Wayne County MI Archives History .....Dugrey Family Background 
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DUGREY BACKGROUND


	Among the early settlers of Detroit was the French-Canadian family of 
Hubert Dugrey who was born in the Eastern part of canada in the year 1816, and 
his wife Saloma, or Sally, Thibodeau, who was born in St. Johns New Brunswick, 
in 1832, and they were married in February, 1848.  They established their home 
in one of the two houses Mr. Dugrey had built, he being a carpenter by trade.  
It was in this house at the corner of Abbott and Second Street that their 
first child, Mary E. was born january 6, 1849.  The next year, 1850, Mr. and 
Mrs. Dugrey purchased a farm in Greenfield Township, Wayne Co., on woodward 
Avenue, then called the Plank road, and the Six Mile Road.  The farm was 
located on both sides of Woodward and south of the Six Mile Road.  the First 
Methodist church is on the South East corner of what was formerly the Dugrey 
farm.

	Six other children came to bless this home:  Philomena, Joseph, Joel, 
Rose, Delima and Josephine.  The children attended school in a schoolhouse 
located at Woodward and the Seven Mile Road.  Indians were frequent visitors 
to this home.  A source of great pleasure to the children was when the circus 
moved by caravan from Detroit to Pontiac.

	The death of the wife and mother who was called to her home on October 
23, 1863, was a sorrowful flow to the husband, and the five girls and the two 
boys, and double sad for the children when two years later, on October 27, 
1865, the father was called to his reward, leaving the seven children, the 
oldest being 16 years old, and the youngest, Josephine, was four.  Josephine 
lived to be eleven years old and died of diphtheria, August 9, 1872.  Father, 
Mother, and daughter were laid to rest in Mt. Elliot cemetery.

	After the death of the father, the children were separated, being 
employed in different homes.  Philomena left Detroit in 1872 and went to Fort 
Wayne, Indiana.  In March of 1881, she joined the Order of the Franciscian 
Sisters at Lafayette, Indiana and became Sister M. Wilabalda.  Her life was 
spend in service for her Lord.  On April 6, 1931, she celebrated her golden 
jubilee and passed away on Jan. 14, 1933.

	Rose who had been living in Windsor was married to P.T. Beniteau in 
1881 and had their home in Duluth, Minnesota.  They had one son, Thomas.  Rose 
died January 23, 1883 at the age of 26 years.

	Joseph, a tailor had married Jennie Ferguson, and had four children, 
passed away March 2, 1919, at the age of 66.

	Delima who was married to Samuel LeBlanc of Ecorse and was the mother 
of six children passed to the reward on October 11, 1923.

	Joel, a shoemaker whose wife was Ida Eno had three children and Mary 
whose husband was Daniel Bell was the mother of four children.

	Joel who is 85 years old, and Mary, who is 91, were able to attend a 
first reunion of the family held in 1939 at the Huron Park.	

	Hubert and Saloma Dugrey left a rich heritage to their children, not 
so much in material riches, but in good character.  The children have all been 
good citizens and a credit to their family and to the land that gave them 
birth.


(signed)  Mary E. Bell


Additional Comments:
This brief history was writen by one of the children, Mary E. Dugrey Bell

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