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Albert Henry OCHA and Georgina (Georgiana) FONTAINE




Husband Albert Henry OCHA




           Born: 5 Apr 1863 - Port Hope, Huron Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Nov 1912 - Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
         Buried:  - Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw Co., Michigan


         Father: Antoine OCHA (1812-1896)
         Mother: (H)Esther Eleanor Homer HEAL (      -1904)


       Marriage: 13 Aug 1896 - Elyria, Lorain, Ohio

   Other Spouse: Honora HANLEY (1867-      ) - Abt 1887-1888 - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan

Noted events in his life were:


• Military Service, US Life Saving Service Dates with Stations, 1882-1912 - Michigan and Ohio

Albert served at the following stations:
Ottawa or Tawas Point, Iosco Co., Michigan - Surfman - 1882
Portage Canal, Houghton Co., Michigan - Keeper - 1886 to 1891
Grand Point au Sable, Mason Co., Michigan - Surfman - 1892 to 1893
Ashtabula, Ohio - Surfman - 1894 - 1895 - under Keeper Fayette E. Walworth
Crisp Point, Chippewa Co., Michigan - Surfman - 1896 to 1899
Two Heart, Luce Co., Michigan - Keeper - 1900 to 1912
Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw Co., Michigan - Keeper - September 26, 1912
Gleaned from service records of US Life Saving Service Personel

• Newspaper Article, titled Double Recue, 18 Nov 1886 - Chocolay, Marquette Co., Michigan

Nebraska * Lincoln * The Evening News * 1894-05-21 page 7
Ohio * Sandusky * The Sandusky Register * 1894-05-28 page 5

A DOUBLE RESCUE

THRILLING SCENES DURING A BLIZZARD ON THE GREAT LAKES.

Old Superior Was Changed Into an Angry Ocean and the Lives of Wrecked Mariners Hung by a Single Thread - True Tales From the Life Savers' Logbooks.

Copyright 1894 by American Press Association. Book rights reserved.

It was not alone the picturesque wilderness of tempest and flood that drew to the shore of the lake in the harbor of Marquette, Mich., a throng of people on the morning of Nov. 18, 1886, but the fascination which threatened calamity exerts upon the human mind. Prevention and rescue might be impossible, but a burning desire to see and know the worst caused hundreds of townsfolk to quit their warm firesides and face the snow laden, biting air of north-easterly blizzard, which, in the nature of things, must strew the coasts with the broken hulls of wrecked vessels and the bodies of human victims.

For a day the gale had raged over the bosom of the lake and lashed it into a roaring sea. Throughout the wild night the thrilling tale had sped from house to house and flown from lip to lip that the waves had broken over the bounds fixed by the hand of man; that the bulkhead sheltering the docks was simply a lone rock in the Niagara of waters dividing the flood and arousing it to fiercer anger, its danger light tower swept away, its planking wrenched loose from the spiles and a resistless current foaming over it with each swell of the tide, dismantling and submerging the warehouse docks and platforms along shore. Reports of vessels driven headlong before the blast and snatched from destruction by the narrowest chance added to the general nervousness and alarm. One distressing tragedy enacted before a crowd of sightseers on the shore powerless to render aid lent an aspect of realism to the weird and awful scene. A man, in trying to escape from a schooner which was about to crash upon the docks, jumped from the rigging toward the deck of a tug which was pounding up and down alongside and fell between the grinding hulls, where he was instantly crushed to a shapeless mass. Undismayed, seven of his shipmates took the hazardous leap for life and were saved. The same tug had snatched another unmanageable schooner from collision with the half hidden breakwater. These rescues had occurred on the previous day before the storm reached its height. On the 18th, the dy of the thrilling episode narrated below, the tugs were as useless in the leaping sear as a common river skiff in the wildest ocean surf.

At daylight the range of vision was shut in by clouds of snow, but enough of the harbor was laid bare to show the extent of the ravages of 24 hours, the sea of breakers and the vaulting volumes of spray where the waves dashed against the inland bulkheads. As the day grew some of the watchers thought they saw far down the eastern beach the masts of two vessels, which the driving snow clouds now obscured and now unveiled. The spectacle was pointed out to newcomers n the docks, whose sympathies had not been dulled by supping on horrors, and finally a party of men, loaded a small boat upon a wagon and set off down the shore. At the mouth of Chocolay river, some miles, as it proved, from Marquette harbor, they saw two vessels aground on a bar 400 yards from the shore line and opposite the mouth of the river. The wrecks were steam barge and a four masted schooner. They lay stern n the beach, with the sea pouring over their main decks. The barge looked like a complete wreck, being swept from end to end by the waves as she lay low in the water. Occasionally those on shore thought that they could distinguish through rifts in the snow clouds the faces of men peering from the wheelhouse and captain's cabin of the barge. The schooner, although fast in the sand, stood higher in the water and was less at the mercy of the waves. The peril and suffering of the supposed imprisoned crews nerved the people on the shore to attempt a rescue with the means at hand. Five men put off in the yawl, to which was attached a long tow rope held by friends on shore. The wind and surf proved to heavy for them, and they put back again and again. Once the boat shipped a sea which nearly swamped her, and the crew was barely saved by means of the life line, which hauled them back to the beach. A tug then tried to plow through the surf, but was also driven back by the heavy wind and waves.

The crowd at this point was now swelled by arrivals from the landing beach and from the city. Each fresh group had its plan of rescue, and while the baffled crew of the yawl started with their team to fetch mortar for firing a life line to the wreck another zealous crew manned a skiff and attempted to outride the surf and reach the helpless sailors, who, watching the efforts of those on shore, cast off lines attached to water casks in the hope that the current would float them ashore. But the waves tore the casks loose, and the lines disappeared. The skiff made half the distance nobly, then was caught in a powerful current and forced back to land.

Night was now coming on, and the hopes of the would be rescuers turned to the mortar and life line. But the gun had been spiked, and a long time was consumed in getting the vent drilled out. While waiting the crowd built huge bonfires of the driftwood along the beach, coiled down the lines ready for the gun and signaled good cheer to the hapless souls on the wrecks. At 6 o'clock the mortar arrived, and the first shot dropped 60 feet from the vessels. A heavier charge was put in, and the cannon flew into a hundred pieces, fortunately harming none of the crowd standing anxiously about it. The last die had been cast, thought the multitude, whose feelings were harrowed by the sight of doomed men far out in the sear and the futile yet promising attempts at rescue. There was nothing to do but await the breaking up of the vessels, when possibly some of the more vigorous sailors could stem the breakers and reach the shore.

Meanwhile what of those luckless men imprisoned on the bar? Companions in misery, they had been companions in toil. The barge was the Robert Wallace, and the schooner, her consort and tow, the David Wallace. They had been sailing with the wind across the lake, and losing the way in the blinding storm of the previous night stranded on the bar. The heavy seas broke through the upper works of the barge, flooding the engine room and driving all hands into the upper cabins. In short time the hull broke in two, and the after cabins were beaten to pieces by the waves. Fifteen men were cooped up in the wheelhouse and captain's cabin, shut off from their food chests. When night closed in, these men had nothing but conjecture to encourage them in hope. Every attempt at rescue had failed before their eyes. The sound of bursting gun, which, had they understood its meaning, would have seemed death knell, they interpreted as a signal calling for help, and the bonfires lighting up the sea of faces lingering expectantly on the beach strengthened this hope. Had they know that at the moment the means which their rescue would come about were distant from Marquette 110 miles across a waste of drifted snow, and still six miles distant over a beach corduroyed with sea wreckage and also buried in snow, could they have resisted the temptation to jump into the boiling sea and try to outride the breakers?

A message rushed off from Marquette the moment the startling discover made by the yawl crew was known in the city, had been wired across the peninsula and then carried across the lake and up the Old Portage canal by tug, telling the life saving crew of the Ship Canal Station of the danger at Chocolay bar. The dispatch reached Keeper Ocha at 4 p.m. and at 8 o'clock his full crew, with lifeboat and line throwing gun, was on board a special train at Houghton, headed for Marquette, having traveled from the station to Houghton on the tug which bore the news. And now what a thrilling spectacle could it be set upon one stage-the stranded ships; the imperiled crews anxiously peering across the angry, remorseless sea to read in the fire lit faces braving the howling storm on the beach signs of hope to bear up their fainting souls; the speeding train, with its iron horse, bearing in its wake a line of snow capped cars, whose black wheels, whirling through the drifts, send up a windrow of spray matching the foam of the breakers which encircles that perilous lake miles and miles ahead. A half an hour before midnight the relief train, snorting after the hundred mile run, rolled into Marquette more like a fabulous reptile incased in scales of frozen snow crawling out of the black cave of night than a modern useful monster bearing instruments of mercy in its bosom. As the cars slowed up at the station, out leaped the lion hearted crew, ready for the battle with the sea. Across the six miles of heavy beach the equipments were borne in sleighs, and at 1 o'clock the gun and lifeboat stood opposite the wreck. The wild cheering and gestures of the crowd gave new lease of hope to the sailors. Then came the line gun's boom and the steel slug whirling across the barge amidships. But the imprisoned men could not reach the rope, and Keeper Ocha turned to the lifeboat. The rudder had been broken n the reckless trip down and had been patched while the line was being fired.

At 2 o'clock the launch was made, but the first reef the force of the breakers bent the rudder irons and split the timer of the post. The crew retreated to the shore and made another effort to fire a line across the wreck. They succeeded, but the sailors could not reach it, and once more the life savers manned the surfboat, which had meanwhile been repaired. A long and desperate struggle carried her through the breakers, but when she reached the barge she was weighted down with a heavy plating of ice. Nine of the suffering sailors, with the ice clad crew, were all that could with safety venture on the return trip. She was beached at last and instantly relaunched. On the second trip the boat shipped sea after sea and was nearly swamped, but finally the six remaining bargemen, all of whom were benumbed with cold and nearly starved from two days' fast, were landed beside the warm fires.

The trip to the schooner was the most difficult of all. The life savers were handicapped by the accumulations of ice upon their clothing, and the surging of the breakers was tremendous. Their boat was beaten back again and again and once was nearly thrown over at the second reef. The rudder again gave out, and the craft was steered solely by manipulation with the oars. But the crew was indomitable and refused to yield with the rescue half done. Slowly and painfully they labored on, propelling and steering with alternate backward and forward strokes, until at 8 o'clock, after a full hour's struggle, they had the boat alongside the schooner. The return was comparatively easy, and every soul was landed without mishap. Thus a crew of half a dozen resolute men, moved by the spirit of their noble service, had in 16 hours traveled over 100 miles and accomplished a rescue which a thousand novices already on the spot, with all the resources of a port and a city to draw upon, failed to do in an equal space of time.

George L. Kilmer

• Newspaper Article, titled Wrecked in Superior, 6-7 Oct 1889 - Houghton, Houghton Co., Michigan

Ohio * Newark * Newark Daily Advocate * 1889-10-07 page 3
Illinois * Decatur * The Decatur Daily Despatch * 1889-10-06 page 1

Wrecked in Superior
The Steamer Bessemer and Consort Schuylkill of Cleveland Go Down - The Crew Save With Difficulty - A Terrible Storm Sweeping Over Superior.

ISHPEMING, MICH. October 7.-A Hancock, Mich., special says: Steamer Bessemer and Consort Schuylkill of Cleveland, were wrecked at the mouth of the Lake Superior ship canal last night. The crew of nineteen men was saved with difficulty by the life saving crew under the command of Captain Ocha. Loss on vessels and cargoes eighty to one hundred thousand dollars. A terrific storm is now sweeping over Lake Superior.



• Obituary, Captain OCHA is dead, 23 Nov 1912 - Calumet News, Houghton Co., Michigan

Calumet News, Calumet, MI
Saturday Afternoon: November 23, 1912
Headline: Captain OCHA is dead
Captain Albert OCHA of the Eagle Harbor Life Saving Station died last night of enlargement of the liver. He was well known throughout the district. Until about ten years ago he was head of the Life Saving Station at the canal. He had charge of the station from the time the canal was built until Captain McCormack took his place.
Captain OCHA was then transferred to the Two Hearts Station. He was there until about two months ago, when he was given command of the new Eagle Harbor Station.
Six children of his second wife, the oldest of whom is but 10 years of age, and two by his first wife survive Captain OCHA. Monte R. OCHA first is assistant of the Grand Marais Life Saving Station and one of the two oldest children arrived at his bedside of his father yesterday. The other, Arthur OCHA, is on the steamer "R. Davidson" and is expected at Eagle Harbor tomorrow. The funeral will probably take place tomorrow. Captain OCHA was a Mason and the Keweenaw Lodge of Masons will be in charge of the last rites. Internment will be in the Eagle Harbor Odd Fellows Cemetery.

• Military Service, A GREAT RESCUE, 1913 ? - Michigan

A GREAT RESCUE
By Captain Ocha, who, Late in the Fall of 1912, Died at Eagle Harbor Life Saving Station.
By W. H. Law published 191?
Pg. 1-6

The fourteenth day of November 1886 was ushered in with one of the worst northeasters that, perhaps, ever swept over Lake Superior--a bewildering storm of snow and sleet, a regular hurricane. This tempest continued for over three days, and the damage it wrought to shipping was great. Within forty-eight hours after the beginning, over thirty wrecks were reported at Marquette, involving a loss of more than half a million dollars and nearly forty lives. The sea was so violent that vessels at docks were lifted like fallen leaves by the mighty surge and undertow, causing them to snap their moorings as if they were fish lines. Early in the day the seas rolled sheer over the breakwater, endangering all craft in the harbor. By two o'clock in the afternoon the breakers were sheeting freely over every barrier, and little later in the day they tore the wooden tower of the breakwater light from its massive timber fastenings, and set it adrift.

A throng of people had gathered along the piers, ready for any little service, and as they peered out through the appalling tempest, they nearly lost their breath at the sight of a ghostly specter, a schooner shooting madly, with canvas closely reefed, toward breakwater. The tug, "Gillette", gallantly steamed out to her relief, just in time to avert the impending collision.

Many casualties, of similar character were constantly occurring during that awful storm.

The next day, November 18th, the tempest continued with unabated violence. The tumultuous waste of foam-crested breakers could be seen as far as the eye could pierce under the heavy veil of snow. In the neighborhood of the harbor everything appeared to be going to pieces. The breakwater, which had been deprived of the lighthouse tower the day before, now stripped of all its planking, lay bare and bleak, like the skeleton of some monster of the deep, swept incessantly b a wall of water, spitefully spitting its spray thirty feet high. "Great God," exclaimed one man. "What is that I see down the shore, about six miles to the east?" As he pointed in that direction of the lake, others saw two spectral shapes appearing and vanishing through the snowfall. The two phantoms denoted two vessels ashore. The were two vessels belonging to Lorain, Ohio--"Robert Wallace", loaded with wheat, and her consort, "David Wallace". There was a crew of fifteen on one and nine on the other. They had sailed in company from Duluth on their way to Buffalo, N.Y., and were both driven ashore.

After daybreak of the morning of the 18th, a crowd of men who had lined up along the shore saw the two vessels lying stern-on on the beach. They were being subjected to an unmerciful pounding. Immense seas broke incessantly over them, smashing in the after cabin and pouring down the companion-ways into the engine-room of the steam barge, from whence arose great clouds of steam as the water came in contact with the boiler. When the cabin was beaten to pieces the crew of the barge made a rush through the invading water for the forecastle and took refuge in the captain's cabin, shivering with cold and trembling for fear the boiler would blow up. As long as the steam continued the whistle was kept sounding, but so great was the noise of the gale that the crew on the neighboring schooner could not hear it. The steamer had the appearance of a complete wreck; her deck was nearly level with the water, which swept over her from bow to stern. Through the blinding snow an occasional glimpse could be gotten of members of the crew, peeping from the wheel-house and captain's cabin.

The perilous condition of the sailors appealed to every heart. Five men manned a yawl and put out through the boiling surf with a rope in tow, and held by their friends on shore, but they were driven back to the beach. Again they tried, but were hauled back. The crowd on the beach continued to increase, all alive with sympathy and intense anxiety for the fate of the imperiled men. Someone happened to think of an old mortar which was stored in the power mill near the city, and a team was started in all haste for it, the intention being to fire a line over the vessel.

Night was coming on, and the only hope now was to get line to the vessel, that communication with the shore might be effected.

As darkness was approaching the feeling became intense, and the coming of the mortar was awaited with deep anxiety. A delay of hours was occasioned by the old gun having been spiked, and it was necessary to take it to a distant iron shop to have it drilled. "Hope deferred maketh the heart grow sad." Imagine, if you can, the feelings of those shipwrecked crews. Someone started a fire on the shore and willing hands gathered sufficient wood, and soon they had a roaring fire that was not only a means of comfort to the crowd on the shore, but cheerful sight to the sailors. The tongues of the flame streaming into the heavens revealed, through the ghastly whirl of snow against the background of darkness, the beach lined with friendly forms, a restless multitude all full of sympathy and ready for any service.

A cheer went up from the crowd, and everybody knew that the wagon had returned with the old gun. It was at once placed in position for action. By eager hands the line was attached to a twenty-four pound shot and the gun fired, but the charge was so light that it did not carry half way out. The line was hauled back, and the mortar once more loaded. There was a terrific report, the old gun flew into a hundred pieces, and the amazing thing is that no one was killed. And thus it happened that the weary hour of waiting and fruitless endeavor had but a tragic ending.

The boom of the gun, muffled by the roar of the breakers and shrieking wind, was not understood by the suffering sailors, who hailed it as a token that extraordinary efforts were being made for their deliverance. But to the crowd on the shore the booming of that gun announced hope banished and despair begun. It was not generally known that early in the afternoon the level-headed captain, John Frink, of the tug "Gillette", who had rescued several schooners that day, with several other vessel owners, sent a message to the nearest life-saving station, which at that time was the Ship Canal Station, one hundred and ten miles away. Captain Ocha, the hero of our story, was at that time keeper of that station. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when a telegram reached him, having been sent up to him from Houghton, about six miles away. The captain immediately ordered his crew to prepare for the journey. The captain and crew of the tug that brought the message helped the life-savers to get the life-boat on board, together with the Lyle gun and all the necessary equipment for effective service, and brought them to Houghton, where a special train was waiting for them. By a quarter of eight o'clock everything was on board, and then began a journey such as few have ever witnessed. A passenger coach and two flatcars, hauled by a powerful engine, rushed into the darkness and gale at a pell-mell speed, but as the road was heavy it took them four hours to make the run of one hundred and ten miles. Captain Ocha had thoughtfully wired ahead to Captain Frink to have teams ready to the life-boat and apparatus from the train to the lake, and also to procure a goodly number of lanterns and shovels. Not only did he attend carefully to this matter, but he went around among the merchants and made a generous collection of bread, meat, coffee, butter and cheese for the half-starved men upon the wrecks when they should be brought ashore.

It was no easy task to convey the lifeboat and shore apparatus six miles through sections of woods and over hills and hollows along a rough shore, and that, too, in the middle of the night. Sometimes they were in the edge of the water, then in the snow mixed with sand, or floundering in the driftwood, which, indeed, made it slow and hard traveling, so that it was one o'clock in the morning (November 19th) when they finally arrived abreast of the two vessels.

Here they found a crowd of people still keeping the burning brightly to cheer the despairing sailors. The gun was placed in position, and a line was fired across the steamer amidships, but it appears that the crew were in such a weakened and storm-lost condition that not a man of them had nerve enough to venture out of the wheel-house and go aft to look for the line on the wave-swept deck, so Captain Ocha decided to use the life-boat. It was two o'clock in the morning when the crew manned the life-boat, and with great difficulty and danger they forced it through the surf and out into the mighty breakers. There were two reefs to cross, and before the first reef was surmounted, the boat had shipped three seas. The impact of the waves was so great that the iron fastenings of the rudder was so bent and timber split that they were compelled to go to shore for repairs.

While the rudder was being repaired another shot was fired over the wreck, but the sailors made not response. By daybreak the life-boat was launched again. In crossing the foamy reefs several sears were shipped; the ice was forming fast, so that the crew's clothes became stiff. After a long, hard and desperate pull, she alongside, a weird spectacle, so loaded with ice that they did not dare take the fifteen men of the ship-wrecked crew at one load, so they returned with nine. Instantly the boat was shoved out again, and after another terrible battle with great seas that were tumbling over each other's shoulders, filling the boat again and again to the "gunnels," they landed the other six men. Again they put out, now to the rescue of the nine men on board the other vessel, the "David Wallace." As the life-boat was crossing the second reef she was caught up in such a way that she was nearly thrown end over end, the rudder was nearly broken off, involving double skill and labor in having to be steered by an oar.

The valiant crew were incessantly drenched with the flying spray, which froze as fast as it struck, but with indomitable courage they pressed on, and , finally, about eight o'clock, they reached the schooner and returned to the beach with the nine men on board. As each boat load was landed, the drenched and shivering seamen were taken in hand by the good-hearted crowd on the shore, warmed by the great fires they had faithfully kept burning, and were comforted with hot coffee and nourishing food.

The life-saving crew got back to their station the next day, leaving behind them at Marquette many new friends, who, whenever they think of Captain Ocha and his brave crew, will feel their hearts glow with pride at their glorious achievement.

____________________________

The following letter, type-written and signed with pen and ink, has been mailed to every Congressman and Senator in the United States:

135 Pine St., Detroit, Mich.
February 19, 1913

Honored Sir:-

"Please have patience with me as I tell you in this long letter of the trial and tribulations of a Live (sic) Saver and his family, Captain Ocha, the Hero, Patriot, and Martyr.

"Captain Ocha was to be transferred from Two Hearted Station to Eagle Harbor and hoped to receive orders to go during the Fall of 1911.

"The nearest railroad from Two Heart Life Saving Station on the south shore of Lake Superior is about forty miles away, and the only way to reach it is by an almost impassable wagon road of soft sand. He found it was going to cost him over two hundred dollars to get his household goods to Eagle Harbor on the extreme end of Keweenaw Point by railroad and wagons, so he abandoned the idea entirely, as he could not afford it.

Early in the Spring of 1912, he launched his houseboat that he had built during the winter. When I first saw it, I call it the "Ark" for in some ways it reminded me of Bible pictures of Noah's Ark.

"He built a lighter, or flat bottom scow, fifty feet long and twenty-two feet wide, and a house on it eighteen feet long and fourteen feet wide. In this house-boat, they had a wood range, piano and all their furniture, besides three good sized rowboats, with a full kit of boat builder's tools, for he had been a boat builder before he was a life-saver, and usually passed away his long winters in building boats. His sixteen-year-old daughter, Esther, was to be cook, housekeeper and mother to six children, younger than she, for their mother is dead.

"The Captain had hoped to get away in the early summer, when the weather was good, and as a sailor would say "frog along the beach." He was provided with two heavy anchors and heavy hawsers by means of which he could anchor out in sheltered places when the weather did not please him. The whole outfit he purposed to tow by means of a 12 H. P. gasoline boat, 36 feet long and also a 6 H. P. boat 23 feet long. Before it was possible for him to get started, the Fall storms were becoming prevalent; he realized that it would be impossible for him to ever reach Eagle Harbor with such limited power, and very reluctantly he turned the house boat over to his friend, Captain Ludwick Swanson (for a consideration out of all proportion to the service rendered), who with a 60 ft. gasoline boat, undertook the task. This man, Swanson, is one of nature's noblemen, and he risked his life in rendering this great service to his friend and comrade. He had been in the Life Saving Service for many years, and really pitied Captain Ocha in the trying position he was in, and although now out of the service, there was still a feeling of comradeship.

Captain Swanson well knew the risk he was taking, for with a gasoline boat such as he had, he could not control the house boat in any ordinary wind, and in a real Lake Superior storm, the house boat would simply go where the wind and the seas would take it and the power boat with it, which would finally mean, to destruction.

This man Swanson managed to get the 'Ark,' as it was called, to its destination, but it is doubtful if he would have succeeded, had it not been for a generous hearted Captain of coal a coal barge, who gave him a line and towed the whole outfit for fully 140 miles over the waters that were the most dangerous.

When Captain Ocha was relieved of towing the house boat, he took his family with him in his 35 ft. gasoline boat of 12 H. P. and the 23 ft. boat of 6 H. P. in tow, and made the trip over 200 miles, passing along the beetling cliffs of the pictured rocks, where in places for 15 miles, it would be impossible to even go ashore without being dashed against the rocks, for straight above one's head 250 to 300 ft. high, the rocks are as perpendicular as the side of a barn.

Here is a description of that trip by Captain Ocha in perhaps the last letter he ever wrote. I have quoted the letter to his son, now in the Life Saving Service.

Eagle Harbor, Nov. 4, 1912

My Dear Monty:

Well we had a rough trip. We got to Munising at 7 p.m. the night we left Grand Marais (he had come 30 miles the day before), stayed over night and started out at 6 in the morning.

The wind blew a gale off land. I tried to cross a deep bay above Munising, but when we got out about the middle of it, it got so rough I had to run in against the seas and wind about 6 miles to get in the shelter of the shore. The seas came clear over the little boat and drenched me right through the curtains and the engine also. I thought sure she would stop, but she never missed fire. She pitched so hard it broke the lashings on the bed springs on top, and we lost the trees of them of them and two boat hooks.

We made Marquette at 1 p. m. The barometer was very low and the storm signals were up for a N. W. gale. We had dinner at the Life Saving Station and then went to Emma's (his oldest daughter) and stayed there until Sunday morning.

We left Marquette at 9 A. M. It blew quite hard when we left, but the wind was partly after us, and a heavy dead sea running from the North. The wind increased to a 55-mile gale, but we had to keep right on. It got more off shore after we passed Big Bay. The worst of the whole trip was crossing Keweenaw Bay from Point Abbey to the entry (Portage Entry). I had to head in the wind to keep from rolling over. Had all the weight in the stern and then the seas would come on top of the covering and drench me and the engine. It is the greatest wonder in the world that it did not stop. It was dark too. There was a cruiser came along and I followed him. I couldn't keep any light lit to see the compass, but I could keep with the cruiser. When we made the entry the seas were breaking clean over the piers, and they are not very low either. Cold and wet as I was, I kept right on to McCormick's Station (at the west entrance of the ship canal). We got there at 11 P.M. We got out and fixed the children out with beds, ours were all drenched. Burt (a young son of his), had to pump steadily all across Keweenaw Bay. We left the Portage Life Saving Station at 7 A.M. Monday and got here at 11 P.M.

If it hadn't been for the cover on the power boat, she would have surely sunk. She dove clear under and was nearly half full when we got to the Portage. It was lucky I left the little boat with you. Was sorry I had the other one with me sometimes. I haven't been feeling so well since I got here. I suppose it is on account of the hard trip and not being able to get the right diet.

Sincerely yours,

Albert Ocha



Captain Ocha had been put to considerable expense in moving to Eagle Harbor, then came the additional expense of sickness. All the Life Saving Stations in the Eleventh District, the district to which he belonged, responded cheerfully and made up a purse of over $300 to help in this time of need.

Six months of waiting at Two Heart Station, all torn up and expecting to leave every day, and then the nervous strain upon him and the exposure and the want of proper food, during the dangerous voyage he described, and in spite of the aid of a doctor, he grew worse each day and finally died. And the least I can say of him after many years of acquaintance is, Captain Ocha was a hero, a patriot and he died a martyr after having served thirty years in the Life Saving Service.

Captain Swanson, who aided in the moving of the 'Ark" after completing this task at once started back home and on the way was taken violently ill, an attack of rheumatism brought on by the exposure in being cold and wet for long periods, and as he was passing Huron Island, he decided to land there and obtain help from the light keeper. When he landed, he could not walk alone and the men at the light station had to almost carry him. After staying at the lighthouse for two days and getting no better, he insisted on continuing the journey to Marquette. The light keeper said, 'No, you can't go, you must not think of such of thing, and we dare not leave our post to take you, so here you stay.' 'No, sir, that will never do,' said Captain Swanson, 'I must go home to Marquette, where I can get treatment, for I never will get better here.' He begged and pleaded with such earnestness, that finally the light keeper yielded, and he and his assistant by means of an improvised stretcher carried Captain Swanson from the light house down to the boat. The Captain could not walk, but crawled around on his hands and knees, and put the engine in shape and started going, and then crawled forward and sat on a stool where he could handle the wheel and steer the boat. He made the trip of forty miles to Marquette alone, crawling back and forth when the engine required attention. This is the sort of stuff many of the old time life savers were made of; this brave captain resigned from the life saving service, because of the low wages and the fact that there is no pension, awaiting the old men, who have wrecked their lives in the hardship of service.

"How very simple it would have been for the authorities in Washington to have ordered a revenue cutter, that is often at the Soo, to have taken charge of this matter. Perhaps you will say, "Why that could not be done, for the life saving service belongs to the Civil Service, and is in the same attitude to the Government as the Postoffice Department." Yes, I know that; yea, I Know it to my sorrow, for when I have pleaded with Congressmen and Senators to pass a pension bill that will provide reasonable support for the life savers in their old days, or for their families, when a man dies in the service, some of them say, if we do that, it will open the doors for everybody in Civil Service, everyone in the Postoffice Department will be after a pension.

"The amalgamation of the life saving service and the revenue cutter service would, I think, be most satisfactory and do away with objections of this sort, for a pension is already provided for the men in the revenue cutter service, and there are other equally strong inducements in that service to encourage men to enlist and remain, knowing they are rewarded in the advancing years of their lives and for worthy service.

I can easily understand how the revenue cutter boats could make themselves very useful in disastrous storms on the Great Lakes, and more especially on the ocean, in taking life saving crews with all their up-to-date equipment to wrecks at great distances scarcely possible today, owing to lack of outside assistance.

The government builds great canals and breakwaters and battleships, and encourages the construction of large vessels and the building up of a great marine commerce. The men behind the guns as well as the men in the army are properly cared for with good wages and a pension. But what about the men--the life savers and the light keepers, who often at the risk of their own lives are safeguarding our great marine commerce, are they not also worthy of the most favorable consideration on the part of the government, who servants they are? 'Righteousness exalteth the nation.' It is the humanity, the heart and soul of the country that brings glory to a nation.

When Captain Ocha died, he left twelve orphan children, three girls and nine boys, ranging in age from four years to twenty-four, all of them excellent in physical, intellectual and moral make-up, and if given half a chance, will make good. The oldest boy is a sailor, and the one next to him is following the footsteps of his father in the life saving service, and younger boy has just passed and examination for the light house service.

The government cannot afford to neglect these children. The boys will make the best recruits for the light house and life saving service.

Those who inherit seafaring qualities should receive special consideration from the government. The sad plight of Russia today is due more to the fact that here men are not natural sailors, and all the discipline and training that it is possible to give them can never make up for their inherent deficiencies.

England worsted France and her allies at the battle of Trafalgar for the same reason. The sailors of the island kingdom--Japan, have won for themselves and country imperishable renown, because of their inherited seafaring qualities.

What is it that makes a nation? It is not the extent of territory, nor the mighty resources in agricultural or mineral wealth, but humanity. America whose shores are washed by the salt waters of the Great Deep and by the fresh waters of the "Unsalted Seas," has become first among the nations of the earth, because of the development of a race who depend more upon their ability on the seas than any other single fact. Their mastery of the ocean and the display of their humanity and their hardihood upon it, have made them the masters of their humanity and their hardihood upon it, have made them the masters of nations and men.

I have the honor, dear sir, to remain.

________________________________________
I have since received many encouraging letters in answer to this from senators and congressmen, showing the letter was appreciated.
_________________________________________

A FEW WORD ABOUT THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE AND THE LIFE SAVING SERVICE

Pg. 7-8

This splendid department of the Federal Government, the revenue cutter service, older than the American navy, really the mother of the navy, is not fully appreciated because of the general lack of information concerning it, on the part of the public.

The service from the showing of last year's report (1912) surpassed all others in excellent work. There has been twenty-five cruising cutters and eighteen harbor vessels and launches, actively employed during the year. Each of these boats in armed and provisioned and coaled ready for any emergency. They constitute the Marine Police Patrol, which guard the coasts in an unbroken line form Maine to Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico, and from California to Alaska, penetrating the frigid waters of the Bering Straits, and rendering helpful service to the natives of the Aleutian Islands, who are sometimes in the grasp of poverty and disease.

The revenue cutters should be furnished with new and improved and most modern wireless mechanism obtainable that a constant radio watch can be maintained all along the coast from the borders of Maine to the extreme end of the Alaska Peninsula, reaching out to the sealing and whaling vessels passing through the Bering Straits, ever on the alert for a call from any quarter for police duty or rescue work. A total of 260 vessels in distress were assisted during the year 1912, and their burden of 2,212 persons rescued from danger, which n many cases seemed impending death.

Vessels, cargoes and derelicts saved by the Revenue Cutter Service during the year were valued at $10,711,748. Forty-five derelicts and other dangerous obstructions to navigation were removed or destroyed.

Smuggling has greatly decreased in recent years, both on the Great Lakes, and especially on the ocean, because of the vigilant patrol of the revenue cutters. Without this armed coast-guard, extensive smuggling would soon spring into existence along the many miles of coast line of the United States.

Between Maine and Alaska there are 223 Life Saving Stations with a captain and usually eight men of the crew.

Some places along the Atlantic coast there are stations that at present, owing to the changed conditions of shipping, are almost out of commission for the want of something to do, and the same is true of several stations in the Great Lakes. All Life Saving Stations that have out-lived their usefulness should be removed t localities where because of new conditions that have arisen in late years, they are greatly needed. Then, to have several stations, say about 100 miles apart, equipped with a wireless outfit, so that they could keep in touch with the revenue cutters, patrolling the coasts, would render the Life Saving Service more efficient, for all the Life Saving Stations along the coast would be real "Watch Towers" where men are on constant duty from 6 in the morning until 6 in the evening, and all night long, men are taking turns at patrol duty. Every station is provided with a medicine chest, and is really a house of refuge, where anyone who has fallen by the wayside, or has been cast upon the beach from some wreck is properly cared for. This service may in some ways be regarded as the "Red Cross of the Sea" because of its humanitarian records of heroic achievements.

Well-disciplined crews at the 223 Life Saving Stations on the ocean, and the 63 stations on the Great Lakes, all in touch with and working in harmony with the revenue cutters, or amalgamated as one arm of the Federal Government, would make an institution that for achievements would be unequaled by any service of the kind in the world.

In the matter of legislation for the improvement and upbuilding of the life saving service, the government has been liberal. The modern and commodious stations of the establishment, its improved equipment and appliances, are keeping pace with the onward trend of the marine commerce. There are already 146 motor boats at the various stations, and the government is supplying them at the rate of 32 each year. Many of them are 36-fot self-righting and self-bailing life boats.

The failure of the bill that has been before Congress from time to time, making provision for the retirement of disabled and aged men in the service, has been a matter of great disappointment to all who are interested in seeing this most desirable class of public servants provided for when they are no longer able to work.

I find in keeping in yearly communication with all the Life Saving Stations, that there are still in the service some very old men. Several captains of crews, over 70 years old, and should have been retired long ago. A man 70 years of age may be very useful in some departments of the government, but it could scarcely be expected that one of that age would have the nerve and physical endurance necessary in handling a life boat and a crew of men in a disastrous storm.

It is well known that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A man of great age or a poor oarsman will endanger the life of a crew in endeavoring to make a rescue when a vessel is being wrecked.

Here is a statement from the report of the general superintendent of the Life Saving Service that is most interesting and needs no comment or expressions of admiration from the writer.
General summary of operations since the introduction of the present Life Saving System, 1871-1911:
Disasters 22,771
Persons involved 152,038
Lives lost 1,314
Persons succored at stations 23,555
Days succor offered 53,438

Total value vessels involved in disasters $220,649,945
Cargoes 84,371,824
Property involved $305,021,769
Property saved $245,072,864
Property lost $59,948,902

It should be observed that the operations of the service in the early history was limited in its equipment, both of stations and crews of men, but each year there is an increase in both.

W. H. LAW

135 Pine St., Detroit, Mich.

The copy of this article was obtained from the Wisconsin Historical Society Records. It is also available at the Michigan State Library in Lansing, Michigan on microfilm. Transcribed and donated by the great, great grand daughter in law of Albert Henry Ocha, Patricia Wazny Hamp




Wife Georgina (Georgiana) FONTAINE

           Born: Jul 1862 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
     Christened: 27 Jul 1862 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 27 Feb 1910 - Two Heart River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
 Cause of Death: Hemorage (during childbirth)
         Buried:  - Two Heart River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan


         Father: Michel FONTAINE (1835-1875)
         Mother: Marie-Zoe ROCHELEAU (1835-      )



   Other Spouse: Oliver BEAUDOIN-BEAUDIN-BODEN-BOUDAIN (      -      ) - Abt 1884


Noted events in their marriage were:
• Marriage Notice, Marriage License posted, 20 Aug 1896 - Elyria, Lorain, Ohio

The Elyria Republican
Elyria, Ohio Thursday August 20, 1896
Marriage Licenses
Albert Ocha and Georgianna Boded


Children
1 M Monte Raymond OCHA




           Born: 8 Oct 1892 - Ludington, Mason, Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Jan 1958 - Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan
 Cause of Death: Heart Attack
         Buried: 14 Jan 1958 - Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan
         Spouse: Maybelle Elizabeth (Leblanc) WHITE (1896-      )
           Marr: 7 Oct 1914 - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan
         Spouse: Pearl H. CONNOR (1896-1952)
           Marr: Abt 1920-1921
         Spouse: Imogene Jeanette (living)



2 M Arthur E. OCHA




           Born: 16 May 1894 - Ludington, Mason, Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 May 1928 - Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan
         Buried: 



3 F Esther OCHA

           Born: 4 Nov 1896 - Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



4 M Earl Melvin OCHA

           Born: 28 Mar 1898 - Vermillion, Whitefish Twp., Chippewa Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Oct 1970 - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Aurelia O. BOLDAC (1905-1995)



5 M Albert Henry OCHA

           Born: 5 Sep 1899 - Two Hearted River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 1929 - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan
         Buried:  - Park Cemetery, Marquette, Michigan



6 M Elmer Clarence Worthington OCHA

           Born: 15 Apr 1901 - Michigan
     Christened: 25 Jan 1913 - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan
           Died: May 1968 - Glen Falls, Warren Co., New York
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Nora GRANT (living)
         Spouse: Elizabeth (1893-1975)
         Spouse: Emma (living)



7 M Ira Jerome OCHA

            AKA: Bob OCHA
           Born: 12 Jul 1902 - Newberry, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan
         Buried: 



8 F Girl Twin OCHA

           Born: 12 Jul 1902 - Newberry, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 1902 - Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
         Buried: 



9 F Ethel H. OCHA HODGSON

           Born: 29 Apr 1907 - Two Heart River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Mar 1975 - Birmingham, Oakland Co., Michigan
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Herbert RHODES (living)
         Spouse: Anthony Peter SICKENBERGER (1887-      )
           Marr: After 1930
         Spouse: Justin P. BUCKERIDGE (1920-1977)



10 M Lawrence Wallace OCHA\DIVINE

           Born: 22 Jun 1908 - Two Hearted River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: May 1977 - Hillsdale, Columbia, New York
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Ethel M. BUDD (living)



11 M Robert Wallace OCHA

           Born: 2 Feb 1910 - Two Hearted River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Feb 1910 - Two Heart River, Macmillan Twp., Luce Co., Michigan
         Buried: 




General Notes (Husband)

Albert stayed on the trip from Two Heart to Eagle Harbor at Emma Bodin's house in Marquette as a rest stop overnight. - From Aurelia Ocha

CENSUS: 1900 Soundex of Federal Census Luce County, MacMillan Twp., Michigan
vol. 46 ed 89 sheet 8 line 44
Ocha Albert H. white April 1863 37 yrs.married 14yrs b. Michigan CanadaEng. England Keeper Life SS
Ocha Georgeanna wife April 1869 31 yrs. married 14yrs. 9children 8living b. Michigan CanadaEng CanadaEng
Ocha Monty R. son b. Oct. 1892 7 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha Arthur sone b. May 1895 5 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha Ester daughter b. Nov. 1896 3 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha Earl son b.Mar 1898 2 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha Albert son b. Sept 1899 8/12 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Beaudin, Anna step-daughter b. June 1885 14 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Beaudin, Jennie V. step-daughter b. March 1887 13 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Beaudin, Eugene step-son b. March 1889 11 yrs. b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha Ester H. mother b. Sept 1821 78 yrs.Widowed b. England England England immigrated 1845 55
Ocha Benjamin brother b. Nov. 1852 47 yrs. Single b. Michigan CanadaEng England Day Laborer
McIver William Boarder b. Dec. 1860 39 yrs. married 8yrs. b. Scotland Scotland Scotland imm. 1878 12 NA Surfman
Chilson, Richard boarder b. Apr. 1860 40 yrs. Single b. New York Ireland Ireland Surfman
Richardson, Martin boarder b. June 1865 34 yrs. Single b. Canada Eng. New York Canada Eng. imm. 1877 23 NA Surfman

CENSUS: 1910 Soundex of Federal Census Luce County Michigan
vol 51 ed 156 sheet 128
Ocha Albert H. white 48 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Monty K. dau. 17 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Arthur E. son 16 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Ester dau. 14 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Albert R. son 9 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Elmer C. son 8 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Ira J. dau. 7 yrs. b. Michigan
Ocha Ethel H. dau. 2 yra. b. Michigan
Lawrence F. son NR b. Michigan
2 non relatives

CENSUS: 1910 Federal Census Luce County McMillan Twp Michigan
vol 51 ed 156 sheet 6B
Ocha, Albert Head M W 46 Wd. Michigan Can English Can English Keeper Life Saving Station
Ocha, Monte daughter F W 17 S Michigan Michigan Michigan Fisherman
Ocha, Arthur E. son M W 16 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Ester daughter F W 14 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Earl son M W 12 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Albert R. son M W 9 s Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Almer C. son M W 8 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Ira daughter F W 2 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Ethel H. daughter F W S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Lawrance F. son M W 1-7/12 S Michigan Michigan Michigan
Murphy Charles Boarder M W 30 M1 6 Can English Can English Can English1883 Surfman US Lifesaving Serv
Murphy Lucy Servant F W 26 M1 6 0 0 Can English Can English Can English 1894 Housekeeper US Lifesaving Serv

RESIDENCE: Iosco County Plat 1903
Ocha, A H Baldwin Twp R9E 06 1784


Christening Notes (Wife)

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 10 page 113 Record 68
27 July 1862
Georgiana Fontaine
Parents Michel Fontaine and Zoe Rocheleau
Godparents: Narcisse Fontaine and Olive Rocheleau


Death Notes (Wife)

DEATH: Parents listed as Eugene Fontaine and Georgina Rockwalie on death entry in Luce Co. Death Ledger. Certificate we received from the county clerk was in error as it listed them as next of kin. The copy we recieved was transcribed from the book by the clerk. Also, the certificate listed Georgiana's surname at the time of her death as Fontaine but ledger shows Ocha. - Lesson do not trust a transcribed certificate or record even from the county level of records.

DEATH: From Luce Co. Clerk Deaths Ledger
Book 1 pg 44 record 981
Febry. 27, 1910 Georgina Ocha Female White Married 40 yrs. 10 mos. 4 days in MacMillan Twp. of Hemerage born Canada House Wife Father Eugene Fountaine of Vermilion and Georgina Rockwalie of Vermilion registered June 22, 1911
NOTE: Albert walked into town to get a coffin for Georgina in the days following her death so it is assumed that he is the one who reported her death. This came from Aurelia Ocha who said her husband (Earl) always told about being left with his mother's body while Albert was gone and how he felt about that.


General Notes (Wife)

died in childbirth at Two Hearted- buried in family plot there-not on maps

Georgiana's death cert. could be wrong as far as age at death. It does match the 1870 census reading for Georgina.
Georgiana could be second daughter of family with same name if first died. Or the daughter of Eugene as her death certificate (full death record states) as her parents.

recv'd information from Roger on ascendency by e-mail

CENSUS: Federal Census 15 June 1870 Hancock Twp., Houghton Co., MI
Fountain, Michael 34yrs Male born Canada work on farm 800-200 b. 1836
" Zoe 34 Wife " Canada keeping house b. 1836
" Eugene 15 son ? at home b.1855
" Irene 11 Dau. ? at school b. 1859
" Napoleon 10 son ? school b. 1860
" Georgiana 2 dau ? b. 1868
" Cordelia 7 mos. dau ? b. 1869


Notes (Marriage)

Lorain Ohio Marriage Records Probate Court
The State of Ohio, Lorain County
Albert Ocha having made application for a license for himself and Georgianna Boden and being duly sworn, says that he is of the age of 21 years, and has no wife living, and that she is of age of 18 years and resident of said County, and has no husband living, and that said parties are not nearer kin than second cousins.
Signed Albert Ocha
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13 day of August A.D. 1896
E. H. Hannon Probate Judge
A. C. Cooley D. C.

The State of Ohio, Loranin County,
I do hereby certify, that Mr. Albert Ocha and Miss Georgianna Boden were joined in Marriage by me on the 13 day of August A. D. 1896.
T. I. Phillips
Filed and recorded this 31 day of August, 1896. Attest E. H. Hannan Probate Judge


Birth Notes for Child: Monte Raymond OCHA

Stated on Monte's service record when joining the US Life Saving Service as 2 October 1892. Stated on death record by present wife Imogene Jeanette as 8 October 1892. have not found his birth record at county level.

Mason County clerk did a search for the birth record and it was not found.

WWI Draft shows 08 October 1892 at Ludington Michigan.


Death Notes for Child: Monte Raymond OCHA

City of Detroit Department of Health
Certificate No. 535
Place of Death: Wayne County, Michigan - City of Detroit
Hospital: Mt. Carmel
Street Address: 14560 Santa Rosa
Name: Monte R. Ocha Sr.
Date of Death: January 11, 1958
Sex: Male
Color or Race: White
Marital: Married
Date of Birth: Oct. 8, 1892
Age: 65
BP: Ludington, Michigan
Occupation: Model Maker at G. M. Tech Center
Father: Albert Ocha
Mother: Unknown
Name of Wife: Imogene Jeannette Ocha
Armed Services: No
SSN: 364-07-8180
Informant: Mrs. Monte R. Ocha Sr. 14560 Santa Rosa
Arterial Infarction
Burial on January 14, 1958 at Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit Michigan
Funeral Director: Donald Pelton of Wm. R. Hamilton Co., 18900 James Couzens, Detroit


Burial Notes for Child: Monte Raymond OCHA

Grand Lawn Cemetery
23501 Grand River Ave.
Detroit Michigan 48219
Section 21 Lot 211 Grave 1


General Notes for Child Monte Raymond OCHA

Monty took care of children (brothers and sisters) after Albert died -
Story that Monty built a house on Emma Beaudin's property is unlikely. In 1914 he was living on Light House Point (at Life Saving Station) boys were living on Lake St. in Marquette and Ethel was living with the Schaffers in Marquette. Emma Beaudin was married and had children by 1910 and also living at Light House Point because her husband was a light keeper and living on Michigan in 1918.

1917 WWI Draft states Monty had 2 children of his own and he was the guardian of his brothers. Address was 213 W. Ridge, Marquette, Michigan and he was a fisherman and employed his brothers.

CENSUS: CENSUS: 1920 Soundex Federal Census Wayne Co., Detroit City, Second Ave 1457
vol 106 ed 148 sheet 4
Ocha Monty white 26 yrs. b. Michigan
enumerated w/ Samuel, White - relationship roomer
note Samuel White may be the son of William who is Monty's father in law

CENSUS: 1920 Full Transcription
Second Ave. Detroit City 4th Ward 1 part of 6 January 1920
1457 81 118
White, Samuel Head r , M W 45 D , , , , yes yes unreadable US , unreadable US , ureadable US yes Frd M?? Motor Car Co. W ,
White, Sadie Roomer , , F W 25 S , , , , yes yes Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , yes unreadable unreadable W ,
Connor, ??? Roomer , , F W 18 S , , , , yes yes Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , yes office work Adding Machine? Co. S ,
Connor, Pearl Roomer , , F W 23 W , , , , yes yes Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , yes none Home Maker S ,
Charboneau, Selena , , F W 20 S , , , , yes yes Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , yes operator A?? Production S ,
Connor, Bernice , , Daughter Pearl C. , , F W 1 S , , , , , , Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , , none
Ocha, Monty , , Roomer , , M W 26 M , , , , yes yes Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , yes, Carpenter Building Co. W ,

CENSUS 1930
Year: 1930; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Block 1893; Roll: 1063; Page: 58B; Enumeration District: 795; Image: 720.0.
April 23, 1930
3401 Gray Avenue 113 147
Ocha, Monte Head Renting $50.00 x no M W 36 M age 24 at first marriage no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan Body builder Automobile Factory
Ocha, Pearl Wife H x x x x F W 33 M 21 at first marriage no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Bernice Daughter x x x x F W 11 S x yes yes Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Jack Son x x x x M W 7 S x yes x Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Billie Son x x x x M W 6 S x yes x Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Mone Son x x x x M W 0/12 S x no x Michigan Michigan Michigan

Age at marriage is off on 1930 census. Monty was 22 when he married Mabel and was still having children with her at the age of 24.

RESIDENCE: Detroit Polk Directory
1928-1930
Ocha, Monte R. (Pearl) carp h3401 Gray av - intersected by Goethe and Mack
1929-30
pg. 1576
Ocha, Monty R. (Pearl) mach. hd. h3401 Gray Ave.
Ocha, Ralph lab. r1815 Laf. Blvd. (Lafayette Boulevard)

1953
West Side
Ocha, Bernice Fctwkr. Burroughs r14560 Santa Rosa Dr.
Ocha, Elmer (Emma) diemkr h14851 Prairie Ave.
Ocha, Monti mech. GMC h14560 Santa Rosa Dr.

RESIDENCE: 1957 no Ochas listed on East Side
1958
Ocha, Elmer (Emma) diemkr. Ring Tool & Die Co. h8820 Mansfield Ave. Apt. 203
Ocha, Monte R. (Jeanette) modelmkr. GMC h14560 Santa Rosa Dr
Ocha, Wm. J. (Stella L) press opr. MacIntosh h15882 Blackstone Ave.


Birth Notes for Child: Arthur E. OCHA

WWI Draft Registration stated born in Michigan - His father was stationed in Ashtabula Ohio in 1894 but the season was probably just starting and Georgiana may have still been in Ludington, Michigan. I have searched the Ashtabula Ohio births and Arthur is not listed.


Death Notes for Child: Arthur E. OCHA

ARTHUR OCHA
DOD: 5/16/1928 @ age 33
From Detroit Vital Records Index


General Notes for Child Arthur E. OCHA

Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan) 1929 August 26 page 5
Fire Damage
Marquette-Losses resulting from the fire which partially gutted the I.O.O.F. block on Third Street...........................
The residence behind the building on Bluff street, owned by Charles Beaudry, also was badly damaged. The furniture in the building, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ocha, who reside there, was partially insured and it is not known whether the building is covered by insurance.


Census 1920; Detroit Ward 2, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T625_802; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 59; Image: 28.
Lafayette Blvd.
Ocha, Arthur Lodger M W 25 S yes yes Michigan Michigan Michigan Machinist Factory


Birth Notes for Child: Esther OCHA

BIRTH: Registered with Luce Co. Clerk - Birth Ledger
Book 1 pg 35 record 492
Nov. 4, 1896 Ester Ocha Female White in Hancock Father Albert Ocha of SS Station Deer Park born Michigan occ. Surfman SS Service Mother Georgie Ocha of of SS Station Deer Park born Michigan


Birth Notes for Child: Earl Melvin OCHA

From wife Aurelia Ocha
WWI Draft Card


General Notes for Child Earl Melvin OCHA

buried Park Cemetary, Marquette Mi.

1930 Federal Census Marquette City, Marquette Township, Marquette Co., Michigan
Ward 2 Enumerated April 11-12, 1930
ED 52-20 SD 1 sheet 10-B
443 Spring Street Family 217 House 225
Ocha, Earl Head R $15 R no m w 32 married at 25 no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan Carpenter Building
Ocha, Aurelia Wife-H x x x x f w 25 married at 18 Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, John E. Son x x x x m w 4 s x Michigan Michigan Michigan
Ocha, Reta O. Daughter x x x x f w 7/12 s x Michigan Michigan Michigan


Birth Notes for Child: Albert Henry OCHA

Informatin from Aurelia Ocha - can not find in Luce Co. records
WWI Draft Registration states full birth date


General Notes for Child Albert Henry OCHA

DEATH: Aurelia Ocha stated that Albert Henry died during a epileptic seizure. Buried in Park Cem., Marquette, MI


Birth Notes for Child: Elmer Clarence Worthington OCHA

Aurelia Ocha stated that Elmer was born at Vermillion, Michigan - have not confirmed


Christening Notes for Child: Elmer Clarence Worthington OCHA

First United Methodist Church Records 1897-1957
Baptism:
1913 Jan. 25 Elmer Clarence Worthington Ocha child parents Captain Ocha living in Marquette Michigan by Walter H. Smith minister


Death Notes for Child: Elmer Clarence Worthington OCHA

SSDI
Name: Elmer Ocha
SSN: 369-03-7946
Last Residence: 12801 Glens Falls, Warren, New York, United States of America
Born: 15 Apr 1901
Died: May 1968
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951 )


General Notes for Child Elmer Clarence Worthington OCHA

RESIDENCE: Detroit Polk Directory
1929-30
pg. 1576
Ocha, Monty R. (Pearl) mach. hd. h3401 Gray Ave.
Ocha, Ralph lab. r1815 Laf. Blvd. (Lafayette Boulevard)
1953
West Side
Ocha, Bernice Fctwkr. Burroughs r14560 Santa Rosa Dr.
Ocha, Elmer (Emma) diemkr h14851 Prairie Ave.
Ocha, Monti mech. GMC h14560 Santa Rosa Dr.

RESIDENCE: 1957 no Ochas listed on East Side
1958
Ocha, Elmer (Emma) diemkr. Ring Tool & Die Co. h8820 Mansfield Ave. Apt. 203
Ocha, Monte R. (Jeanette) modelmkr. GMC h14560 Santa Rosa Dr
Ocha, Wm. J. (Stella L) press opr. MacIntosh h15882 Blackstone Ave.
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Possible: birthplace wrong, but birth year about right
1920 United States Federal Census Record
Name: Elmer Ocha
Age: 18 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1902
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: White
Home in 1920: Racine Ward 6, Racine, Wisconsin
Sex: Male
Marital status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Mother's Birth Place: United States of America
Father's Birth Place: United States of America
-------------------


Birth Notes for Child: Ira Jerome OCHA

Luce Co. Clerk Births: Twin Sister's birth on page 69 Book 1 record 855 Ira Jerome's birth is not listed.


General Notes for Child Ira Jerome OCHA

when mother Georgiana died he went to work on ships for Cleveland Cliff Mines
buried at Park Cem., Marquette, MI
would not answer to his given name went by the name BOB only
from Aurelia Ocha Marquette

CENSUS: 1920 Soundex of Federal Census Michigan
Vol. 64 ED?? sheet 12 line ?
Marquette, Marquette Co. 144 Front St.
OCHA Ira w 277 years b. Michigan Michigan Michigan
Surfman US Coast Guard

CENSUS: 1930 Census Marquette, Marquette Co. Michigan ED 52-21 page 29A
april 5, 1930
Marquette Coast Guard Station
Deegan, Thomas E. Head Male White 54 Married 21 yrs at marriage no yes Michigan New York England - 62 00 2 - - yes Boatswain US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - yes W.W.
Johnson, Charles R. Male White 46 Married 32 yrs at marriage no yes Sweden Sweden Sweden 06 06 x 1892 Na. yes BMIC US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - yes W.W. ??
Bennetts, Ernest J. Male White 32 Married 22 yrs at marriage no yes Michigan England Michigan - 62 00 1 - - yes M.O.M.M.I.E. US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - yes W.W.
Hart, Leonard L. Male White 30 Married 27 yrs. at marriage no yes Wisconsin Wisconsin New York - 62 - - - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Kinunen, Rueben E. Male White 24 Single - no yes Michigan Finland Finland - 62 23 0 - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Ward Ernest E. Male White 25 Married 19 yrs. at marriage no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan - 62 - - - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Ocha, Ira J. Male White 27 Single - no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan - 62 - - - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Canfield, Cecil S. Male White 24 Single - no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan - 62 - - - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Smyth, Charles Male White 22 Single - no yes Michigan Michigan Michigan - 62 - - - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no
Aho, Walter Male White 23 Single - no yes Michigan Finland Finland - 62 23 0 - - yes Surfman US Coast Guard 9993 w yes - no


Birth Notes for Child: Girl Twin OCHA

Luce Co. Clerk - Births
Book 1 pg 69 #855
July 12, 1902 -----Ocha Female White born in Newberry to Albert Ocha Captain Life Saving Service and Georgia Ocha of MacMillan Twp. both born Michigan


Death Notes for Child: Ethel H. OCHA HODGSON

Name: Ethel Buckeridge SSN: 374-30-0140 Last Residence: 48067 Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, United States of America Born: 29 Apr 1907 Died: Mar 1975 State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951 )

Michigan State Death Index
Name: Ethel O BUCKERIDGE Birth Date: 29 April 07 Death Date: 21 March 75 Gender: Female Residence: Birmingham, Oakland, Michigan


General Notes for Child Ethel H. OCHA HODGSON

adopted out at Georgiana's death -
adoptive parents were Capt. Daniel Hodgson and wife Estoria, they also had a biological daughter by the name of Ethel - from Bill Sickenberger Ethel's son.

In the 1930 Census Ethel is found living in Northville Wayne Co. with Estoria Hodgson, 81 yrs. old and widowed, daughter Ethel Pease 52 yrs. old divorced, and Ethel (Ocha Hodgson) Rhodes daughter 22 yrs. and divorced and Ethel and Herbert Rhodes' son Daniel Rhodes aged 3-4/12 yrs. old born in Michigan. Ethel says she married Herbert when 18 yrs. old which would have been about 1925-1926.


Birth Notes for Child: Lawrence Wallace OCHA\DIVINE

Birth record sealed when Michigan State changed the laws due to adoption. Even though dead at the time his son Albert was denied the record.


General Notes for Child Lawrence Wallace OCHA\DIVINE

adopted out at Georgiana's death in 1910

DEATH: SSDI
LAWRENCE DIVINE
SSN106-16-2274Residence: 12529 Hillsdale, Columbia, NY
Born22 Jun 1908Last Benefit: 12516 Copake, Columbia, NY
DiedMay 1977Issued: NY (Before 1951)


General Notes for Child Robert Wallace OCHA

buried with Mother in Family Plot at Two Heart-not marked on maps


Honore (Henry) FONTAINE and Angele TERRIEN




Husband Honore (Henry) FONTAINE

           Born: Abt 1823 - Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: by 1900
         Buried: 


         Father: Joseph FONTAINE (      -1852)
         Mother: Marie Sophie ROUX DIT SANSCHAGRIN (LEROUX) (      -      )


       Marriage: 




Wife Angele TERRIEN

           Born: Abt May 1825 - Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Children
1 M Napoleon FONTAINE

           Born: 19 Feb 1853 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
     Christened: 19 Feb 1853 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 30 Jan 1904 - Hubbell, Osceola Twp., Houghton Co., Michigan
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Hermina BRIERE (Abt 1864-      )
           Marr: 19 Aug 1882 - Lake Linden, Houghton, Michigan



2 F Marie-Delphine FONTAINE

           Born: 16 Apr 1855 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
     Christened: 17 Apr 1855 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 
         Buried: 



3 M Edward FONTAINE

           Born: 
     Christened: 14 Mar 1860 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 1898 - Torch Lake Twp., Houghton Co., Michigan
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Artheline BRIERE (      -      )



4 M Octave FONTAINE

           Born: about uly 1864 - Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Sep 1902 - Torch Lake Twp., Houghton Co., Michigan
         Buried: 




Birth Notes (Husband)

Archives Du Quebec. Repetoire des nassances de Gentilly, Comte Nicolet, Quebec


Death Notes (Husband)

wife listed as widow in 1900 census


General Notes (Husband)

Census Year: 1880; Place: Schoolcraft, Houghton, Michigan; Roll: T9_581; Family History Film: 1254581; Page: 581B; Enumeration District: 8; Image: 0842.
Fontain, Hora W M 57 married Laborer Canada Canada Canada
Fontain, Angin W F 58 wife Keep House Canada Canada Canada
Fontain, Edward W M 20 son Laborer Canada Canada Canada
Fontain, Octave W M 17 son Laborer Canada Canada Canada
lives next door to Charles Pelchat and wife Phiomene (Fontaine) Honore's sister


Birth Notes (Wife)

1900 Census


General Notes (Wife)

Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Torch Lake, Houghton, Michigan; Roll: T623 715; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 197.
129 129
Fountain Angele Head W F May 1825 75 Wd 7 6 Canada Fr. Canada Canada 1874 26 -
Fountain, Octave Son W M July 1864 35 S Canada Fr. Canada Canada 1874 26 All Teamster


Christening Notes for Child: Napoleon FONTAINE

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 9 page 255 Record 12
Napoleon Fontaine
19 February 1853
born same day
parents Honore Fontaine journalier - Angele Terrien
Godparents: Napoleon Godet and Emirance ??atte


Death Notes for Child: Napoleon FONTAINE

Mining Gazette - Houghton Michigan
1904 January 31 Sunday- Napoleon FONTAINE of Hubbell, died yesterday morning at his home, of cancer of the stomach. He came to Calumet as a young man and moved to Hubbell where he lived many years. He is survived by a wife and three children. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at St Cecelia's church at Hubbell.

Houghton County Clerk Death Records -
Vol. 3-p165 #511, 30 Jan, 1904, Napoleon Fontaine, married, 50Y-11M-21D, Hubbell, cancer of stomach, teamster, b. Canada, Honore Fontaine & Angela Therrien of Hubbell Michigan.
from Clint Drake


General Notes for Child Napoleon FONTAINE

Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Torch Lake, Houghton, Michigan; Roll: T623 715; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 197.
126 126
Fountain Napoleon Head W M Mch 1854 46 M 19 Canada Fr. Canada Canada Imm. 1874 26 NA Laborer
Fountain, Armono Whife W F July 1864 32 M 19 7 3 Canada Fr. Canada Canada Imm. 1880 20
Fountain, Melvaina Daughter W F Nov. 1889 19 S Michigan Canada Canada At School
Fountain, Peter Son W M Nov. 1890 9 S Michigan Michigan Canada Canada At School
Fountain, Matailda Daughter W F Mch 1894 6 S Michigan Canada Canada At School


Christening Notes for Child: Marie-Delphine FONTAINE

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 9 page 335 Record 40
17 April 1855
born day before
Marie Delphine
Parents: Honore Fontaine journalier and Angele Terrien this parish
Godparents: Joseph Ratte and Marie Beaul??
record very faded


Christening Notes for Child: Edward FONTAINE

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 10 page 62 Record 30
14 March 1860
Edward Fontaine
Parents: Honore Fontaine cultivateur and Angele Terrien this parish
Godparents: Noel Beaudet and Magdeline Silvestre


Death Notes for Child: Edward FONTAINE

Houghton Co. Deaths - County Clerk
vol. 2 page 225 1898 #668
Month?? 11, 1898 - Edward Fountain male white married 38 y Torch Lake Twp. Cancer of the Stomack born Canada Carpenter - parents: Henry Fountain of Canada and Hongett Fountain of Canada -


Death Notes for Child: Octave FONTAINE

Houghton County Clerk Deaths
Vol. 3 page 49 #26
Sept. 30, 1902 Octave Fountain male white single 38 years in Torch Lake Twp. Run over by wagon born Canada
Parents: Hora Fountain and Angel Therian of Michigan
Record Date: March 1, 1903


Dolphis MAILHOT and Jane FONTAINE




Husband Dolphis MAILHOT

           Born:  - Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 20 Nov 1900-1902 - Lake Linden, Houghton, Michigan




Wife Jane FONTAINE

           Born: Jun 1881 - Lake Linden, Houghton, Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: John FONTAINE (      -      )
         Mother: Olevine CHARTIER (      -      )





Children

Notes (Marriage)

Hoguhton County Clerk Marriages
Vol. 3 page 60 record 674
Lic. Date: Nov. 13, 190? Marriage date: Nov. 20, 190? in Lake LInden
year not carried down the page need to check again
Delphis Mailhot 26 white of Lake Linden born Canada laborer father Henry Mailhot mother Ida LaCou???
Jane Fontain 18 white of Lake Linden born Lake Linden at home father John Fontain mother Olevine Chartier
Official E. P Bordas Pastor
Witnesses: Geffrey Chareteir and Emma Roy both Lake Linden


Jean (Johnny) FONTAINE and Eugenie (Marie Virginie) GAGNE




Husband Jean (Johnny) FONTAINE

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Isidore FONTAINE (1844-      )
         Mother: Marie Louise BEAUDIEN (      -      )


       Marriage: 16 Jul 1895 - Nativiete de la Blessed Virgin Mary, Becancour, Nicolet, Quebec




Wife Eugenie (Marie Virginie) GAGNE

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Children

Notes (Marriage)

Repertoire De Mariages du Comte de Nicolet Province de Quebec
Debut a 1975
Perigny a Zimmerman
La Societe Genealogique des Cantons de l'Est Inc.
16-07-1895 Nativite de la Blessed Virgin Marie, Becancour, Nicolet
FONTAINE, Jean/Johnny (Isidore - Louise Beaulieu) and GAGNE, M. Virginie Eugenie (Elisee - R. de Lima Leboeuf)


Jean Baptiste FONTAINE and Emelie POISSON




Husband Jean Baptiste FONTAINE

           Born: 23 Jun 1820 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
     Christened: 23 Jun 1820 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Nicolas FONTAINE (1765-1839)
         Mother: Marie Josephte ROUX DIT SANSCHAGRIN (LEROUX) (1790-1875)


       Marriage: 4 Feb 1840 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada

Noted events in his life were:
• Census, 1881 Canadian, 1881 - Ste-Marie-de-Blanford, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada

1881 Canadian Census
Name Marital Status Gender Ethnic Origin Age Birthplace Occupation Religion
Jean FONTAINE M Male French 59 Q <Quebec> Cultivateur Catholique
Emilie FONTAINE M Female French 61 Q <Quebec> Catholique
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Source Information:
Census Place Gentilly & Ste-Marie-de-Blanford, Nicolet, Quebec
Family History Library Film 1375832
NA Film Number C-13196
District 51
Sub-district O
Division 2
Page Number 22
Household Number 101




Wife Emelie POISSON

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Children
1 M Cyrile FONTAINE

           Born: 29 Nov 1840 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
     Christened: 30 Nov 1840 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
           Died: 
         Buried: 



2 M Charles William FONTAINE

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Marie Annabella BRUNELLE (      -      )
           Marr: 11 Oct 1881 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada



3 M Henri-Eugene FONTAINE

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Delphine BEAUCHESNE (      -      )
           Marr: 13 Oct 1885 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada




Christening Notes (Husband)

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 4 page 75 Bapteme
Jean Baptiste Fontaine
born same day
Parents: Nicolas Fontaine journalier and Marie Josephte Roux ditte Sans chagrin
Godparents: Abraham Roux dit Sanchagrin and Maracud? Alarie? spouse Paul Mailhot


Notes (Marriage)

Marriage Répertoire des Marriages de la paroisse Gentilly, 1784-1914
---------------
Repertoire De Mariages du Comte de Nicolet Province de Quebec
Debut a 1975
La Societe Genealogique des Cantons de l'Est Inc.
04-02-1840 Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet
FONTAINE, Jean Bte (Nicolas - Josephte Roux/Sanschagrin) and POISSON, Emilie (Joseph - Josephte Baril)


Christening Notes for Child: Cyrile FONTAINE

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 8 page 98 B111
Cyrile Fontaine
30 November 1840
born yesterday
Parents: Jean Fontaine journalier and Emelie Poisson this parish
Godparents: Pierre Fontaine and Esther Poisson


Jean-Baptiste FONTAINE and Marie-Francoise FORTIER




Husband Jean-Baptiste FONTAINE

           Born: 23 Jun 1732 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 23 Jun 1732 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
           Died: 6 Jun 1780 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 7 Jun 1780 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada


         Father: Antoine FONTAINE (1708-1790)
         Mother: Angelique-Marguerite GODBOUT (1703-      )


       Marriage: 26 Aug 1754 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada

Noted events in his life were:
• Baptism, 23 Jun 1732 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada




Wife Marie-Francoise FORTIER

           Born:  - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 28 Jan 1736 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Joseph FORTIER (      -      )
         Mother: Marie-Josephte FILTEAU (      -      )




         Father: Joseph FORTIER (      -      )
         Mother: 





Children
1 F Marie-Josephte FONTAINE

           Born: 4 May 1755 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Sep 1822 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 17 Sep 1822 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada



2 F Marie-Francoise FONTAINE

           Born: 28 Nov 1756 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Apr 1831 - Ste-Henri-de-Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 



3 F Elisabeth FONTAINE

           Born: 1 Nov 1760 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



4 M Jean-Baptiste FONTAINE

           Born: 20 Oct 1762 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



5 M Nicolas FONTAINE




           Born: 
     Christened: 12 Feb 1765 - Ste-Laurent, Ile D'Orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
           Died: 11 Dec 1839 - Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec Canada
         Buried: 12 Dec 1839 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada
         Spouse: Madeleine DION (      -1805)
           Marr: 4 Oct 1799 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada
         Spouse: Marie-Anne TRUDEL (      -1810)
           Marr: 28 Jan 1805 - Ste-Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada
         Spouse: Marie Josephte ROUX DIT SANSCHAGRIN (LEROUX) (1790-1875)
           Marr: 6 Feb 1810 - Ste-Edouard de Gentilly, Nicolet Co., Quebec, Canada



6 F Marie-Louise FONTAINE

           Born: +-  1765
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Louis BEAUDOIN (      -      )
           Marr: 4 Aug 1786 - Quebec, Quebec, Canada



7 F Genevieve FONTAINE

           Born: +-  1770
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Feb 1831 - Becancour, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 5 Feb 1831 - Nativite-DE-La-V-M DE Becancour



8 M Michel FONTAINE

           Born: EN  1770
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Feb 1852 - Ste-Polycarpe, Comte de Soulanges, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 



9 M Pierre-Noel FONTAINE

           Born: +-  1775
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



10 M Joseph FONTAINE

           Born: 7 Feb 1777 - Ste-Marie de Beauce, Beauce, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Dec 1833 - Ste-Henri-de-Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, Canada
         Buried: 




Christening Notes (Husband)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 45


General Notes (Husband)

Bapteme No. 143858
01 JEAN BAPTISTE FONTAINE
02 ANTOINE FONTAINE
FATHER OF 01
03 ANGELIQUE GOTBOUT
MOTHER OF 01
04 ANTOINE LACHANCE
05 MARIE GOSSELIN
06 RENE PORTNEUF
Occupation : PRETRE, MISSIONNAIRE, FAISANT LES FONCTIONS CURIALES


Birth Notes (Wife)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 63


General Notes (Wife)

[BrdÌœerbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s -1900s, Date of Import: Aug 25, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.28005.7]
Individual: Fontaine Dit Fortier, Marie-Anne
Event: Married
Year: 1739
Place: St-Jean, Ile d'Orléans
Province of record source: Québec
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis laFondation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Cinquième Volume, Depuis 1608jusqu'a 1700.
Author: L'Abbé D Tanguay, ADS
Publisher: Eusèbe Senécal
Publication year: 1888
Volume/Page(s): 276
Please note: The province and county are associated with the location ofthe record source and in some cases may not be the same as the placewhere the event occurred.
ABOVE DATE IS INCORRECT ON CD
---------------------------------------------
[Brøderbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s -1900s, Date of Import: Aug 25, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.28311.14]
Individual: Fortier, Marie-Françoise
Event: Married
Year: 1754
Place: St-Jean, Ile d'Orléans 4
Province of record source: Québec
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis laFondation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Quatrième Volume, Depuis 1608jusqu'a 1700.
Author: L'Abbé D Tanguay, ADS
Publisher: Eusèbe Senécal
Publication year: 1887
Volume/Page(s): 46
Please note: The province and county are associated with the location ofthe record source and in some cases may not be the same as the placewhere the event occurred.
[Brderbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s -1900s, Date of Import: Aug 25, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.28005.7]
Individual: Fontaine Dit Fortier, Marie-Anne
Event: Married
Year: 1739
Place: St-Jean, Ile d'Orléans
Province of record source: Québec
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis laFondation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Cinquième Volume, Depuis 1608jusqu'a 1700.
Author: L'Abbé D Tanguay, ADS
Publisher: Eusèbe Senécal
Publication year: 1888
Volume/Page(s): 276
Please note: The province and county are associated with the location ofthe record source and in some cases may not be the same as the placewhere the event occurred.
[Brøderbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s -1900s, Date of Import: Aug 25, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.28311.14]
Individual: Fortier, Marie-Françoise
Event: Married
Year: 1754
Place: St-Jean, Ile d'Orléans 4
Province of record source: Québec
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis laFondation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Quatrième Volume, Depuis 1608jusqu'a 1700.
Author: L'Abbé D Tanguay, ADS
Publisher: Eusèbe Senécal
Publication year: 1887
Volume/Page(s): 46
Please note: The province and county are associated with the location ofthe record source and in some cases may not be the same as the placewhere the event occurred.


Notes (Marriage)

St-Jean I.O. (Civil archives )
No. 239294
01 JEAN BAPTISTE FONTAINE
DECLARED NOT BEING ABLE TO SIGN
02 MARIE FRANCOISE FORTIER
DECLARED NOT BEING ABLE TO SIGN
03 ANTOINE FONTAINE
FATHER OF 01
04 ANGELIQUE GAUDEBOUT
MOTHER OF 01
05 JOSEPH FORTIER
FATHER OF 02
Occupation : NOTAIRE
06 MARIE JOSEPHE FEUILTEAU
MOTHER OF 02
07 ANTOINE FONTAINE
BROTHER OF 01
08 CHARLES FONTAINE
BROTHER OF 01
09 AUGUSTIN ROYEE
10 PIERRE FORTIER
BROTHER OF 02
11 JOSEPH FORTIER
BROTHER OF 02
12 JEAN FORTIER
BROTHER OF 02
13 BAPTISTE FORTIER
COUSIN OF 02
14 JOSEPH BLOUIN
Occupation : CAPITAINE
15 FRANCOIS GUILLORY
Occupation : PRETRE, MISSIONNAIRE DE CETTE PAROISSE

1754 26 août Jean-Baptiste Fontaine - de St-Jean, IO - Sign:non - Parents: Antoine Fontaine & Angelique Gaudebout Marie-Francoise Fortier - de St-Jean, IO - Sign:non - Parents: Joseph Fortier (notaire) & Marie-Josephe Feuilteau

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 45


Birth Notes for Child: Marie-Josephte FONTAINE

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 46


Birth Notes for Child: Marie-Francoise FONTAINE

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 46


Birth Notes for Child: Elisabeth FONTAINE

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 46


Birth Notes for Child: Jean-Baptiste FONTAINE

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 46


Christening Notes for Child: Nicolas FONTAINE

Needs verification


Death Notes for Child: Nicolas FONTAINE

Wife is listed as a widow in 1861


Burial Notes for Child: Nicolas FONTAINE

Saint Edouard de Gentilly Parish records
Registres de Baptemes, Marriages, Sepultures
Gentilly, Ville de Bencancour, Quebec
Volume 8 page 59 S 38
Nicolas Fontaine cultivateur
died previous day
age 60 + 13 years
Spouse: Marie Josephte Roux-Sanchagrin


General Notes for Child Joseph FONTAINE

Godparent to Cyrille Fontaine son of brother Nicolas Fontaine and Marie Josephte Roux at Ste-Eduoard de Gentilly in August 1824


Gervais PEPIN and Jeanne FONTAINE




Husband Gervais PEPIN

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 




Wife Jeanne FONTAINE

           Born:  - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 13 Dec 1700 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
           Died: 31 Dec 1799 - Ste-Michel de Bellechasse
         Buried: 


         Father: Etienne FONTAINE I (1659-1739)
         Mother: Marie CONILLE (1665-1737)



   Other Spouse: Jacques GREFFARD (      -      ) - 7 Jan 1732



Children

Christening Notes (Wife)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 44


Notes (Marriage)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 44


Jacques GREFFARD and Jeanne FONTAINE




Husband Jacques GREFFARD

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 7 Jan 1732




Wife Jeanne FONTAINE

           Born:  - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
     Christened: 13 Dec 1700 - Ste-Jean, Ile D'orleans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
           Died: 31 Dec 1799 - Ste-Michel de Bellechasse
         Buried: 


         Father: Etienne FONTAINE I (1659-1739)
         Mother: Marie CONILLE (1665-1737)



   Other Spouse: Gervais PEPIN (      -      )



Children

Christening Notes (Wife)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 44


Notes (Marriage)

Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes by L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay Quatrieme Volume pg. 44


John FONTAINE and Anne JOLICOUIR




Husband John FONTAINE

           Born: Abt 1866 - Canada
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 7 Jun 1887 - Lake Linden, Houghton, Michigan




Wife Anne JOLICOUIR

           Born: Abt 1870 - Rockland, Ontonagon, Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Children
1 M Arthur FONTAINE

           Born: Abt 29 Jul 1891 - Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Nov 1891 - Lake Linden, Houghton, Michigan
         Buried: 




General Notes (Husband)

Possible son of Stanislas Fontaine of Lake Linden see witness at marriage - Stanislas' son Napoleon


Notes (Marriage)

Houghton Co. Michigan Clerk
Vol. 1 pg. 229 record 163
June 7, 1887 in Lake Linden
John Fontaine of Lake Linden age 21 born Canada Laborer
Anne Jolicouir of Lake Linden age 17 born Rockland, Michigan
Official: P. C. Menard Priest
Witnesses: Napoleon Fontaine Lake Linden and Basile Jolicour of Lake Linden


Birth Notes for Child: Arthur FONTAINE

estimated from age at death


Death Notes for Child: Arthur FONTAINE

Houghton County Clerk Death
Vol. 2 page 69 #405
Nov. 29, 1891 Arthur Fontaine male white child 4 mos. in Lake Linden of Disenterie born Michigan
Parents: John Fontaine and Anna Fontaine of Michigan


John Baptiste FONTAINE and Elisabeth NADEAU




Husband John Baptiste FONTAINE

           Born: 14 Jun 1814 - St. Antoine, River Raisin, Monroe Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Gabriel James (Jacques) FONTAINE (1782-1845)
         Mother: Mary GAILLARD (1790-      )


       Marriage: 16 Jun 1846 - St. Antoine, River Raisin, Monroe Co., Michigan




Wife Elisabeth NADEAU

           Born: 23 Dec 1830 - St. Antoine, River Raisin, Monroe Co., Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



Children
1 F Prudence FONTAINE

           Born: 15 May 1847 - Monroe, Monroe, Michigan
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



2 F Dorothea FONTAINE

           Born: 22 Mar 1849 - Monroe, Monroe, Michigan
     Christened: 21 Jun 1849 - Monroe, Monroe, Michigan
           Died: 
         Buried: 




Birth Notes (Husband)

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-479-480


General Notes (Husband)

Census 1850: Frenchtown, Monroe Co., Michigan page 507 September 1850
John Fountain 38 M Laborer born Michigan
Eliza Fountain 21 F born Michigan
Prudence Fountain 3 F born Michigan
Josephine Fountian 1 F born Michigan


Birth Notes (Wife)

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-page 480


Notes (Marriage)

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-page 480

Michigan Marriage to 1850
Fontaine, John Nadeau, Elizabeth 16 Aug 1846 Michigan Monroe County


Birth Notes for Child: Prudence FONTAINE

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-page 480


Birth Notes for Child: Dorothea FONTAINE

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-page 480


Christening Notes for Child: Dorothea FONTAINE

Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Volume I - Rev. Christian Denissen 1987 revision-page 480




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