Etienne Loiselle Homestead Record

20 Feb 1883
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

• etienne loiselle, homestead certificate (source: bureau of land management)

Homestead Certificate No. 2674 Application 3367

...[T]he claim of Etienne Loiselle has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the north half of the south-east quarter of section eight in township twenty-eight north of range seven west of the South Principal Meridian in Wisconsin containing eighty acres....
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Source Text from BLM:
[Source: BLM, Accession/Serial #: WI0330__.095 BLM Serial #: WI NO S/N]

"Patentee: ETIENNE LOISELLE
Survey
State: WISCONSIN
Acres: 80
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 2/20/1883
Land Office: Eau Claire
Cancelled: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)
Aliquot Parts:N½SE
Sec./Block: 8/
Township:28-N
Range:7-W
Fract.Section:No
Meridian: 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI
State: Wisconsin
Counties:Chippewa
Survey Nr: -"

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A rootsweb transcription by Pat Dietrich from the 1888 Chippewa County, Wisconsin plat book for the southern half of the county shows it this way:

"LOISELLE, E. 80 Township 28 N. Range 7"

[Source: http://users.rohttp://users.rootsweb.com/~wichippe/directories/chip-l-o.txt]

chapman family and cushing farm in cobban, chippewa county, wisconsin

for a few years now, trainweb.org has maintained a short but wonderful page that sketches the history of cobban, chippewa county, wisconsin, the small community in which marian chapman was born on cushing farm.

all of clarence clinton chapman and emilie rackow's children except their oldest daughter, clary, were born on that farm.

family data: (some of which may repeat earlier entries...)

clarence clinton chapman (12 Jun 1887-12 Oct 1984) m. emilie rackow (2 Aug 1889-25 Sep 1968) on 9 feb 1910 in sheboygan county, wi.

[clarence was born in greenbush, sheboygan co, wi and emilie in eden, fond du lac co, wi]

their children:

clarice bertha "clary" chapman b. 23 sep 1910, greenbush, sheboygan co, wi; m. roy harvey ronald retzlaff

margaret anita "marg" chapman b. 19 may 1913, cobban, wi; m. (1) thoburn melvin josephson, 13 jun 1932; m (2) don a. tiedt, 13 feb 1954; m (3) russell h. eddy, 25 nov 1967

marian emma chapman, b. 12 oct 1914, cobban, chippewa co, wi; d 28 oct 1988, wickenburg, maricopa co, az; m (1) royal charles loiselle (1910-1977); m. (2) emmert ellsworth "tex" berry (1919-1994).

eugene clinton "coob" chapman, b 25 nov 1916, cobban, cippewa co, wi; m. lila (birth surname unknown) [both living as of oct 1988]


sources: chapman genealogy (marian [chapman] berry); sheboygan county, wi vital statistics indexes; federal censuses sheboygan co, wi and chippewa co, wi; ssdi; fond du lac public library; kemper-marsh funeral home, troy, mo; fond du lac commonwealth reporter; minnesota historical society; minnesota vital records; family oral history.