Who sold the farm ?

Photo of Front Street RC Chapel
modified from the Chelmsford Diocese
book inside cover.

Lea Leduc Brosseau sold the farm.

Lea and Adolphe married in Chelmsford in 1910 before the current Roman Catholic St Joseph church was built. The old chapel served for many weddings and baptism but by 1910 it was worn down and almost beyond worth being repaired. The local Diocese book states that in 1913 this chapel was replaced by the new Roman styled church and by the laws of the church the cemetery could not be near the church so the nearby graves were exhumed and reburied at the new cemetery about a mile away.


At the time, Adolphe was living with his parents Toussaint and Marcelline on the Vermillion river farmland.


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Lea was the daughter of Joseph Leduc who owned land a few miles away. Joseph Leduc's lot was occupied on the Dowling side by the Honores Pilon and on the Balfour-Chelmsford side by Adolphe Brosseau and later by Henry Brosseau.

The story gets confusing at this point. There are two Adolphe's in the area at this time. One is Adolphe Emery the father of Henry and Arthur while the other Adolphe is the son of Adolphe Emery's brother Toussaint.

I guess that it was Adolphe Emery who owned the land beside Joseph Leduc but I could be wrong. Adolphe, the son of Toussaint married Lea, the daughter of Joseph Leduc.

Regardless, Toussaint passed on in 1903 or 1907 and was one of the persons exhumed and reburied. Adolphe and Lea raised 13 kids on the farm and in about 1958 sold the farm after the house had burnt down ( according to a reliable source ). She bought a four plex in Chelmsford and about 5 years later sold that and moved in with a daughter.

So Lea Leduc Brosseau was the one who sold the farm.

At least that is how it all worked out to the best of my knowledge.