Helen Archambault^[1]

1879 - 1949  (69 years)

• Name	Helen Archambault
  Born	09 Aug 1879	Au Gres, Arenac, Michigan, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	11 Mar 1949	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States
  Person ID	I8779182139	Master Tree
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2007

  
  

  Father	Cesaire Archambault,   b. 1837, Châteauguay, Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada
  Mother	Josephine Chene,   b. 1844, Belle River, Essex, Ontario, Canada
  Married	05 Nov 1861	Belle River, Essex, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F8026638564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Arthur Nicholas DeWaele,   b. 06 Dec 1876, St. Helen, Roscommon, Michigan, United States ,   d. 22 Oct 1949, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States  (Age 72 years)
  Married	15 Jun 1905	Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States
  Children	+ 1. Alice M DeWaele,   b. 11 Apr 1911, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States ,   d. 01 Sep 1939, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States  (Age 28 years) + 2. Paul L DeWaele,   b. 20 Jan 1909, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States ,   d. 04 Jan 1963  (Age 53 years) + 3. Joseph Leo DeWaele, Sr.,   b. Aug 1907, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States ,   d. May 1967  (Age ~ 59 years)   4. Arthur N DeWaele,   b. 03 May 1906, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States ,   d. 05 May 1906, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States  (Age 0 years) + 5. Lorraine Philomen DeWaele,   b. 29 May 1913, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States ,   d. 24 Sep 1990, Orlando, Orange, Florida, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2007
  Family ID	F8026638568	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 09 Aug 1879 - Au Gres, Arenac, Michigan, United States Married - 15 Jun 1905 - Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States Died - 11 Mar 1949 - Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S8072066261] The Family of Robert Borgon, http://www.borgonfamily.com. Buried in new St. Patrick cemetary, Bay City. Archambault is French in origin. Became a registered nurse in 1913 because they wouldn't train women as doctors. Sandra Thorne Borgon (1942) writes: Helen (1879-1949) talked very little about her family. Helen was set to marry a man who worked in the lumbermill around 1900. He fell into a tree grinder and was killed. It took her many years to get over it and she was 26 when she married my grandfather which was really old back then to get married - most women did by the time they were 18 or so. Grandmother had wanted to be a doctor but wasn't allowed in any medical colleges because she was a woman, So she became a nurse. Although nursing started some years earlier, she really was one of the first who professionally did this (nursing actually began in the 1870's in American but nurses didn't come together as a profession until the late 1890's so it was really very new when she did it). She ususally worked as a private nurse for wealthy families, living with them to take care of an ill relative. Because of her love of medicine, my mother's brother Paul became a doctor. Helen had a weak heart, and her first child Arthur inherited this and died a few days after birth. Son Paul died at 54 of a sudden heart attack. She died from heart failure at 69. Helen was very quiet, sweet, and gentle. Spoke fluent French as a child. John Arthur Thorne (1938) writes: Many relatives of Helen Archambault were the very earliest settlers in the Detroit region. Most lived on the southern shore of the Detroit environs which was called Assumption Sandwich, as well as Coast of the Potowatomies. It is now known as Essex County, Ontario, Canada. On May 24, 1938, Arthur (61), his wife Helen (59), sister Emily (66), and daughter Alice (27) visited the family in Europe. They travelled 750 miles from Bay City, MI to Montreal, Canada in their own car. On May 27 at 10am they took a boat to Glasgow, Scotland with their car on the boat. Here they visited Emily's husband's roots (who passed away in December 1933). They stayed one day in Scotland, drove the car to London, then to Dover then over the North Sea to Ostende (Belgium). They visited several countries and saw Arthur's brother Edgar for the first time in 49 years, as well as his wife Marie and their children (including Romanie).