Misc. Notes
“Fred” Hebert and “Maggie” Grant met at an Ashland, Wisconsin boarding house called the Wisconsin House, located behind the nunnery of St. Agnes Church and School. The boarding house was operated by Hazel’s uncle, Joe Grant and Maggie was a housekeeper and cook for the boarders. Hazel’s father, Fred, was a lumberjack who stayed at the boarding house. After Fred and Maggie were marrried in 1907 they moved to Odanah, where George Anthony was born. Shortly they moved to Washburn and by 1910 to Roy’s Point.
®5404 The 20 April 1910 census lists Francois, 28, Margaret, 23, and George Hebert, 2 and Antonie Grant, Margaret’s 75 year old father lived at the rear of 217 Prentice Avenue in Ashland, Wisconsin. They had been married 3 years and had had one child. Fred and Margaret had both immigrated in 1906 and Fred worked as a laborer in a saw mill.
®9574 Fred and Maggie Hebert lived in Roy’s Point, Wisconsin from 1910 to 1924 and seven of their eight children were born there. Maggie moved the family into Bayfield shortly after Fred died of tuberculosis in 1924, at the age of 45.
®5374On 1 January 1920 Frederick Hebert, a 41 (1920 census says 35)
®5374year old laborer in the lumber mills lived in a home he owned with no mortgage on the Bayfield-Red Cliff Road in Bayfield County, Wisconsin. He had immigrated to the United States in 1904 from New Brunswick, Canada and was not a naturalized citizen. He lived with his wife Margaret, 33, and children George, 11, Edmund, 10, Wilfred, 8, Nellie, 6, Clarence 3 years and 11 months, Hazel, 1 year and 9 months and Margaret, 3 months old.
®3982 He was admitted to Pureair Sanatorium in 1924 and died that year of tuberculosis.
®5404 On 1 April 1930 Fred was deceased and Margaret, a widow, was head of the family and lived on Fourth Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin with Wilfred, Clarence, Hazel and Leonard.
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Spouses
Death16 May 1963, Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA ®5374
Burialaft 16 May 1963, Bayfield, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA ®5404
ReligionRoman Catholic
Cause of deathCerebral vascular accident ®5404
Misc. Notes
Margaret had immigrated from French Canada in 1905
®5374 (1920 census said 1904) (1930 census said 1907) and was not a naturalized citizen on 1 January 1920.
®3982 Fred and Maggie Hebert lived in Roy’s Point, Wisconsin from 1910 to 1924 and seven of their eight children were born there. Maggie moved the family into Bayfield shortly after Fred died of tuberculosis in 1924, at the age of 45.
®5374 Perhaps James Arseneau worked in the same logging camp as Fred Hebert and felt sorry for Fred’s widow and seven children when Fred died in 1924. That may be why he allowed Maggie and the children to live in the bottom floor of the Arseneau house on Sweeney Avenue in Bayfield after Fred died. On 1 April 1930 Margaret was a 43 year old widow who was head of the household on Fourth Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin. She had married at age 20. Wilfred, 18, Clarence, 14, Hazel, 12 and Leonard, 5, lived with her. She had become a naturalized citizen in the interval since 1920.
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Family ID10693
Marriage22 Apr 1907, Odanah, Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA ®9582, ®9583