- IX - | Lucie FAUBERT | Barthélemi MEILLEUR | | naissance 4 jan 1886 à Grand Forks MN, décès 20 déc 1918 à
Fisher Branch MB, âge : 32 ans, de la grippe espagnole, sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery,
Fisher Branch MB.
Père : Eusèbe FAUBERT Mère : Joséphine RAYMOND
| naissance 25 oct 1876 à Menominee MI,
décès 25 oct 1970 à Fisher Branch MB, âge : 94 ans,
sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB,
Père : Thaddée II MEILLEUR
Mère : Mathildée VAILLANCOURT
Note : homestead NE 25-24-1W, Fisher Branch MB
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Marié(e) 1901 à Grand Forks MN,
7 enfants (3 fils, 4 filles) :
- 1.1. Bert (Albert) MEILLEUR,
naissance 18 avr 1903 à Grande Fourche MN, décès
du cancer. Conjoint(e) Elizabeth ZEIG.
6 enfants (1 fils, 5 filles).
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1.1.1. Dolores MEILLEUR.
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1.1.2. Lorraine MEILLEUR.
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1.1.3. Betty MEILLEUR.
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1.1.4. Beatrice MEILLEUR.
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1.1.5. Beverly MEILLEUR.
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1.1.6. David MEILLEUR.
1.2. Joséphine MEILLEUR,
naissance 12 avr 1905 à Grand Forks MN, décès 27 jan 1997 à Fisher
Branch MB, 91 ans, sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher
Branch MB. Marié(e) 18 oct 1923 à Fisher Branch MB, par rév. Leroux, John I Nicholas VANDERSTEEN,
naissance 6 déc 1895 à Utrecht, Holland (Europe), (fils de Cornelius I
VANDERSTEEN et Alida GRIFFEON) décès 29 jul 1980 à Fisher Branch MB, 84
ans, sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB. 12
enfants (6 fils, 6 filles). | Joséphine Meilleur
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1.3. Béatrice MEILLEUR, naissance
7 jul 1906 à Leramore ND, décès 11 déc 1994 à Fisher Branch MB, 88 ans,
sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB. Marié(e)
26 nov 1927 à Fisher Branch MB, par rév. François-Xavier Leroux, Marius Antonin S. PONCHON,
naissance 22 avr 1883 à La Loire, France (Europe), (fils de Claude
Felix PONCHON et Jeane Marie SEYCHAL) décès 25 jan 1953 à Fisher Branch
MB, 69 ans, sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch
MB, immigration à Homestead NE 20-24-1W Fisher Branch, MB. 5 enfants (4
fils, 1 fille)
1.4. Blanche MEILLEUR, naissance 4
déc 1907 à Grand Forks MN, décès 29 nov 1966 à Haywood MB, 58 ans.
Marié(e) 9 fév 1928 à St.Mary's Cathedral, Winnipeg MB, Elzéar Lionel BOURGET,
naissance 4 fév 1893 à Chartierville QC, (fils de George BOURGET et
Malvina NOEL) décès 3 sep 1959 à Haywood MB, 66 ans. 7 enfants (3 fils,
4 filles).
1.5. Eusèbe I MEILLEUR, naissance
29 mai 1910 à Terrebonne, Via Red Lakes Falls MN, baptême 2 jun à
St.Anthony, Terrebonne MN, p/m à Joseph Meilleur & Edwidge Bruneau,
décès 1 mai 1979 à Winnipeg MB, 68 ans, sépulture au St.Boniface
Cemetery, Winnipeg MB. Marié(e) 18 jul 1933 à Fisher Branch MB, par
rév. François-Xavier Leroux, Marie BOUCHARD,
naissance 24 mar 1915 à Fisher Branch MB, (fille de Joseph BOUCHARD et
Marie ROUSSEAU) décès 5 déc 1990 à Winnipeg MB, 75 ans, sépulture au
St.Boniface Cemetery, Winnipeg MB. 12 enfants (8 fils, 4 filles).
1.6. Rose Alina MEILLEUR, naissance 14 jul 1911. (1) Marié(e) 1929, Donat RAYMOND,
naissance 1890, (fils de Pierre RAYMOND et Valida JACQUES) décès 1970 à
80 ans. 11 enfants (3 fils, 8 filles). (2) Elle a épousé George McLEAN.
1.7. Anonyme, naissance 15 fév 1913 à Fisher Branch MB,
décès 15 fév 1913 à Fisher Branch MB, sépulture au Immaculate
Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB.
1.8. Victor I MEILLEUR, naissance
13 oct 1914 à Fisher Branch MB, "at Thaddée's Home", baptême par rév.
Eugène Alfred Chamberland, p/m Albert (Bert) & Josephine Meilleur,
décès 9 jan 1950 à Fisher Branch MB, 35 ans, sépulture au Immaculate
Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB, cause du décès : cancer.
Marié(e) 31 oct 1935 à Fisher Branch MB, par rév. Léo Marchand, Irène BOUCHARD, naissance 10 avr 1916 à Fisher Branch MB, (fille de Joseph BOUCHARD et Marie ROUSSEAU). 11 enfants (6 fils, 5 filles).
BARTHÉLÉMI MEILLEUR & LUCIE FAUBERT
Barthélémi was born on Wednesday, October 25, 1876 in
Menominee, Michigan. He was the second oldest son of Thaddée
Meilleur 2nd and Mathildée Vaillancourt. His parents moved to
Minnesota around 1880 and settled along the Clearwater River,
approximately 15 miles from Red Lake Falls. He had eight brothers
and four sisters.
In the fall of 1901, he
married Lucie Faubert (Eusèbe and Joséphine, born January 4,
1886 in Grand Forks, Minnesota) on ? in Grand Forks, Minnesota.
Barthélémi and Lucie settled on a dairy farm at Leramore, North
Dakota, for ten years. There, he cut cordwood for a living. In
1912, they moved to Fisher Branch with a team of oxen. When they
arrived on their homestead located on NE of Section 36-Township
25-Range 1 W, the log cabin was not yet ready, so he and his
family had to live for three or four days, under a canvas tent.
During the nights, they had to keep an outside fire burning to
keep the bears away.
When the harvest was ready that year, Barthélémi left his
family in Fisher Branch and went to Fannystelle, Manitoba, to
earn money harvesting. Threshing being over, he came back with a
team of horses and a buggy which he bought on his way home.
During the winter, he got busy cutting cordwood in the morning,
and in the afternoon, went to the town of Fisher Branch to sell
his wood.
Around 1915,
the Meilleur brothers, Ovila, Louis, Julien, Barthélémi and
also Alcide Gamache, Eusèbe Faubert, Honora Bruneau, Ben Payment
and Mike Piette had a hardball team which they named the "Meridian
Team". They wore homemade uniforms and played against Arborg
teams. The women showed no interest and preferred chatting away
all afternoon.
Barthélémi and Lucie raised a family of seven children, of
whom three were boys and four were girls, also one baby which was
stillborn.
Barthélémi became a widower early in his married life. It
was during the flu epidemic after the First World War in 1918,
that his wife died, leaving seven children. She was buried on
December 20, 1918. He also lost two brothers, Julien and Ozias,
and two sisters, Alma and Mélina from that same flu. Alma was
married to Honora Bruneau and she left two little girls orphaned,
which Zéphérina, Ovila Meilleur's wife, took in and cared for
them for two years. All five had died within two weeks of each
other. It was an extremely sad Christmas. Thaddée said, "They
might as well have dug a hole and buried us, too." And
Mathildée added, "If only the Good Lord had spared our
baby." They were all buried in the Immaculate Conception
Cemetery in Fisher Branch, Manitoba.
Henceforth,
Barthélémi lived with his children, cutting wood and doing the
odd jobs to support them. After his children were all married, he
lived alone in his own little house in the town of Fisher Branch.
Once in Fisher Branch, from 1912, he did not travel much, except
in 1928, he went to Camduff, Saskatchewan, to spend the winter
with his son-in-law, John Vandersteen Sr. and Joséphine.
The family of Thaddée Meilleur were all good singers.
Especially Ovila, at a party, he could sing all night, (cause
that's how long those family get together lasted) and never sing
the same song twice. These were all French "Chansons à répondre"
brought back from their native Québec, and it got the whole
group involved. Barthélémi was no exception, he had his favourite songs and everyone knew which ones they were. One would
never steal someone else's song, they all had their specialties.
Especially on New Year's Day, which was almost always celebrated
at Moïse and Délia's house, (probably because this was where
Thaddée and Mathildée lived). After an elaborate meal, the
young people gathered in one room to dance, and the older folks
in another to sing.
Moïse would make his usual batch of "moonshine",
which he colored with caramelized sugar..... with much sampling,
as there were no liquor stores, in those days. It was tradition
that Barthélémi was entrusted with the bottle and shot glass (there
were no Pepsi in those days) and the grave responsibility of
ensuring that everyone remained in high spirits, but no more!
Barthélémi was also a good square dance caller, which was a
must to have a good time.
At the age of
ninety, he could not live alone anymore, so he went to live with
his daughter, Béatrice Ponchon, until the day he had to be
hospitalized in the St. Benedict Home, in Arborg, Manitoba. Barthélémi
was very sharp of mind in his later years. When meeting him, if
you complimented him on how good he looked, (Mon oncle Bert,
vous paraissez vraiment bien!), his reply came out just as
fast, "I always looked good!" (J'ai toujours bien
paru!).
He died on October 25, 1970, at St. Benedict's Home in Arborg,
MB. He was ninety-four years old. At the time of his death, he
had sixty-four grandchildren, two-hundred-and-five great-grandchildren,
and nine great-great-grandchildren. He was buried in the
Immaculate Conception Cemetery of Fisher Branch, Manitoba.
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February 1, 1997
Recherche et photos par Simonne Bernier Meilleur, de Fisher
Branch MB Mise à jour le 2 fév 2004 par Paul
Meilleur, de Ste-Adèle QC
Mise à jour le 11 déc 2005 par Simonne Bernier Meilleur, de Fisher Branch MB
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