Cheboygan County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Neelis, James And Nora 
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Cemetery:           Calvary Cemetery
Name:               James And Nora Neelis

Date Of Photograph: August 2006
Photo can be seen at:
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Even though it shows his birth year as 1862, James was actually born 31 Oct 
1860 in Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada. He appears as an infant with his parents 
in the 1861 Canadian Census. His baptismal records show he was baptized 5 Nov 
1860 in St. James Colgan Church, Ontario, Canada. He died 14 Aug 1942, 
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Michigan. He was the 9th of 11 children born to John 
Neelis and Rebecca Smith. They emigrated to Canada from Ireland about 1847. 
James arrived in Cheboygan in 1895, working as a lumberman. He married Nora 
Tessier-LaVigne 21 Aug 1890 in St. Mary's Church, Cheboygan. They had 8 
children, with the youngest, Margaret Elizabeth, being my mother. All were born 
and raised in Cheboygan.

Nora Eleanor Tessier LaVigne b:13 Apr 1875 Indian River, Cheboygan, MI d:16 Nov 
1959, Jackson,Michigan at the home of her daughter Louise. Nora was the eldest 
of 12 children born to Joseph Tessier and Ezoa Charette. They were born in 
Quebec and lived/married in Clarence Creek, Ontario. They arrived in Michigan 
prior to the birth of their first child. From family history, Zoe` was a cook 
in the lumbermill camps and that's where Nora met her husband James.

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