive Baril]; d: 21 March 1923 Manchester, Hillsborough, NH
8 Michel Lepitre b: 22 May 1854 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE; d: 7 April 1883 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
8 Helena Lepitre b: 18 March 1856 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE; d: 3 February 1926 Notre Dame de la Merci, Rock Island, Stanstead, QUE
+Joseph Napoleon Auger b: 1850; m: 10 November 1873 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Ephraim/Marie Bourke]; d: 21 November 1925 Notre Dame de la Merci, Rock Island, Stanstead, QUE
8 Olive Lepitre b: 23 April 1858 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE; d: 26 March 1933 Notre Dame de la Merci, Rock Island, Stanstead, QUE
+Alfred Belanger b: Abt. 1855 Quebec; m: 23 August 1875 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Boniface/Marie Guimont dite Cyrille]; d: 23 September 1936 Notre Dame de la Merci, Rock Island, Stanstead, QUE
8 Calixte Napoleon Lepitre b: June 1860 Holland, Orleans, VT; d: 6 February 1862 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE
8 Euphemie Helene Lepitre b: 23 June 1863 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE; d: 17 October 1913 Barton, Orleans, VT
+Joseph Henri Valliere b: 8 September 1862 Rouville, QUE; m: 24 November 1879 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Joseph/Rosalie Bougret dite Dufort]; d: 5 January 1904 Manchester, Hillsborough, NH
*2nd Husband of Euphemie Helene Lepitre:
+John Wheeler b: 27 March 1860 Derby, Orleans, VT; m: 11 October 1904 Holland, Orleans, VT [Abel/Lucy A. Still]; d: 24 February 1947 Newport, Orleans, VT
*2nd Wife of Pierre Lepitre:
+Emily Davis (Joice, Colburne) b: Abt. 1835 Barnston, Stanstead, QUE; m: 16 January 1892 Sacre Coeur, Stanstead, QUE [Eugene Emerson/Sarah Belknap]; d: Aft. August 1901
Notes for Pierre Lepitre:
Census
- 1860 Holland, Orleans, Vermont:
Peter Lapete 37 (farmer) [$600 real estate/$50 personal], wife Margaret 38,
Peter 17, George 15, Mary 14, Margaret 11, Alexander 9, Mitchel 6, Lena 4, Oliva
2, male infant 11 months.
- 1871 Stanstead, Quebec: Peter La Pete 48, wife Margaret 48, George 25,
Xavier 20, Mitchel 17, Ellennor 15, Olive 14, Euphemie 8.
- 1881 Stanstead, Stanstead, QUE: Peter Lapete 58, wife Margaret 58,
Michael 26.
- 1891 Stanstead, Stanstead, QUE: Widower Peter Petre 69 (farmer).
- 1900/1901 widow
Misc.: The Gazette (Montreal), Thursday, 24 June 1886: A boy named Michel Blais from Derby Line, who stole some $130 from Pete Lepitre, at Stanstead on Sunday of last week, was sent to the reformatory prison for two years.
Obituaries for the children:
Pierre Lepitre: Orleans County Monitor, Wednesday, 15 February 1922: Barton - Peter LaPete, aged 82 years, a former resident of this town, died in South Troy Tuesday morning, February 14.
Tombstone Inscription, St. Pauls Cemetery, Barton, VT: Pete Lapete / 1842 - 1922 // Elizabeth / Lapete / 1843 - 1909
Michel Lepitre: Tombstone Inscription, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Stanstead, QUE: Michel / fils de / Pierre Lepitre / et de / Marguerite Lemire / decede 7 Avril 1883 / age de 27 ans
Helena Lepitre: Tombstone Inscription, Sacre Coeur de Jesus Cemetery, Stanstead, QUE: Joseph Auger / 1850 - 1925 // Lena Lepetre / his wife / 1856 - 1926
Euphemie Helene Lepitre: MISC: St. Louis Globe Patriot (MO), Wednesday, 19 February 1879: Stanstead, P.Q., February 18 - Intense excitement prevails here. The village was startled last Saturday evening by the report of the abduction of a beautiful girl of fifteen summers, the daughter of Mr. Pierre La Pete, a wealthy and respectable French Canadian farmer, living almost on the border line. It seems that his youngest and only unmarried daughter has been in the habit of late, when out of school, of spending much of her time at a neighbor's, Myron Haskell's, where a man by the name of French has been visiting for the past month, claiming to come from the United States and reported to have a wife and three children. The girl was last seen in company with the school mistress entering Haskell's house. The teacher had lately spent the night with the girl, who had been persuaded to take her clothes to Haskell's house. Haskell, the day previous to the supposed abduction, borrowed from a distant neighbor a two-seated country vehicle, and was seen with it a short time afterward a few miles from Stanstead driving rapidly toward Island Pond, a border railway station, the man French being his only companion. A few miles further on the party was seen to consist of these two men and a young girl. It is supposed that the girl was secreted in the bottom of the vehicle until several miles had been placed between her home and the fleeing party. At Island Pond they were thought to have taken the train to Portland, Haskell returning in the night to his home. A letter was received by the girl's father, purporting to come from his child, mailed at Gilead, Me., a couple of days after her disappearance. The contents of the letter are withheld from the public for the present by the prosecuting attorneys. The Court House was thronged yesterday by the friends and neighbors of the afflicted family, who carry the complete sympathy of the neighborhood in their irreparable affliction. The scene in the Courtroom during the prosecution's examination of the schoolmistress was exciting in the extreme, it being quite evident that she was evading the questions. It is the unanimous opinion that she was an accessory to the crime. A firm determination exists in the community and family to bring the parties who caused the girl to leave her home to justice. Haskell and his wife are under heavy bonds and exhibit much concern as to the result, the penalty, if convicted, being a Penitentiary punishment. The sitting of the regular Circuit Court compels the adjournment of the prosecution until the 20th inst. Vigorous measures will be pushed in the interim to ascertain the whereabouts of French and the girl. The alleged victim, Eugenie La Pete, is a little brunette and extremely pretty, with a petite though voluptuous figure. Her photographs had been quietly gathered by the abductor, or his accomplices, from the neighbors, from her home, and from the photographer, who exhibited one in his show case, evidently to avoid recognition in their flight. It is thought that the girl was won over to the scheme of an elopement by French and his friends. The French Canadians here are much enraged, and should French appear in Stanstead to-night, Judge Lynch might have full swing.
- Jackson Citizen Patriot (MI), Thursday, 20 February 1879, Jackson, MI: A Terrible Abduction Case in Canada - Alleged Abduction: Boston, Feb. 18 - A special from Stanstead, P.Q., says that a state of intense excitement prevails there today over the mysterious absence of a beautiful girl of fifteen summers, the daughter of Pierre La Pete, a wealthy and respectable French Canadian farmer living almost on the border line. A man giving the name of French, claiming to have hailed from the States, and said to have a wife and three children, has been visiting at Myron Haskell's a month past, and Eugenie has been in the habit of passing much of her time there in company with her school teacher. French has also disappeared, and the evidence of the people living in the outskirts of town leads to the belief that he and the girl were driven to the railway at Island pond Saturday night by Haskell. Haskell and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of being accessories to an abduction, and the school teacher has also been taken in custody. A letter purporting to be from Eugenie has been received by her father at Gilead, Me., but its contents are withheld by the Prosecuting Attorney. The missing girl is a brunette, extremely pretty and of a petite but voluptuous figure. Her photographs had been quietly gathered up before the flight, so as to baffle detection. Intense anger prevails against French and the alleged accessories to the abduction, which, if an abduction, was doubtless for the basest purpose.
- Jackson Citizen Patriot (MI), Wednesday, 26 February 1879 - Jackson, MI: Young Mr. French made his appearance in Stanstead, Canada, half a year ago, and took board in the village tavern. He seemed to have no business, and devoted considerable of his time to courting Miss La Pete, much to the displeasure of her parents, who finally forbade him to see her. One day French informed Mr. La Pete that he had made up his mind to go away, and asked for the use of his horse and wagon with which to get to the railrway station, 10 miles distant. La Pete was delighted by the proposed departure, and readily lent the horse and wagon, which were to be sent back by a boy. Mr. and Mrs. La Pete waved French a joyful adieu as he drove off, and was glad that Miss La Pete was not there to show regret. They afterward learned that she was curled up under the wagon seat, thus eloping from under their very noses.
- The St. Albans Advertiser (VT), Friday, 28 February 1879: There is much excitement and speculation in the vicinity of Stanstead, P.Q., in regard the alleged abduction of Euphemia Lapitre, a bright and beautiful girl fifteen years old, and the daughter of a farmer named Peter Lapitre. The girl, whose home is a very comfortable one, was an attendant at the district school, and was an apt scholar, making good improvement of her opportunity. On the 12th Inst. she disappeared, and there was much anxiety in her family and among her friends. Inquiries resulted in the girl being traced to Lewiston, Me., where she was found and brought home. There are various theories advanced as the motives for the abduction, one being that her home was made unpleasant to her on account of her desire to abandon the Catholic faith. Myron Haskell and wife of Cowansville, Ida Barry, teacher of the district school there, and Albert French of Lewiston, Me., have been arrested on a charge of abduction. The girl makes a statement in which she charges all these parties, excepting Miss Barry, with aiding her in her departure from home, but she does not appear to have gone under stress of any force or intimidation.
- St. Albans Daily Messenger (VT), Monday, 24 March 1879: Over the border - Myron Haskell, who, with his wife, was arrested for assisting in the abduction of Phemie Lepite, Stanstead, has been found guilty and sentenced to two weeks' hard labor in the Sherbrooke jail. Mrs. Haskell was acquitted.
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