The Man of the House is Home!

In the book Harps Upon the Willows there mentions the story of how Chief Waubojeeg's wigwam had a post outside the entrance in which the family would place a carved owl on top of whenever Waubojeeg was home. My husband liked that part of the story, so today when I was at Goodwill, I found a smaller-sized wooden owl and purchased it for him.

Now Paul puts the owl in the window sill when he is home....quite humorous. (see picture)

desCarreaux and St Arnold

Mary desCarreaux married Eloi (Edward) St Arnold I believe in MN. They moved back to the LaPointe area in WI and had Marguerite, Margaritha, Madeline, Henricus and Edwardus.

We know very little about the St Arnolds other than they were in MI at one point and moved to LaPointe. Marguerite (next in line in the family tree) married August Bachand from MI which is where the L'Anse / Keweenaw Bay Tribal history comes in.

Marguerite (Margaret) and August Bachand had six children: Esther, Virginia, James, Edward, Nancy and Ivy. What is more interesting is ALL of these children ended up moving back to Ashland (Bad River) Odanah and died there as well. Nancy Bachand (b1870) would be Paul's G, G, Grandmother. I wish we had picture of Nancy. We think that maybe she is in an old photo of Hotel Murray in Odanah WI on the balcony - but this is only speculation. I would LOVE to see what she looked like because our daughter Margaret looks almost identical to Nancy's daughter Martha Wood (Paul's G Grandmother). I will post a picture comparison in the next couple days.

Waubojeeg's Unknown Daughter

I realize this post is a bit of a repeat - but it puts us back into Paul's direct lineage. I will pick up from where I had left off....

So it is noted that Chief Waubojeeg had 6 children...one of them with a name that is not known. It only figures that this would be the daughter that links into my husband's direct lineage.

This particular daughter married Francios desCarreaux a French fur trader. They married somewhere between Bayfield and Ashland and moved to Leech Lake MN to raise their family. We have a little information regarding Francios from a military journal by Alexander Henry and states the following:

"18, May 1804. One of my men Mr. Hesse, arrived from Red Lake in 13 days bringing 12 kegs of suagr and a few beaver skins. One of my men Des Carreaux was shot in the thigh by an Indian. The shot was intended for Mr. Cotten."

Francios and "Unknown Daughter of Waubojeeg" had 4 children: Susan, Marguerite, Henry and Mary. Francios' wife died shortly after the birth of Mary. Francios died at Leech Lake in 1816 and it was his wish they attend a mission school. All of the childred did except for the baby, Mary who was secreted away by her Grandmother up the Bad River to live with her Native people.

It is a matter of record that Chief Waubojeeg insisted that his daughters who married white men be married in the Roman Catholic church, but so far the Des Carreaux marriage record has not been found.