Hi all! Forwarding with permission. Can anybody help Victoria out? Happy Hunting! Marsha Wilcox mwilcox@lnd.com Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/index.html USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm SpamHunt! -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1616/ Vml821@aol.com wrote: > > I need help finding my Grandfather Adelin LeComte in any records. He came > here from Belgium around 1888 and worked as a lumberjack in Oconto. He had > two brothers that also worked with him in the woods. Gustave and Freeman (he > changed his name to Freeman and we don't know what his real name was) > LeComte. Adelin married Marie Clare Picard Goulin, a widow. Her first husband > was killed in a papermill accident in Peshtigo. This is about all I know > right now. Both are buried in Oconto. Victoria LeComte VML821@AOL.COM > Thank you for any help. And then she wrote: > I have just started this and am kind of picking my way through some of my Father's > things. One being my Grandmothers Diary. She had several referals to the fact that > her first husband (named Goulin or Golin ) was killed in a pulp machine and all they > had to bury would fit in a shoe box. I think it was in Peshtigo where they lived. I > think Granny grew up there because she also talks about the Peshtigo fire in the > diary. It was bigger than the Great Chicago Fire. It also occurred at the > same time. She said the air was so hot that you had to keep going into the > river and ducking down so your hair wouldn't catch on fire. She also > talked about an Indian that did some work for he father named Ol Patchnose. I > guess he wore a patch where his nose used to be. He told her somebody bit it off > in a fight but later heard his wife did it. I know she had a daughter by this > first marriage named Barbara. I also think her oldest brother left home > before she was born. She used to write letters to him in The Yukon twice a > year so the boat would take her letters in the spring and fall. I think > Peter Picard was in Dawson City. Don't think he ever married. So you can see I > do have some info but don't know what to do with it. I need threads to pull > it all together. I do have some more info but I guess this is longer than I > had intended to write I just sort of got carried away. I tend to do that when > I start to talk about the things I have found out. By the way both Marie > Clare and Adelin are buried in Oconto. I also think their daughter Virginia is > buried in the same place. I was there as a child but don't remember too much > about it. I have a hard time going up there seeing as I don't drive any > more. I'm sorry for bending your ear or should I say Eyes.. Please foreward any > info to anybody that might help. Thank you very much for your interest. > Victoria > E-mail at vml821@aol.com