4. Octave Fortin [scrapbook] was born on 02 Sep 1861 in St.-Jean-Port-Joli, L'Islet Co., Quebec, Canada. He died 1 on 08 Feb 1941 in Eureka, Lincoln Co., Montana. The cause of death was Natural. He was buried 2 on 11 Feb 1941 in C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Flathead Co., Montana. He married 3 Lena Fredrica Haack on 29 Mar 1892 in Kalispell, Flathead, Montana. [Parents]
BIRTH: Date mentioned in his death certificate. The place of birth is St. Jean Port Joli, L'Islet County, Quebec, Canada. I still need to find his baptismal record, probably in St. Jean Port Joli, L'Islet County, Quebec, Canada.
LAND_PATENTS: Obtained from http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Records Found 25 July 2002 by Shauna Rae Brown. Searched in Montana for the surname /Fortin/.
1) Accession/Serial #: MTMTAA 063888. BLM Serial #: MTMTAA 063888. Note: This record has not been checked against the Legal Land Patent. We don't have an electronic image for this document. Names - Patentee: OCTAVE FORTIN. Survey - State: MONTANA. Acres: 161.3, Metes/Bounds: No. Title Transfer - Issue Date: 4/16/1892. Land Office: Assigned For Automation. Cancelled: No. U.S. Reservations: Yes. Mineral Reservations: No. Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566). Document Numbers - Document Nr.: 126. Accession/Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 063888. BLM Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 063888.
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Township Range Fract. Sec. Meridian State Counties Survey Nr. W½SE 4/ 29-N 22-W No Montana PM MT Flathead SWNE 4/ 29-N 22-W No Montana PM MT Flathead 2 4/ 29-N 22-W No Montana PM MT Flathead Remarks: LOT 2 OR NWNE QUARTER. 2) Accession/Serial #: MTMTAA 065468. BLM Serial #: MTMTAA 065468. Note: This record has not been checked against the Legal Land Patent. We don't have an electronic image for this document. Names - Patentee: OCTAVE FORTIN. Survey - State: MONTANA. Acres: 160. Metes/Bounds: No. Title Transfer - Issue Date: 10/22/1903. Land Office: Assigned For Automation. Cancelled: No. U.S. Reservations: Yes. Mineral Reservations: No. Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392). Document Numbers - Document Nr.: 398. Accession/Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 065468. BLM Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 065468.
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Township Range Fract. Sec. Meridian State Counties Survey Nr. N½SW 17/ 34-N 25-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln SWNW 17/ 34-N 25-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln SENE 18/ 34-N 25-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln CENSUS RECORDS (U.S.A. & Canada):
1871 Canada, Quebec, L'Islet, St. Jean Port Joli, E.D. 164, Page 17, Line 3, FHL film #493,569. Enumerated with Venerand Fortin, father. 1881 Canada, Quebec, L'Islet, St. Jean Port Joli, E.D. 43, Page 62, Line 16, FHL film #1,375,827. Enumerated with Venerand Fortin, father. 1891 Canada, Quebec, L'Islet, St. Jean Port Joli, E.D. 164, Sub E.D. 9, Page 10, FHL film #1,465,827. He and Phillippe were gone by then. 1900 Federal Census, Flathead Co., Montana, Tobacco Plains Twp, E.D. 37, Page 2B, Line 18, FHL film #1,240,912. Octave was not here, and Lena is the head of household. I've looked in the Yukon area of Alaska, to no avail, which leaves me to look in the 1901 Canadian Census. 1910 Federal Census, Lincoln Co., Montana, Joint School Dist. #53, E.D. 45, Sheet 3B, Page 3656, FHL film #1,374,846. Enumerated as head of household. 1920 Federal Census, Lincoln Co., Montana, School Dist. #53 Trego, E.D. 133, Sheet 8B, Page 5161. Online: Ancestry.com, Image 16 of 26. Found 18 May 2002. Enumerated as head of household. 1930 Federal Census, Lincoln Co., Montana, Trego School Dist. #53, E.D. 27, Sheet 1A, Page 293. Online: Ancestry.com, Image 1 of 4. Found 23 July 2002. Enumerated as head of household. IN PRINT: "The Story of the Tobacco Plains Country" by Olga Weydemeyer Johnson copyright 1950 Flathead County Library Call # 978.6 Johnson. Fortin - pages 96, 159, 160, 162, 197, 199, 237, 243. Fortine - pages 35, 105, 107, 183. Online index: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtlincol/tobacco.txt, found 21 July 2002. A photocopied page received from Winton Weydemeyer shows the following:
Phillip Fortin ws an adventurer and prospector and did not stay with his homesteading. When in the late 1890's glittering tales from the Klondyke reached Montana, Octave too became unbearably excited, and went North to try his luck. Phillip, it is said, had some success at the gold game on the Klondyke, but when Octave came back to Tobacco Valley a year or two later, what he had to show was not nuggets but the enormous bones and tusks of an extinct creature referred to by Octave as a "Masto-god-dam." He had picked up these relics in Alaska, and had displayed them about the Northwest as a side show with a circus: his anthropological specimens, plas his extraordinary explanations, had realized him more profit than many an Alaskan miner from his mining. By 1900 the Octave Fortins were settled for good on the Trego homestead. In those days their home was a stopping place on the Kalispell Trail. Three sons, Phillip, Oscar, and Henry, grew up on the big meadows. Mrs. Fortin's brother, Charley Hack, was here also in the early days; he built a cabin on Ant Flat, between Fortine's and Loring's. From the same book on another photocopied page (159) also received from Winton Weydemeyer, Fortine is described as follows:
Along the upper reaches and branches of the Tobacco River were natural meadows of every size, some free of brush and waving with thick wild hay, many overgrown with willows, alder, and red osier dogwood; above the meadows the timbered hills rose in a maze of ridges to the peaks of the Whitefish Range on the east and to the lower Pinkham and Wolf Creek summits on the west. The Kalispell Trail passed through this region, but most of the very early settlers coming in by way of the trail went on down to the open bunch grass country of Tobacco Plains. The first to choose the upper Tobacco Valley were John Beck on Grave Creek, and Frank Stryker, Henry Bierman, Octave and Phillip Fortin, and Lyman and Charles Loring on Fortine Creek. These firstcomers, who arrived around 1890, got the biggest meadows. Octave Fortine, who was French, came on here from Michigan, by way of the Flathead, and located just east of what is now Trego, near Henry Bierman: in fact there are some who believe that Octave took over Bierman's relinquishment. Phillip's homestead was further downstream: his buildings were just across Fortine Creek from Lyman Loring's, on the present Charley Winkley ranch. Octave, stocky and excitable, never quite lost his French accent. He was a worker. He went down to Tobacco Plains and rented land for farming and stock raising until he could get his homestead improved: part of his meadows needed draining; more land should be cleared. With Octave on Tobacco Plains were his friendly wife and her two sons, Walter and Ed Ritter. Here on the Fred Bowman place, Johanna Cuffe remembers: "The Fortins milked many cows, kept the cream in the cold spring waters, and made many pounds of butter which they sent to Kalispell by wagon." Later the Octave Fortins lived for a while with Joe Peltier on the Pine Grove. NATURALIZATION: about 1887 or 1888 in Kalispell, MT. Obtained from Kootenia National Forest Records of Grazing Permit Applications.
DEATH: Record came from MT Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences. Cogswell Building, Helena, Montana.
OBITUARIES: Photoopies obtained from Melba T. Wickes, 134 Lawrence Lane, Kalispell, Montana 59901 (She is a member of the Flathead Valley Historical Society).
THE DAILY INTERLAKE, 9 Feb1941, OCTAVE FORTINE Octave Fortine passed away today at the Eureka hospital. The body is being brought to the Waggener and Campbell chapel at Kalispell and service arrangements will be announced later. THE DAILY INTERLAKE, 10 Feb 1941, FUNERALS: OCTAVE FORTIN Funeral services for Octave Fortin will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Waggener and Campbell chapel by Rev. Bert Powell followed by internment in the Conrad Memorial cemetery. Mr. Fortin came to Demersvillein 1887 abd moved to his ranch near Trego in 1896 where he lived until the time of his death. He was 81 years of age. THE DAILY INTERLAKE, 12 Feb 1941, OCTAVE FORTIN Funeral services for Octave Fortin were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Waggener and Cmpbell chapel by Rev. Bert Powell of the Methodist church. During the service Don Shephard sang two solo selections, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. J.M. Carlson. Beautiful floral tributes were banked across the entire front of the chapel and many friends attended the service. Those acting as pall bearers were Joe Tetrault, William Carruthers, Frank R. Baney, C.W. Winkey, Philip Winkey and William Boyd. Internment was made in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery. OBITUARY: Octave Fortin was born Sept. 2, 1859, in St. Jean, Quebec, Canada, to Mr. and Mrs. Venerand Fortin. He was one of 17 children and when he was 16 years old he came to the United States. He became a citizen in Butte. He moved to Demersville in 1887 and was married to Lena Ritter in Kalispell on March 29, 1890. Four years later they moved to Tobacco Valley near the present location of Eureka and in 1894 moved ato their ranch at Trego, where they continued to make their home. Mrs. Fortin passed away there in February 1940, and Mr. Fortin died in Eureka Feb 8, 1941 at the age of 81 years. He is survived by his three sons, Oscar Fortin of Trego, Phillip Fortin of Billings and Henry Fortin of Washington D.C. and two step-sons, Edward Ritter-Fortin of Trego and Walter Ritter of Trego. Also there eight grandchildren and one great-grand child, four brothers in Canada, one brother in New Hampshire and two sisters in Canada. MORTUARY: Records obtained from the Johnson Mortuary, 525 Main Street, Kalispell, Montana 59901. Informant was O.L. Fortin (her 3rd son). Letter postmarked 15 Sep 1989.
BURIAL: C. E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery, P.O. Box 822, Kalispell, MT 59901. Visited 21 June 1991 and photographed his headstone. Section F, Row 80-A, Grave 2.
PROBATE: Obtained from the Clerk of Court, Lincoln County Courthouse, Libby, Montana 59926.
5. Lena Fredrica Haack [scrapbook] was born on 24 Oct 1860 in Hamburg,Germany. She married Wilhelm Ritter, her first husband, on 08 Apr 1882 in Blumfield, Saginaw Co., Michigan and had two sons, Edward & Walter, by that marriage, before her husband took his own life by hanging. Following a move by train to Montana, she married Octave Fortin on 29 Mar 1892 in Kalispell, Flathead Co., Montana, and later had three more sons, Oscar Lee, Philip Napoleon, and Henry Octave. She died on 04 Feb 1940 in Trego, Lincoln Co., Montana. The cause of death was Chronic Myocarditis, Arterio Sclerosis. She was buried on 07 Feb 1940 in C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Flathead Co., Montana. [Parents]
CENSUS RECORDS:
1870 Federal Census, Saginaw County, Michigan, Blumfield Township, Page 27, Line 169, FHL film #295,519. Enumerated with her parents. 1880 Federal Census, Saginaw Co., Michigan, Blumfield Twp., E.D. 292, Page 1, Line 7, FHL film #1,254,601. Enumerated with her parents. 1900 Federal Census, Flathead Co., Montana, Tobacco Plains Twp, E.D. 37, Page 2B, Line 18, FHL film #1,240,912. Enumerated as head of Household. 1910 Federal Census, Lincoln Co., Montana, Joint School Dist. #53, E.D. 45, Sheet 3B, Page 3656, FHL film #1,374,846. Enumerated with Octave Fortin. 1920 Federal Census, incoln Co., Montana, School Dist. #53 Trego, E.D. 133, Sheet 8B, Page 5161. Online: Ancestry.com, Image 16 of 26. Found 18 May 2002. Enumerated with Octave Fortin. 1930 Federal Census, Lincoln Co., Montana, Trego School Dist. #53, E.D. 27, Sheet 1A, Page 293. Online: Ancestry.com, Image 1 of 4. Found 23 July 2002. Enumerated with Octave Fortin. OBITUARIES:
THE DAILY INTERLAKE - 5 Feb 1940 - MRS. LENA FORTIN Mrs. Lena Fortin passed away Sunday morning at her home near Trego. Mrs. Fortin was past 79 years of age and had lived in the Trego and Fortine district for the past 45 years. She came of Kalispell with the beginning of the city in 1891. The body is at the Waggener and Campbell Funeral Home and service arrangements are still incomplete. THE DAILY INTERLAKE - 8 Feb 1940 - MRS. LENA FORTIN Funeral services for Mrs. Lena Fortin were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the Waggener and Campbell chapel by Rev. A. Jordan of Trinity Lutheran church. During the service Don Shephard sang two solos, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J.M. Carlson. An abundance of beautiful floral pieces completely filled the front of the chapel and many friends attended the service. Friends acting as pall bearers were William Cruthers, John Oxender, D.S. Cameron, Victor Wolfe, Charles Winkley and A.W. Hollensteiner. Interment was in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery.
OBITUARYLena Fredrica Hack was born October 24, 1860, in Hamburg, Germany. She was one of eight children and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hack. At the age of four she came to America with her parents and grandfather. They made the trans-Atlantic voyage in a sailing vessel which sprang a leak and the journey required several weeks on the ocean. The family first moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where they lived until 1889, and then came to the Flathead. They came by way of Demersville to Kalispell when Kalispell was having its early boom. Mrs. Fortin was married to Octave Fortin at Kalispell, March 29, 1890, and four years later they moved to the Tobbacco Plains, near the present site of Eureka. They remained there only two years and moved to the Fortin farm near Trego in 1894 where they have since made their home. Mrs. Fortin had been in ill health for several years and passed away Sunday, February 4, 1940, at her home at the age of 79 years. She had endured all the hardships of pioneer life on the early frontier. She is survived by her husband, Octave Fortin, at home and five sons, two by a former marriage, Edward Ritter-Fortin and Walter Ritter of Trego, and her other three sons, Oscar Fortin of Trego, Mont., Phillip Fortin of Billings, Mont., and Lt. Henry Fortin of Washington D.C., now stationed in Florida. There are also two brothers, Herman and Charles Hack of Saginaw, Mich., and three sisters, Mrs. Tony Ritter of Saginaw, Mich., Mrs. Paul Weidemiller of Long Meadow, Mass., and Mrs. Lilly Colvin of Springfiled, Mass. Eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild also mourn her death. MORTUARY: Records obtained from the Johnson Mortuary, 525 Main Street, Kalispell, Montana 59901. Informant was O.L. Fortin (her 3rd son). Letter postmarked 15 Sep 1989.
BURIAL: C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery, P.O. Box 822, Kalispell, MT 59901. I visited the cemetery 21 June 1991 and photographed her headstone, which was located in Section F, Row 80-A, Grave 1.
DEATH: Certified Copy of the Standard Certificate of Death obtained from Clerk of Court, Lincoln County Courthouse, Libby, Montana 59926. Letter postmarked 24 July 1989.
6. William H. Bartlett [scrapbook] was born on 13 Aug 1862 in London, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada. He died on 23 Aug 1952 in Fort Steilacoom, Pierce Co., Washington. He was buried on 26 Aug 1952 in Kelso, Cowlitz Co., Washington. He married Mary Josephine Laderoute on 25 Jan 1888 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan. [Parents]
MARRIAGE: FHL film# 947,222 Bay Co., Michigan Marriages. Record reads: William H. Bartlett; Age: 25; White; Residence: Pinconning, Mich.; Born: London, Canada; Occup.: Clerk; Father: Ralph C. Bartlett; Mother: Unknown. Mary J. Ladroot; Age: 22; White; Residence: Bay City, Michigan; Born: Detroit, Michigan; Occupation: Dress Maker; Parents:Unknown & Unknown; Previously Married: No. Date of Marriage: January 25, 1888; Place: Bay City; Officiating: S.D. Guerin, Pastor St. Joseph; Witnesses: Daneas Bartlett of Bay City & Miss Nellie Ladroot. Note: Or on for Record January 15, 1888. BIBLE RECORD states Jan. 18, 1888; officated by Rev. Gueron.
LAND_PATENTS: Obtained from Obtained from http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/. Records Found 25 July 2002 by Shauna Rae Brown. Searched in Montana for the surname /Bartlett/.
Accession/Serial #: MTMTAA 066324. BLM Serial #: MTMTAA 066324. Note: This record has not been checked against the Legal Land Patent. We don't have an electronic image for this document. Names - Patentee: WILLIAM H BARTLETT. Survey - State: MONTANA. Acres: 152.79, Metes/Bounds: No. Title Transfer - Issue Date: 5/01/1906. Land Office: Assigned For Automation. Cancelled: No. U.S. Reservations: Yes. Mineral Reservations: No. Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566). Document Numbers - Document Nr.: 1222. Accession/Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 066324. BLM Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 066324.
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Township Range Fract. Sec. Meridian State Counties Survey Nr. SESW 18/ 35-N 26-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln NENW 19/ 35-N 26-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln 9 18/ 35-N 26-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln Remarks: LOT 9 OR SWSW QUARTER 1 19/ 35-N 26-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln Remarks: LOT 1 OR NWNW QUARTER CENSUS RECORDS:
1870 Federal Census, Bay County, Michigan, Town of Hampton, Page 24, Dwelling #179, FHL film #552,161. 1880 Federal Census, Bay County, Michigan, Town of Pinconning, E.D. 28, Page 2B, FHL film #. 1900 Federal Census, Presque Isle County, Michigan, Case Township, E.D. 154, Sheet 2, Page A, FHL film #1,240,738. 1910 Federal Census, Lincoln County, Montana, School District #13, E.D. 45, Page 4509, Sheet B, FHL film 1,374,846. DEATH: This info was photocopied from the Kelso Daily News; 25 Aug 1952, p 11; c 1. Copies were made available by the Longview Historical Society, 1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Washington 98632
OBITUARY: Bartlett - William, 93, of West Kelso, died in a Tacoma hospital Aug. 23. Born in Alberta, Canada, Aug 13, 1859. Survivors include a grandson, Victor L. Fortin of Seattle; a granddaughter, Mrs. Kay Stover of Seattle; one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Reardon Chapel. Interment will be in the Catlin Cemetery. The Reardon Funeral Home is in charge.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: Copy obtained from Washington State, P.O. Box 9709, ET-11, Olympia, WA 98504-9709. It says that his usual residence was the Hillcrest Sanitarium in Kelso, Washington. He died in the Western State Hospital in Fort Steilacoom. He was there 2 months before he died. Cause of death: Hypertensive cardiovascular disease and Cerebral Arteriosclerosis, general. Other significant conditions: Chronic brain syndrome associated with senile brain disease.
7. Mary Josephine Laderoute [scrapbook] was born on 24 Oct 1864 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. She was christened on 30 Oct 1864 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. She died on 04 Jul 1938 in Kelso, Cowlitz Co., Washington. She was buried in Kelso, Cowlitz Co., Washington. [Parents]
CHRISTANING: Saint Anne's Cathedral. This info came from GENEALOGY OF THE FRENCH FAMILIES OF THE DETROIT RIVER REGION by the Rev. Father Christian Denissen; copyright, 1976, 1987, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan, 48202.
CENSUS RECORDS:
1880 Federal Census, Bay Co, Michigan, Kawkawlin Twp, E.D. 25, Page 26, Dwelling #119, FHL film #1,254,571. Enumerated with her parents. 1900 Federal Census, Presque Isle, Michigan, Case Township, E.D. 154, Sheet 2, Page A, FHL film #1,240,738. Enumerated with her husband. 1910 Federal Census, Lincoln County, Montana, School District #13, E.D. 45, Page 4509, Sheet B, FHL film #1,374,846. Enumerated with her husband. MARRIAGE: Bay Co., Michigan Marriages; FHL film #947,222: Record Reads. . . William H. Bartlett; Age 25; White; Residence= Pinconning, Mich.; Born=London, Canada; Occup.=Clerk; Father=Ralph C. Bartlett; Mother=Unk.; Mary J. Ladroot; Age 22; White; Residence= Bay City, Mich.; Born=Detroit, Mich.; Occup.=Dress Maker; Parents= Unknown; Previously Married=No; Date of Marr.= Jany. 25, 1888; Place=Bay City; Officating= S.D. Guerin, Pastor St. Joseph; Witnesses=Daneas? Bartlett of Bay City & Miss Nellie Ladroot NOTE: or on for Record January 15, 1888. BIBLE RECORD states Jan. 18, 1888; officated by Rev. Gueron.
LAND_PATENTS: Obtained from http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/. Records Found 25 July 2002 by Shauna Rae Brown. Searched in Montana for the surname /Bartlett/.
Accession/Serial #: MTMTAA 066286. BLM Serial #: MTMTAA 066286. Note: This record has not been checked against the Legal Land Patent. We don't have an electronic image for this document. Names - Patentee: MARY J BARTLETT. Survey - State: MONTANA. Acres: 40, Metes/Bounds: No. Title Transfer - Issue Date: 6/05/1907. Land Office: Assigned For Automation. Cancelled: No. U.S. Reservations: Yes. Mineral Reservations: No. Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566). Document Numbers - Document Nr.: 1662. Accession/Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 066286. BLM Serial Nr.: MTMTAA 066286.
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Township Range Fract. Sec. Meridian State Counties Survey Nr. SESE 21/ 35-N 26-W No Montana PM MT Lincoln OBITUARY: The following obituary was copied from the Kelso Daily News, 05 Jul 1938, p 1.
Mrs. Mary J. Bartlett, 72, died in the family home, 901 Mill Street, Kelso, yesterday of heart failure. She had been a resident of Kelso 15 years. Survivors are her widower, William H.; two brothers, John Laderoot, Kelso, and Frank Laderoot, Montana, and two grand-children, Victor Fortin, Montana and Kay Adele Fortin, Kelso. Funeral services will be Wedesday at 11 a.m. in the Ditlevsen funeral home chapel. Burial will be in the Catlin Cemetery. DEATH_CERTIFICATE: Certified copy obtained from Washington State, P.O. Box 9709, ET-11, Olympia, WA 98504-9709. Cause of death: Coronary thrombosis. Other contributing causes of importance: Senility.
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