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Aimée or Aimé Daigle was born in 1845 to Antoine Daigle and Seconde Soucy. His great-grandfather, Jean Baptiste Daigle, in his paternal line, had come to St. John Valley as a young man, possibly with the first contingent of Acadians who came in the mid-1780s. Seconde Soucy had come from Lower Canada (present-day Quebec). The family was thus an emblematic case of Acadians and French Canadians coming together and intermarrying in the greater Madawaska territory.
Daigle married Edith Cyr, also of Acadian descent, in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick, in 1867. The family lived from farming in St. John Plantation. At the census of 1880, there were nine children in their household. By 1910, Aimé and Edith were living with five adult sons, three of whom worked in lumber camps, a common way of supplementing agricultural income.
Edith died of pneumonia in 1912. Around 1916, Aimé went to live in Eagle Lake. He died there of heart failure in January 1921. The reference to "Warthem" General Hospital is unclear (an institution by that name has yet to be identified); he was a patient at the Northern Maine General Hospital in Eagle Lake at the 1920 census. His state death record indicates that he died there. Father Louis Nonorgues led the funeral.
Aimé was a first cousin of Alcime Daigle, whose funeral card also appears in this collection.
The card originally (and erroneously) gave the year of death as 1920; it was corrected by hand to 1921.
The back features an image of Our Lady of Sorrows; an inscription reads, "Notre-Dame de Compassion, Marie, Mère de tous les chrétiens, priez pour nous" (Our Lady of Sorrows, Mary, Mother of all Christians, pray for us).
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About This Item
- Title: Aimée Daigle funeral card, 1921
- Creator: J. P. Chassey
- Creation Date: 1921
- Subject Date: 1921
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Locations:
- St. John Plantation, Aroostook County, ME
- Eagle Lake, Aroostook County, ME
- Fort Kent, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 10.8 cm x 6.5 cm
- Local Code: MCC-00547
- Collection: Daigle Family Collection
- Object Type: Text and Image
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