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Adele Perrett [Perry] There are indications that the LNAB may have been Perret given that was in use by her father.
" A DAY IN THE LIFE of Adele Guerin by Sarah P. Rubinstein
That year of 1850 Adele Guerin, at the age of 24, was comfortably situated. Her husband, Vital Guerin, had built a new house for them and their five children—David, age eight, Emily, age seven, Lucy, age six, Alfred, age five, and William, age three. At the corner of Wabasha and Seventh Streets in St. Paul, their new dwelling was a one-and-a-half-story frame structure quite unlike the place that she and Vital had occupied as newlyweds on January 26, 1841. That had been a 16-by-20-foot cabin built of oak and elm logs. It had a bark roof and a puncheon floor but a real door and a window that Michel LeClaire, their neighbor, had made for them. There were only eight other cabins in St. Paul at that time.
Adele had known Vital for most of her life. He had joined the American Fur Company in 1832 at the age of 19, leaving his home in Quebec for the life of a voyageur in the Upper Mississippi River region. The territory must have been to his liking, for he fulfilled his three-year contract with the company and then found work with other traders in the area. In 1839 he located on a claim in St. Paul.
Adele and her family had been among the first residents of St. Paul. She was only 10 months old when she arrived in 1827 at Fort Snelling with her parents, brother, and three (3) sisters as refugees from the Selkirk Settlement in the Red River Valley north of Pembina.
Her father, Abraham Perry, had immigrated with his wife, Mary Ann, son, and two daughters from Switzerland to the Canadian wilderness in 1820. Having relocated again, they lived on a farm near the fort until 1838 when the commandant forced them off the military reserve, distressing the ladies at the fort because Adele’s mother was a respected midwife. The Perrys and their neighbors had then moved downriver to a convenient landing where Pierre Parrant had already established a grog shop. All the inhabitants of this little settlement spoke French. " [2]
The Irish standard. (Minneapolis, Minn. ; St. Paul, Minn.), 1914-12-26 page
" DEATH OF MRS. ADELE GUERIN.
Mrs. Guerin, daughter of Abraham Perry, who was a member of a Swiss colony that settled in the Red River valley shortly after 1820, was born on December 15, 1827.
In less than a year after her birth her parents moved to Port Snelling, where they lived and prospered for ten years, until they were compelled to move to the east side of the river, because of the extension of the military precincts.
Here her life was full of adventure, for the Indians, despite a new treaty, made intermittent raids on the white settlers.
In 1841 she was married to Vetal Guerin. He eventually became possessed of large tracts of land, and had he not been a very generous man, he would have been able to bequeath property worth millions of dollars to his widow.
However, in consideration of the debt due his family by the state, for he had bestowed on Ramsey county the site of the court house, she was given a life pension.
Mrs. Guerin died while the flowers sent her by her friends on her eighty seventh birthday were still fresh and fragrant, and as the silvery chimes of the clock marked the hour of her summons to a better world, the reward'of a long, faithful and holy life.
Mrs. Guerin is survived by three sons, Adolph P., George V., Louis H., and two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Rous Beau of St. Paul and Mrs. W. H. Whitaker of White Bear. " [3]
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