Notes for Maurice Joseph Poirier

Family Group Sheet

Notes for Maurice Joseph Poirier

!SOURCE:
BIRTH: 1900 Census; Michigan; Bay Cnty; Kawkawlin twp; sheet 12.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH: HEADSTONE - HOLY ROSARY CEMETERY Moxee, Washington
BURIED: HEADSTONE - HOLY ROSARY CEMETERY Moxee, Washigton

!Note: Headstone has b as 1868, 1900 Census has b as Feb 1867.
1910 Census has age 42 (b 1868)

!Note: AFGS Research provided Name as Maurice Poirier married
Odile Bergevin dit Langevin 18 Sep 1888 Coteau du Lac Soulanges.
(American French Genealogy Society - AFGS)
!Note: Newspaper Article of 50th Wedding Annervsity has picture of Mourice
and wife Odile With Best Man "R Langevin & wife".
Quote
Fifty years ago yesterday a couple were married at a church in
Les Cesbres, Quebec, while the rain poured down outside.
Yesterday they were married again at the Holy Rosary church in
Moxee, while the wind blew bard outside..... Unquote

Rootsweb
Yakima Daily Republic 23 Mar 1942 pg 10] Poirier-- Maurice Joseph Poirier. 74, died Sunday in his home in Moxee after an illness of several years. He was a farmer, born in Canada who came to the valley 36 years ago. The family includes the widow, Mrs. Odile Poirier; four sons, Albert of Naches, Rozeleo and Florio of Wapato, and Walter of Seattle; five daughters, Mrs. Albertine Learning of Olympia, Mrs. Ernestine Bouchey of Wapato, Mrs. Celestine Sauve of Selah, Mrs . Loretta Sauve of Yakima and Mrs. Florence Beck of Seattle; one brother Milgire Poirier of Canada; 72 grandchildren and 27 greatgrandchildren. Mr. And Mrs. Poirier last September celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary. Mr . Poirier was a member of the Holy Rosary Catholic church . Chapman & Poulin has charge of arrangements.Buried in Holy Rosary Cemetery, East facing Altar Lot 105 G rave 6