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Joseph7 Rémillard; Francois2, Francois3; Joseph-Marie4; Jean-Marie5; Joseph6;(Joseph Rémillard & Marie-Julie Menard); baptized on 21 March 1836 at Henryville (St-George-de-Noyan); married 1861 at Montreal (Notre-Dame) to Rose-Adeline Bertrand. Shortly after their marriage they went to Dubuque, Iowa where Joseph had lived since 1854. Joseph Remillard left Dubuque in 1864 and went to Jefferson Township, Union County, South Dakota with his wife and two children. He lived at first with his father, Joseph Remillard, Sr., who had come the previous year.
Note: Dr. Nancy McCahren on French Settlers, (1988). "Those French who crossed the Missouri River and came to South Dakota first settled in southern Union and Clay Counties. Among the early settlers in Jefferson, Elk Point, and Civil Bend Townships, all in Union County, were the families of Albert LaBrune, Alexander Duhaime, Marc Chicoine, David Remillard, R. J. Authier, Charles LaBreche, Philippe Beauchemin, Joseph Yerter, Clement Guillaume, Abraham Chaussee, Charles LeMoges, and the LeMeres.
Joseph Remillard, the younger freighted at first for the government. About a year later, forty-eight wagons hauled freight from Sioux City to Sioux Falls for a body of soldiers under Col. Pattee. Nearly or all of the teams were oxen. Two yokes were hitched to 35 hundredweight loads, three yokes to loads of 45 hundredweight. At Sioux City Col. Pattee gave the teamsters permission to go to their homes to spend the night, ordering them to meet with his troops the next day at Richland. This they did.
At Brule Creek, near Richland, next day, a soldier met the teamsters as they came, directing them to Pattee's camp down in a bend of the Big Sioux, to the east. He told them they were to follow Pattee and his ambulances. Remillard objected to this; he had talked with one Jim Ross, a trapper who was familiar with the country, and he thought it better to travel by the directions Ross had given than to follow the lead of the officer, who was a stranger to the land. The soldier threatened Remillard with his gun, to compel him to obey instructions; but the driver ran to his wagon and took up his own gun, showing fight. Thereupon the soldier went to report to camp; returning, he told the teamsters that they might travel as they wished, if they would first come to camp. They went and spent the night there.
The next day Jim Ross turned up and acted as guide to the wagon-train. Col. Pattee went on ahead. At Pattee's Creek, in Lincoln County, they found his camp fires still burning. They had much difficulty in crossing the slough, which they named for their leader, Pattee's Creek. It took them all day to cross; they put as many as a dozen teams to a single wagon, using three or four chains, many of which broke. When they reached Sioux Falls they piled the freight on the ground and in a roofless building. There was no better place; but on a later trip they found that more buildings had been erected.
Mr. Remillard made quite a number of trips up the Missouri River in after years, driving to Vermilion, the Eight-Mile House, Jim River, Yankton, Bon Homme, Manuel Creek, Chouteau Creek, Yankton Agency, White Swan (a few little buildings with Ft. Randall opposite on the other side of the river), Pease Creek, Bijou Hills, American Creek, Crow Creek, Ft. Thompson, Chene de Roche (a small creek whose French name meant fence of rock), Chappelle Creek, a small group of houses whose appellation Mr. Remillard did not recall, then Ft. Pierre. This fort was afterwards moved farther up the river. In 1879 Mr. Remillard hauled a load of cheese from Elk Point to Ft. Pierre, then to Deadwood. One wagon in the company, with a German driver, waited two weeks at Ft. Pierre to get in with a large enough number of wagons to be safe in case of an attack by Indians.
Mr. Remillard's farm home was a little northwest of Jefferson, but in his age he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Randolph, in Elk Point.
Citation: SOUTH DAKOTA Historical Collections ILLUSTRATED; pages 541-542; Compiled by the STATE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY; VOLUME X; 1920 ; Pierre, South Dakota ;
The name Joseph Remillard is recorded on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) documents # 158 (Accession/Serial # SDMTAA 023171 issued January 6, 1873 and SDMTAA 023454 issued 25 February 1887.
French Settlers of Union County, South Dakota
Children of Joseph Remillard and Rose Adeline Bertrand; 1. Joseph Remillard, born April 1862 at Dubuque, Iowa; died January 15, 1906 at Sioux City, Iowa; 2. Charles Remillard, born about 1881; Charles Remillard, Ten children. five living in 1900; GENERATION VIII
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