The Drouillard Family
 Genealogy Website

Joseph Joel DROUILLARD[1]

Male 1884 - 1937  (53 years)


Personal Information    |    Media    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Joseph Joel DROUILLARD 
    Born 29 May 1884 
    Christened 30 May 1884  Assumption, Sandwich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • GODPARENTS: William Drouillard and Anne Drouillard
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Carpenter, Wabash RR 
    Died 10 Oct 1937  Receiving Hospital, Detroit, MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Cause of death: Heart attack at his home on Pine St.
    Buried 12 Oct 1937  St Vincent, Detroit MI to Holy Sepulchre, Southfield, MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • REF: Ontario Birth Registration #007264

      Note: Quit his position with the London Life Insurance Company as Superintendant of the Chatham Branch in Jan-Feb 1909. He immigrated to the United States in December 1912. First lived in Detroit, then went to Anaconda, Montana in 1913-1915. He returned to Detroit and lived at 2510 Vermont, then 2221 Pine Street where the family resided until the 1960's when the Expressway took the property. Venita and Cosmos then purchased a house at 1390 Spruce in Detroit.
    Person ID I2007  Drouillard
    Last Modified 16 Mar 2007 

    Father Thomas (Gilbert) DROUILLARD,   b. 24 Nov 1840,   d. 05 Jun 1913  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Emelie (Amelia) Pare,   b. 15 Mar 1842, Amherstburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Mar 1927, Windsor, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Married 17 Sep 1861  St John the Baptist, Amherstburg Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Witness to the marriage was Alexandre Beneteau
    Notes 
    • REF: Emelie Pare's death notice - Detroit Free Press, March 26, 1927 noted that she had 20 great-
      grandchildren, 40 grandchildren, 4 children
    Family ID F1182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Melinda (or Adeline) Bourassa,   b. 12 May 1880,   d. 13 Feb 1941  (Age 60 years) 
    Married 02 Jun 1911  Assumption, Sandwich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Cosmas (Cosmos) Theodore DROUILLARD,   b. 09 Apr 1913, Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, MT Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Venita Cecelia DROUILLARD,   b. 25 Nov 1915, Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, MT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1985, Detroit, MI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2004 
    Family ID F1551  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Picture
    Picture
    Joseph Drouillard's Obituary
    Joseph Drouillard's Obituary

  • Sources 
    1. [S54] Descendants of Simon Drouillard, Donald F. Drouillard, Norman W. Drouillard and Mark J. Drouillard, 7-204.