Cyprien-Alexandre7Remillard;
Guillaume1, Francois2,
Francois3, Joseph-Marie4,
Louis-Marie5, Alexander6,
(Alexandre Remillard and Josette Goyette) was born
21 March 1847 at Napierville, Quebec; died 16 May 1927 at
Staples, Minnesota. He married (1) Margaret
Berry on 1 January 1875 at Wheatland Township, Minnesota;
married (2) Antoinette Plaisance (Thomas and Elmire
Goudreau of Deschaillons, Quebec) on 18 May 1885 at Shieldsville,
Rice County, Minnesota. Cyprien-Alexander (C.A.) Remillard grew
up in St. Cyprien Parish, Napierville. He received a good
education for the time and at the age of seventeen in 1864, came
to New York State where he worked on the Erie Canal one summer
and in the winter worked on a farm. The following spring he went
to Vermont and after working two years in a saw-mill at Norton
Mills, Vermont until about 1873, came to St. Paul, Minnesota,
thence to Northfield, where he worked on a farm, and in the fall
returned to St. Paul, where he clerked in a store one year, then
moved to Minneapolis and subsequently to Lake Superior and
worked on the railroad three months. The next winter he spent in
Wheatland Township and the following two years worked in a saw
mill in Minneapolis in the summer and in the pineries in the
winter. He returned to Wheatland and became the head sawyer at a
saw and grist-mill owned by his brother-in-law Prudent St.
Amant. In 1875, he opened a saloon on section thirty-three,
conducted it three months and moved to Erin Township; spent four
years there, and in 1881, became engaged in mercantile business
in section thirty-three, which he ran which he operated from
1881 until 1886. The saw mill was destroyed by fire in about
1883. He was appointed Wheatland postmaster in 1881 and also
served as Justice of the Peace. In the spring of 1886, he and
Antoinette Plaisance, whom he had married the previous year,
joined other family members in Staples, Todd County, Minnesota.
At Staples, he helped lay out the plan for the town which was to
be called “Presto” and was a founding member of Sacred Heart
Catholic parish. In April of 1890 Father Ignatius Tomazin who
was then the pastor of Wadena, held a meeting at Staples where
it was decided that a parish should be formed and called St
Ignatius Parish. During the 1870's and later, Father Tomazin,
traveled to Staples Mills every three or four months to
celebrate mass for area Catholics. The name of the parish was
later changed to Sacred Heart. Antoinette Plaisance was born at
Lotbiniere, Quebec on
5 February 1852; she
died at Staples, Minnesota on 17 February 1932;
Children of Cyprien-Alexander Remillard and
Marguerite Berry:
1.
Emma Remillard;
born 1885; died 15 November 1890 at Staples; buried Evergreen
Cemetery;
2.
Clare Remillard(twin);
born 10 March 1878 at Wheatland; died 18 September 1904 at
Staples’
3.
Henry Remillard (twin); born 1880; married
Amanda Belland; died 1949; buried Shelly;
Children of Cyprien-Alexander Remillard and
Antoinette Plaisance:
1.
Hector Remillard;
died at birth;
2.
Wilbrod Remillard
; born 25 December 1887 at SES; died 8 December 1911; buried
Staples;
3.
Joseph-Eugene Remillard
; born 15 March 1891 at Staples; died 27 July 1974 Staples;
4.
Eugenia Remillard;
born 5 February 1892 SES; died 1969; buried Kalispell, Montana;
married in 1915 to Frank Robischon.
5.
Marie-Louise Remillard;
born 5 July 1894 Staples; died 16 February 1956; buried Staples,
Minnesota;
6.
Praexede Remillard;
born 29 November 1896 at Staples; died 14 October 1985 at
Staples; married to L.J. Kupius;
7.
Napoleon-Louis Remillard;
born 20 April 1898 at Staples; married 12 November 1923 at STFO;
died 1984;
8.
Rachel-Bede Remillard
; born 24 December 1900 at Staples; married (1) ??; married (2)
Carlton Hilliard; married (3) J.A. Loeffler.
HISTORY OF RICE COUNTY 1882. WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP |