FOURTH GENERATION

10. Louis Beaudin was born on 23 Jun 1861 in L'Assomption, Grande-Riviere, Quebec. ⁽⁵⁾ He died on 25 Dec 1918 in Newberry, MI. He was buried in Newberry, MI. He was 5th of 10 children. His brother Fred ( Louis Alfred), who also migrated from the Gaspe Peninsula to Newberry, MI was the 8th child. Louis probably was working in a sawmill near Manitoulin Island, Ontario, at the time of his marriage. We do not yet know when and why Josephine Nadeau migrated from Quebec to near Manitoulin Island prior to her marriage. Following the birth of two children near Manitoulin Island, the family migrated to Newberry, MI in 1888. Louis worked as a sawyer in Newberry. My father was only three years old when his grandfather Louis Beaudin died at Christmas 1918. The death of his grandfather is one of my father's earliest memories.

He was married to Josephine Nadeau on 19 Jul 1885 in Wikwemikong, Manitoulin, Ontario.

11. Josephine Nadeau was born on 17 Sep 1867. She died on 31 Dec 1962 in Newberry, MI. ⁽⁶⁾ She was buried in Newberry, MI.

When I think of my great-grandmother Josephine Nadeau as a young lady in Quebec, I imagine that she too, in the 1880s, would have been faced with choices about remaining in Quebec, or leaving to live her life elsewhere. The following is an excerpt from Maria Chapdelaine: a Tale of the Lake St. John Country, by Louis Hemon (translated by W.H. Blake), New York: MacMillan, 1921. We will never know if our ancestor Josephine had similar thoughts. Marie Chapdelaine remained in Quebec. Our ancestor Josephine, probably born in Quebec, was in Ontario, near Manitoulin Island, when she married Louis Beaudin in 1885. [ PJG]

....Maria shuddered; the emotion which had glowed in her heart was dying; once again she said to herself: "And yet it is a harsh land, this land of ours...Why should I linger here?"
Then it was that a third voice, mightier than the others, lifted itself up in the silence; the voice of Quebec -- now the song of a woman, now the exhortation of a priest....
Thus spake the voice:--"Three hundred years ago we came, and we have remained...They who led us hither might return among us without knowing shame or sorrow, for if it be true that we have little learned, most surely nothing is forgot.
"We bore oversea our prayers and our songs; they are ever the same. We carried in our bosoms the hearts of the men of our fatherland, brave and merry, easily moved to pity as to laughter, of all human hearts the most human; nor have they changed. We traced the boundaries of a new continent, from Gaspe to Montreal, from St. Jean d'Iberville to Ungava, saying as we did it: -- Within these limits all we brought with us, our faith, our tongue, our virtues, our very weaknesses are henceforth hallowed things which no hand may touch, which shall endure to the end.
"Strangers have surrounded us whom it is our pleasure to call foreigners; they have taken into their hands most of the rule, they have gathered to themselves much of the wealth; but in this land of Quebec nothing has changed. Nor shall anything change, for we are the pledge of it. Concerning ourselves and our destiny but one duty have we clearly understood: that we should hold fast -- should endure. And we have held fast, so that, it may be, many centuries hence the world will look upon us and say:-- These people are of a race that knows not how to perish ...We are a testimony. "For this is it that we must abide in that Province where our fathers dwelt, living as they have lived, so to obey the unwritten command that once shaped itself in their hearts, that passed to ours, which we in turn must hand on to descendants innumerable: --In this land of Quebec naught shall die and naught shall suffer change..." Marie Chapdelaine awaked from her dream to the thought: --"So I shall stay -- shall stay here after all!" For the voices had spoken commandingly and she knew she could not choose but to obey....
...Throughout the hours of the night Maria moved not; with hands folded in her lap, patient of spirit and without bitterness, yet dreaming a little wistfully of the far-off wonders her eyes would never behold and of the land wherein she was bidden live with its store of sorrowful memories; of the living flame which her heart had known awhile and lost forever, and the deep snowy woods whence too daring youths shall no more return.

An excerpt from Maria Chapdelaine: a Tale of the Lake St. John Country, by Louis Hemon (translated by W.H. Blake), New York: MacMillan, 1921.

Children were:

5 i. Emma Marie Beaudin.
ii. Marie-Josephine-Antonia (Tina) Beaudin (Private).
iii. Flora Beaudin was born in Oct 1889 in Newberry, MI. She died in Jun 1976 in IL.⁽⁷⁾
iv. Frederick Beaudin was born in Feb 1891 in Newberry, MI. He died on 11 Jan 1992.⁽⁷⁾
v. Louis Nazaire Beaudin was born on 6 Dec 1893 in Newberry, MI. He died on 10 Aug 1950. He was buried in Newberry, MI. All of the information on the descendants of Louis Nazaire Beaudin was provided by Donna Mae Emanuelson Beaudin (daughter-in-law) of Marquette, MI.
vi. Charles Beaudin was born on 31 Aug 1895 in Newberry, MI. He died on 28 Jan 1954. He was buried in Newberry, MI.
vii. Joseph Beaudin was born on 10 Jun 1900 in Newberry, MI. He died on 17 Jan 1919 in Newberry, MI.
viii. Maurice Francis Beaudin was born on 23 Jan 1903 in Dollarville, MI. He died on 13 Jan 1960 in Newberry, MI.
ix. Mary Helen Beaudin was born on 21 Apr 1906 in Newberry, MI. She died on 13 Oct 1917 in Newberry, MI.