Hi Gary, I  enjoy the blog each day and am sorry I haven’t taken time to respond,

 

At the Family Bakery this morning I was introduced to Larry (Albert) Baumann.  He was an Immigration officer at Portal and both Wayne Smith and Terry have known him for many years.  He is retired and lives at Lake Metigoshe now.   Anyway, he was asking if I knew anything about the Louis LaFrance family and at first it didn’t ring a bell, but then I thought maybe my mother would know something and, as usual, she did.  Larry Baumann said a relative had taught a country school on the corner of Old Highway 5 and the Willow Lake Road. (In Section 33 of Gilbert Township).  My mom, who is 87, remembers the older kids talking about a school there, however, she doesn’t remember seeing it there.  Mom thought Henry Nelson (dad to Oliver and Don Nelson) may have attended and also some of the Boguslawski children.  Adam and Charlette Lang owned this property for my growing up years.  It is now owned by Guy Garrison of St. John.

 

My mom also thinks that the Gottbreht’s are related to the LaFrance’s.  Was George’s grandmother a LaFrance?  Mom also thinks that perhaps the Tennacours are also related  (Alice Tennacour Evans Berube).  Larry Baumann said that Louis LaFrance is buried at Dunseith Cemetery.

 

Another connection that Larry Baumann mentioned was  a man named Henry Warner was married to Louis LaFrance’s daughter named Dena.  Henry Warner owned a hardware store in Dunseith before he moved to Westhope and opened a hardware there.  He was nicknamed ” Hacole”.  Henry Warner came from one of the New England states and had a heavy accent. Henry and Dena are buried in Westhope. Dena died in 1936, Henry in the teens.

 

Larry Baumann is somehow related to the Morgans and he said that Gary Morgan had given alot of information.  He thought it was Gary’s grandmother who talk that country school.

 

So maybe some of the readers will pop in here with some information.

 

 

Tammy Counts

 

Please add tammycounts@  to the list.  She was a second grade student of my mother and graduated in 1982 (? not sure). She is a nurse and took care of mom at the Good Samaritian Nursing Home here in Bottineau.  She would like to be added to the list.