Death at Feast
From the Lowell Sun, 30 June 1903, P 7:
"Mother Dies at Her Daughter’s Wedding
Mrs. Charles Pilotte of Kenwood
Succumbed Suddenly to Heart Disease
When the laughter and merriment held undisputed sway throughout the morning hours yesterday at the comfortable house of Mr. Charles Pilotte, the original settler at Kenwood, sorrow and tears were fair’s sad substitute as the day closed. In the morning Mr. Pilotte gave away in marriage the last of his daughters to leave the paternal roof, while in the evening he stood beside the bier of his devoted wife, Mrs. Adele Pilotte, aged 68 years, who was stricken down with paralysis of the heart just as the nuptial festivities were at their height.
Her daughter, Miss Lydia Pilotte, was united in marriage with Mr. Arthur Latour, a popular young resident of this city at 7:30 o’clock in the morning, the nuptial mass being celebrated at St. Joseph’s Church on Lee street. After the ceremony the bridal party repaired to the house of the bride’s parents in Kenwood where a wedding breakfast was served. None was in better health and spirits during the morning than Mrs. Pilotte. It was planned to have a wedding reception at Belle Gueve in the evening to which many friends had been invited, and Mrs. Pilotte jokingly remarked that she would dance at the wedding of the last of her daughters.
But shortly after dinner, about 2 o’clock, she was suddenly stricken down and became unconscious. Medical aid was summoned and it was found that she was suffering from paralysis of the heart and could not recover. A clergyman administered the last rites of the Catholic Church and she passed away at 7 o’clock in the evening.
Mrs. Pilotte is survived by her husband and nine children, five sons and four daughters. One of the sons is Mr. Alfred Pilotte of the Sun mechanical department.”
Charles and Adele Pilotte are the parents of my great-grandfather Maurice Pilotte. A few weeks ago Mom and I were searching church records from Richmond Quebec where Maurice and Claudia Pilotte were married. One of the things that was puzzling to me was the way that all mention of Pilotte family birth, death and marriages vanished from that church after about 1889. The answer was that almost every member of the family moved to Lowell, MA.
This week I found the somewhat sensationalized reporting on the wedding day death of Adele Boivin Pilotte. The newspaper writer made quite a story of the grim irony of the event which juxtaposed the joy of a child's wedding with the grief of a parent's death. The picture became even darker when I located an obituary for the bride of the wedding feast, Lydia Pilotte Latour. She died a short nine years later on February 26, 1912 at the young age of 32, leaving four small children.
Charles Pilotte passed away in December, 1917 at the age of 75. The Sun obituary mentions three daughters Mrs. A Gosselin of Canada, Mrs A. (Amedee) Caron and Mrs. Aime Demers of Lowell; as well as three sons, Maurice, Joseph and Alfred of Lowell. The obituary also said that Charles Pilotte had been a bricklayer.
My research thus far uncovered a marriage record for Charles and Adele Boivin Pilotte on 7 Jan 1862 at Bagotville, QC. As I mentioned in an earlier posting, Bagotville is a good deal north of the banks of the St. Lawrence where Charles was born in 1842. It was an even greater distance (over 200 miles) to Richmond, QC, where most of the Pilotte family lived in the 1860's where Maurice and Claudia were married. Now I find that my great-great grandparents relocated their lives once more to Lowell.
We are still waiting on the Bagotville Church records to find out more about this family. I am sure that they had at least nine children, perhaps more. If the newspaper obituary is right, Adele was born in 1835 and was 7 years older than Charles. She had her youngest daughter, Lydia, in 1879 when she was 44 or 45. Maurice, my great-grandfather, was the oldest child, born in 1862.
"Mother Dies at Her Daughter’s Wedding
Mrs. Charles Pilotte of Kenwood
Succumbed Suddenly to Heart Disease
When the laughter and merriment held undisputed sway throughout the morning hours yesterday at the comfortable house of Mr. Charles Pilotte, the original settler at Kenwood, sorrow and tears were fair’s sad substitute as the day closed. In the morning Mr. Pilotte gave away in marriage the last of his daughters to leave the paternal roof, while in the evening he stood beside the bier of his devoted wife, Mrs. Adele Pilotte, aged 68 years, who was stricken down with paralysis of the heart just as the nuptial festivities were at their height.
Her daughter, Miss Lydia Pilotte, was united in marriage with Mr. Arthur Latour, a popular young resident of this city at 7:30 o’clock in the morning, the nuptial mass being celebrated at St. Joseph’s Church on Lee street. After the ceremony the bridal party repaired to the house of the bride’s parents in Kenwood where a wedding breakfast was served. None was in better health and spirits during the morning than Mrs. Pilotte. It was planned to have a wedding reception at Belle Gueve in the evening to which many friends had been invited, and Mrs. Pilotte jokingly remarked that she would dance at the wedding of the last of her daughters.
But shortly after dinner, about 2 o’clock, she was suddenly stricken down and became unconscious. Medical aid was summoned and it was found that she was suffering from paralysis of the heart and could not recover. A clergyman administered the last rites of the Catholic Church and she passed away at 7 o’clock in the evening.
Mrs. Pilotte is survived by her husband and nine children, five sons and four daughters. One of the sons is Mr. Alfred Pilotte of the Sun mechanical department.”
Charles and Adele Pilotte are the parents of my great-grandfather Maurice Pilotte. A few weeks ago Mom and I were searching church records from Richmond Quebec where Maurice and Claudia Pilotte were married. One of the things that was puzzling to me was the way that all mention of Pilotte family birth, death and marriages vanished from that church after about 1889. The answer was that almost every member of the family moved to Lowell, MA.
This week I found the somewhat sensationalized reporting on the wedding day death of Adele Boivin Pilotte. The newspaper writer made quite a story of the grim irony of the event which juxtaposed the joy of a child's wedding with the grief of a parent's death. The picture became even darker when I located an obituary for the bride of the wedding feast, Lydia Pilotte Latour. She died a short nine years later on February 26, 1912 at the young age of 32, leaving four small children.
Charles Pilotte passed away in December, 1917 at the age of 75. The Sun obituary mentions three daughters Mrs. A Gosselin of Canada, Mrs A. (Amedee) Caron and Mrs. Aime Demers of Lowell; as well as three sons, Maurice, Joseph and Alfred of Lowell. The obituary also said that Charles Pilotte had been a bricklayer.
My research thus far uncovered a marriage record for Charles and Adele Boivin Pilotte on 7 Jan 1862 at Bagotville, QC. As I mentioned in an earlier posting, Bagotville is a good deal north of the banks of the St. Lawrence where Charles was born in 1842. It was an even greater distance (over 200 miles) to Richmond, QC, where most of the Pilotte family lived in the 1860's where Maurice and Claudia were married. Now I find that my great-great grandparents relocated their lives once more to Lowell.
We are still waiting on the Bagotville Church records to find out more about this family. I am sure that they had at least nine children, perhaps more. If the newspaper obituary is right, Adele was born in 1835 and was 7 years older than Charles. She had her youngest daughter, Lydia, in 1879 when she was 44 or 45. Maurice, my great-grandfather, was the oldest child, born in 1862.
posted by Cliff Vogel | 3:22 PM
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I think I am related to you. My paternal great grandmother was Mrs. Amedee Caron of Lowell, MA. My grandfather was Amedee Caron of St. Johnsbury, VT, formerly of Lowell, MA. The few remaining members of my family still live in St. Johnsbury, including my father and his brother. I live in Sunapee, New Hampshire, presently. I can be contacted at dianecaron@live.com.
I can be reached at dianecaron@live.com.
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