Adele (Perry) Guérin (1827 - 1914)

Born 15 Dec 1827 in Selkirk Settlement in the Red River Valley North of Pembina [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Louis Vital Guérin — married 26 Jan 1841 in Mendota, Dakota, Minnesota Territory, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1914 at age 87 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States

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Biography

Adele Perrett [Perry] There are indications that the LNAB may have been Perret given that was in use by her father.

• Birth: Adele was born in 1827. (Red River Colony, North Dakota, United States/Selkirk Settlement in the Red River Valley North of Pembina). Note: Some sources give Adele's birth location as Switzerland, but the J. Fletcher Williams source says only Abraham's first two children were born there. She was 10 months old in 1827 and her father migrated in 1820 suggesting she was born in Selkirk; Settlement in the Red River Valley, north of Pembina
• Death: died in 1914.
• Burial: Calvary Cemetery Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA, PLOT: Section 12, Block 18, Lot 1, Grave 2 MEMORIAL ID: 155245581.^[1]

Historical Biography Excerpt

" A DAY IN THE LIFE of Adele Guerin by Sarah P. Rubinstein

That year of 1850 Adele Guerin, at the age of 24, was comfortably situated. Her husband, Vital Guerin, had built a new house for them and their five children—David, age eight, Emily, age seven, Lucy, age six, Alfred, age five, and William, age three. At the corner of Wabasha and Seventh Streets in St. Paul, their new dwelling was a one-and-a-half-story frame structure quite unlike the place that she and Vital had occupied as newlyweds on January 26, 1841. That had been a 16-by-20-foot cabin built of oak and elm logs. It had a bark roof and a puncheon floor but a real door and a window that Michel LeClaire, their neighbor, had made for them. There were only eight other cabins in St. Paul at that time.

Adele had known Vital for most of her life. He had joined the American Fur Company in 1832 at the age of 19, leaving his home in Quebec for the life of a voyageur in the Upper Mississippi River region. The territory must have been to his liking, for he fulfilled his three-year contract with the company and then found work with other traders in the area. In 1839 he located on a claim in St. Paul.

Adele and her family had been among the first residents of St. Paul. She was only 10 months old when she arrived in 1827 at Fort Snelling with her parents, brother, and three (3) sisters as refugees from the Selkirk Settlement in the Red River Valley north of Pembina.

Her father, Abraham Perry, had immigrated with his wife, Mary Ann, son, and two daughters from Switzerland to the Canadian wilderness in 1820. Having relocated again, they lived on a farm near the fort until 1838 when the commandant forced them off the military reserve, distressing the ladies at the fort because Adele’s mother was a respected midwife. The Perrys and their neighbors had then moved downriver to a convenient landing where Pierre Parrant had already established a grog shop. All the inhabitants of this little settlement spoke French. " ^[2]

Obituary

The Irish standard. (Minneapolis, Minn. ; St. Paul, Minn.), 1914-12-26 page

" DEATH OF MRS. ADELE GUERIN.

Mrs. Guerin, daughter of Abraham Perry, who was a member of a Swiss colony that settled in the Red River valley shortly after 1820, was born on December 15, 1827.

In less than a year after her birth her parents moved to Port Snelling, where they lived and prospered for ten years, until they were compelled to move to the east side of the river, because of the extension of the military precincts.

Here her life was full of adventure, for the Indians, despite a new treaty, made intermittent raids on the white settlers.

In 1841 she was married to Vetal Guerin. He eventually became possessed of large tracts of land, and had he not been a very generous man, he would have been able to bequeath property worth millions of dollars to his widow.

However, in consideration of the debt due his family by the state, for he had bestowed on Ramsey county the site of the court house, she was given a life pension.

Mrs. Guerin died while the flowers sent her by her friends on her eighty seventh birthday were still fresh and fragrant, and as the silvery chimes of the clock marked the hour of her summons to a better world, the reward'of a long, faithful and holy life.

Mrs. Guerin is survived by three sons, Adolph P., George V., Louis H., and two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Rous Beau of St. Paul and Mrs. W. H. Whitaker of White Bear. " ^[3]

Sources

• Williams, J. Fletcher (John Fletcher), 1834-1895. A History of the City of Saint Paul, And of the County of Ramsey, Minnesota. Saint Paul: Published by the Minnesota Historical Society, 1876. p 101.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ9K-YGH : 12 August 2017), Adella Guerin, St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district ED 14, sheet 272C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,630.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M93V-HXR : accessed 3 April 2020), Adele Guerin, Election District 15 St. Paul city Ward 8, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 137, sheet 6B, family 152, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,785.
• "Minnesota, Birth and Death Records, 1866-1916," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPDZ-DN5 : 10 March 2018), Adele Guerin, 20 Dec 1914; citing St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, cn2778, Public Health Center, St. Paul; FHL microfilm 1,309,193.
• "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDSH-VRD : 16 January 2020), Adele Guerin, 1914.
• "Minnesota State Census, 1865 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPSW-9KW : 13 November 2014), Adelle Guerin in household of Vetal Guerin, St Paul, 02, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing volume 8, line 7, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 565,715.
• "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V474-WNL : 4 December 2014), Adele Guerin, 20 Dec 1914; from "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2001); citing Ramsey, Minnesota, record 157801, certificate number 023898, Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis.
• "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD73-T4T : 4 December 2014), Adelle Perry in entry for Adolph P. Guerin, 23 Jul 1938; citing Ft. Snelling, Hennepin, Minnesota, reference 255; FHL microfilm 2,243,071.

1. ↑ [( https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155245581/adeliade-perrett_perry-guerin)]
2. ↑ [(http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/56/v56i04p198-199.pdf)]
3. ↑ [(https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/mnhi_castor_ver01/data/sn90059959/00271760073/1914122601/0170.pdf)]

See Also

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