Obit of Magdalena (ROBINSON) ROCQUE (b.1810 d.1904) Wabasha, MN

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WABASHA HERALD

Wabasha, Minnesota, Thursday, April 21, 1904

Mrs. Joseph Rocque, relict of the late Joseph Rocque, died at the home 
of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Ebersold, of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, 
on Wednesday. The remains were brought here from Alma on Saturday. The 
funeral occured from St. Felix church, Father Wurst officiating. 
The interment was in St. Felix Cemetery.

Deceased's maiden name was Robinson. She was born in what is now 
St. Paul, Minn., in 1810, her father being a Frenchman and her 
mother a Sioux of Little Crow's band of Indians.

She came to Wabasha previous to 1838 and lived here, up to the death 
of her husband a few years ago. She was a good Christian woman and in 
the early days she and her husband took a very active part in the up 
building of the St. Felix Catholic parish. In the early days when most 
of the people in the parish were poor and the little church here 
struggling for an existence, the Rocques often came to its support 
in a financial way. It was Joseph Rocque and the subject of this 
sketch that gave, free of charge, to the St. Felix church the old 
portion of the present St. Felix Cemetery upon the one condition 
that himself and wife be furnished a lot free of charge in which 
they might repose when death released them.  Ninety-four is a good, 
round old age to live. It has been a history making epoch and a pity 
it is that the valuable experiences, through which this aged lady has 
passed and the events of which she had a personal knowledge, could 
not have been written.

[Note:  Her headstone can be found next to that of her daughter's, 
Josephine Rocque Ebersold, in the St. Felix Cemetery]