Angelique (Saucier) Menard (1783 - 1839)

Born 4 Mar 1783 in Portage des Sioux, Illinois

Wife of Pierre Menard — married 22 Sep 1806 in Kaskaskia, St Clair County, Illinois

Died 13 Feb 1839 at age 55 in Kaskaskia, Illinois

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Biography

Agelique Saucier is the daughter of François Saucier and Angelique La Penseé, and granddaughter of François Saucier, once a French officer at Fort Chartres, who resigned and settled in the Illinois Country.

On September 22, 1806, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Kaskaskia, St. Clair County, "in the Country of the Illinois," Angelique married Pierre Menard, son of Jean Baptiste Menard and Marie Françoise Cirée.

Children of Angelique and Pierre are:

• François P. Menard, born in 1809 at Kaskaskia, died January, 1831

• Edmond Menard, born February 8, 1813, at Kaskaskia, eduated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmetsburg, Maryland, and died at Kaskaskia in July, 1884

• Matthew Saucier Menard, born April 22, 1817, at Kaskaskia, died September 29, 1832, at St. Louis, married Constance Detchemendy at St Genevieve, Missouri

• Louis Cyprien Menard, born March 2, 1819, educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmetsburg, Maryland, admitted to the bar at St. Louis, Missouri in 1843. He was married October 15, 1845, to Augustine Ste. Gêmme, and died June 2, 1870, leaving his widow and six children.

• Amédeé Menard, born in 1820, died in 1844 at Peoria, Illiniois

• Sophie A. Menard, born November 13, 1822, married in July, 1843 to John D. Radford of St. Louis, died June 22, 1848

Sources

• Chicago Historical Society Collection, Volume IV, by Edward G. Mason, President of the Society, Published in Chicago by Fergus Printing Company, 1890, page 148