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Post by madrock on Feb 1, 2012 7:09:54 GMT -5
Created from a post on another thread. Here is an excellent memoir by Antoine Grignon, a Wapasha descendant who lived at Trempealeau: trempealeau.wigenweb.org/histories/1917trempco/chapter10/02grignon.htm[/quote]Added Note: Dr. Eben Douglas Pierce (1874-  ?) was a member of the Wisconsin State and Trempealeau County [WI] Historical Societies. He has written a biography of Antoine Grignon, a short history of the Winnebago Indians, and has contributed several articles on the history of Trempealeau County. The doctor devotes his time to the practice of his profession and research and to his literary and historical writing. Mrs. (Hettie) Pierce (1871-1960) took charge of the village library. |
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Post by mink on Feb 1, 2012 19:10:16 GMT -5
This footnote from the memoir gives information about our tale-spinner Lafayette Bunnell:
"15 - Willard B. Bunnell was born in 1814 at Homer, N. Y. He ran away and sailed upon the Great Lakes as pilot until 1832, when he settled at Detroit and there married, in 1837, Matilda Nesnoyer. Having entered the fur trade, he spent the winter of 1841-42 at the site of Escanaba, Mich.; then removed West, arriving in Trempealeau, July, 1842. In 1848 he made arrangements to remove to the Minnesota side of the river, where he occupied in 1849, by permission of the chief, Wabashaw, the site of the village of Homer. There he died in 1861. His brother, Lafayette Houghton, was born in 1824, removed to Detroit in 1832, and accompanied his brother to Wisconsin in 1841-42. He enlisted in the Mexican War, sought for gold in California, and after studying medicine, enlisted as surgeon of the 36th Wisconsin Infantry, and in 1865 served in the same capacity in the 1st Minnesota Battalion. He was the historian of Winona, Minn., where he died in 1903. - ED."
Lafayette Bunnel not coming to Wisconsin until 1841-42 ties right in with his having known the earliest fur traders at La Crosse, who also did not come there until 1841 at least.
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Post by hermin1 on Feb 9, 2012 17:20:13 GMT -5
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Post by mink on Feb 9, 2012 17:51:51 GMT -5
What a wealth of information. Wonderful. Even a photo of Grignon. What more could one ask?
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Post by madrock on Feb 10, 2012 6:42:40 GMT -5
That is a really great family website. I had never seen it before and I'm almost tempted to remove my crudely designed websites from the Interest in embarrassment of their effort! |
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Post by madrock on Feb 10, 2012 6:52:41 GMT -5
What a wealth of information. Wonderful. Even a photo of Grignon. What more could one ask? One of the photos of him was contributed by Doris Deutsch who I know; I graduated in the same 1953 class with her older brother. One of my sisters was in the same class as Doris and her twin sister Delores. Another sister of mine, who died young, is the only Ebersold buried in the old Catholic cemetery, also with only a wooden cross marker. The current headstone was added just a few years ago. |
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Post by hermin1 on Feb 11, 2012 9:05:51 GMT -5
madrock,don't sell yourself short. You have a great website!!!
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Post by mink on Feb 19, 2012 14:19:39 GMT -5
[/quote] There is an error in a footnote to this part of the text: "When I was a little past twelve years of age I went to school to Rev. Joseph Cretin, a Catholic clergyman, who afterwards became bishop in St. Paul.8 " Contrary to footnote 8 [and this might avoid confusion for those who consult the old St. Gabriel's records in the LaCrosse diocese], Father Augustin Ravoux was serving as pastor at St. Gabriel Archangel Catholic Church at Prairie du Chien but, in September of 1841, he was sent to the future Minnesota Territory to convert the Sioux. His place at St. Gabriel's was taken by Father Joseph Cretin, who remained there for a few years. From the date he gives as the year of his birth, Antoine Grignon should, indeed, have been around 13 in 1841 and could have taken instruction from Cretin in his home town--and not in Dubuque. |
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?) was a member of the Wisconsin State and Trempealeau County [WI] Historical Societies. He has written a biography of Antoine Grignon, a short history of the Winnebago Indians, and has contributed several articles on the history of Trempealeau County. The doctor devotes his time to the practice of his profession and research and to his literary and historical writing. Mrs. (Hettie) Pierce (1871-1960) took charge of the village library.
