Cheboygan County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....LaVigne, Joseph And Zoe 
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Patricia L Smith lopas@kvi.net September 28, 2009, 6:12 pm

Cemetery:           Calvary Cemetery
Name:               Joseph And Zoe LaVigne

Date Of Photograph: August 2006
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Joseph was actually b:14 Jan 1846 as his baptism record bears this out as he 
was baptized the same day as birth. He was born in Quebec, Canada, died 19 Jan 
1925, at the home of his eldest child, Nora Neelis, in Cheboygan, MI. He 
married Ezoa Charette 29 Jun 1874 at St. Felicite Church in Clarence Creek, 
Ont. Canada. They moved to Cheboygan Co., sometime before the birth of their 
first child, Nora, in Apr 1875. 

Ezoa (Zoe`) Charette b:3 Dec 1855 Prescott, Ontario, Canada. d:27 Feb 1926 
Cheboygan, MI. Family history states that she died while making bread at the 
home of her son, Julius.

Additional Comments:
Tessier was the surname of all of Joseph's ancestors and siblings. The name was 
changed, in Michigan, in the 1920's and no one knows the exact reason. LaVigne 
means of the vine and the Tessier's had vineyards in France. Their original 
ancestor was Urbain LaVigne Tessier, who arrived from France in the 1600's and 
helped settle Villa Marie, which is now Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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