Mackinac County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Kywondway, Josette Bernadetta Goudreau 
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Cemetery:           Gros Cap Cemetery
Name:               Josette Bernadetta Goudreau Kywondway

Date Of Photograph: October 21, 2007
Photo can be seen at:
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IN MEMORIAM
WOODMEN CIRCLE
JOSETTE
WIFE OF JOSEPH KYWONDWAY
MAR 31, 1859 - DEC 4, 1912
Location:  Block 7, Lot 7

Additional Comments:
Josette Bernadetta Goudreau was born 31 Mar 1859, one of twelve children, to 
Amable & Mary Marie Vallier Goudreau in Saint Ignace. Information about Amable:
Epoufette, Mackinac County, Michigan - Michigan Registered Historic Site, 
Marker is across from the Epoufette Cemetery on the shores of Lake Michigan.  
It reads "Epoufette has been a fishing village since 1859, when Amable 
Goudreau, born in Quebec around 1824, established a commercial fishery.  More 
than a century after his death in 1882, some of his descendents continued 
fishing operations.  Father Edward Jacker, then serving the Saint Ignace and 
Mackinac Island missions, visited Epoufette in August 1875.  He reported a 
thriving fishery, with nets as far as forty miles distant, which kept two 
coopers busy from dawn to dusk making barrels for shipment of salted fish to 
distant markets".

Source: Mrs. Emerson (Margaret) Smith, 1961
Amable Goudreau, pioneer of that family who came from Canada with the idea of 
extracting the oil from the whitefish, to be used for oil lamps.  He worked 
for the Hudson Bay Fur Company and made a fortune in real estate in the St. 
Ignace area.  Some of the streets of St. Ignace are named for his chilcren 
(Abe Street, Mary Street, Joseph Street and of course Goudreau Street)

She married Joseph Kywondway 29 Apr 1876 and they had eleven children.  She 
died in St. Igance 4 Dec 1912.

     

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