When Marguerite Ledoux was born on January 31, 1846, her father, Michel, was 20, and her mother, Eleonore Bombardier , was 23. She married Michel Heroux on April 15, 1861, in Belle Prairie, Minnesota. They had nine children in 26 years. She died on September 16, 1920, in Dodson, Montana, at the age of 74, and was buried in Belle Prairie, Minnesota.
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162369465/marguerite-ereaux: accessed 30 September 2022), memorial page for Marguerite LeDoux Ereaux (31 Jan 1846–18 Sep 1920), Find A Grave: Memorial #162369465, citing Holy Family Church Cemetery, Belle Prairie, Morrison County, Minnesota, USA; Maintained by Wendelina (contributor 47649301) .
"Minnesota State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQFF-NJJ : 20 February 2021), Margaret Heroux in household of Michel Heroux, Belle Prairie, Morrison, Minnesota; citing p. 5, volume Morrison, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 565,746.
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Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on mitoYDNA.org. Rita (Cavanaugh) Carpenter, mitoYDNA kit # T17699, and half her 10th cousin, M. Castonguay, mitoYDNA kit # T16972, (compare kits), have an HVR1, HVR2, CR match with a minor mismatch in the Coding Region, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Madeleine Brun, the 9x great grandmother of both Rita (Cavanaugh) Carpenter and M. Castonguay. DNA test taker Rita (Cavanaugh) Carpenter is the 2x great granddaughter of Marguerite Ledoux, the daughter of Eleonore Bombardier, the 4x great granddaughter of the common ancestor Madeleine Brun.
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