Helene Mary (LeBlanc) Muise (1903 - 1939)

Born 23 Jan 1903 in Belleville, Yarmouth Co., NS, Canada

Ancestors

Daughter of Rémi LeBlanc and Louise Jane Bennett

Wife of Louis Léon Muise — married 11 Oct 1920 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Co., Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1939 at age 36 in Ste. Anne du Ruisseau, Yarmouth Co., NS, Canada

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Helene (LeBlanc) Muise is a descendant of an Acadian

Biography

Helene was born in 1903. ^[1] Her family lived in Belleville, NS at what is now 522 Belleville Rd.

She married Louis in 1920 in Wakefield, MA, and lived there until about 1931. Louis was from Quinan, NS. She return to NS for the birth of her first child, Bernard. The middle five of seven children were born in the United States, while the baby, Martin was born in NS after moving to Sainte Anne du Ruisseau.

Helene died in 1939 at home after a failed pregnancy and due to heart issues. Her son, Larry, recalls he was playing in the woods with a neighbour when his brother Edward came to find him with the news. Edward was on his way to find the two oldest boys, Jim and Bernard, working in Belleville. Larry returned home and his father sent him to ring the Church bell. Her funeral was the first in Sainte Anne du Ruisseau to use a pick up truck instead of a horse drawn hearse. The truck belonged to someone named Wilfred.

Helene is buried in the older part of the parish cemetery, not far from her father who died less than three years earlier.

She wore dark glasses and had blue one when she died.^[2][3]

Obituary

"Ste-Anne-du-Ruisseau. - Est décédé ici mardi, le 25 avril, après trois semaines de maladie, Mme Louis Muise, âgée de 37 ans. La défunte souffrait de pluro-pneumonie. Outre son époux elle laisse pour la pleurer sept enfants; trois frères, Henri et Walter aux Etats et Arthur à la maison paternelle; six soeurs, Victoire, Vitaline, et Georgine aux Etats, la Reverande Sr. Jeanne Louise de la Pointe-de-l'Eglise, Agnès d'ici et Rose Anne de Belleville. La défunte était la fille de Remi LeBlanc de Belleville."

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Lawrence Muise, FTDNA kit # 172529, and his maternal line cousin UNK (a direct matrilineal descendant of Monique LeFevre), FTDNA kit N143206, have an Genetic Distance = 1 in HVR2 at A214R, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Catherine Lejeune, the 7x great grandmother of Lawrence Muise and 9th great grandmother of UNK. See this diagram from the Mothers of Acadia DNA Project for more information.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match based on this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Lawrence Arthur Muise (1926-2011) and for his two maternal cousins: this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Gordon Johnson Jr and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Pauline Eunice Rita (Eisner) Bouvier (1924-2017).

Sources

1. ↑ Year: 1911; Census Place: 3 - Belleville, Quinan, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Page: 4; Family No: 29. Ancestry.com. 1911 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1911. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2007. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1911/Pages/about-census.aspx. Series RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels T-20326 to T-20460.
2. ↑ Interview with Larry and Treva Muise, by Marcel Muise, Ste. Anne du Ruisseau, Aug 2002 and 2004.
3. ↑ Ste. Agnes Parish Records, Quinan, NS.