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 Paquette/Salgot
of St. Clair Co., MI (3 of 4)
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Henrietta
"Hattie"
Paquette |
Henrietta "Hattie" born August 6, 1884, third daughter of Edward and Anna Paquette, would also go off at an early age to work as a domestic in various households. On January 9, 1906, at the Holy Cross Church in Marine City, Henrietta Paquette married Henry Salgot. This union would be witnessed by Hattie's sister and brother, Emma and Edmund Paquette. They would be the first of three Paquette/Salgot marriages. Two Paquette sisters and one brother would marry two Salgot brothers and one sister. Hattie and Henry had five children: Hilda, Francis "Frank," Fern, Foster, and James "Duane".
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Emma
Paquette |
Emma, born April 13,1882, was the first child of Edward and Anna Paquette. A vivacious young woman who held many types of jobs to help support the family, she would at times sail with her brother Edmund and his wife, Alice, and help to "keep ship." Emma must have been a great cook because one winter on a scow in Buffalo, New York, it was said that they passed Emma to other scows so she could cook for them! On January 23, 1911, Emma Paquette married William Salgot, a stout, robust young man and the brother of Henry Salgot. They would be the last of the Paquette/Salgot marriages. In just a little over a year, William caught typhoid fever and was dead with in two weeks. Emma gave birth to their only son, William, several months later on November 10, 1912. She took "Billie" and moved into her sister Elizie's home at 184 South Belle River Ave. When Billie was about 4 years old Emma took a job at the Mullens Ice Cream Parlor. On a Thursday evening, August 30, 1917, Emma, while returning home from the parlor fell out of a small scow and drowned in the Belle River. The particulars will never be known but some surmise that she either slipped and fell backwards while laying down her parcels or fainted and fell in, as she was not feeling very well that day. Little Billie, who his Aunt Elizie called "the best and dearest little child" became one of Elizie's children. He always called her mother and would care for her in her later years. Through the years, Bill would spend much time with Hattie and Henry Salgot, George and Edna Salgot, Belle and August Forstner, and Edmund and Alice Paquette, and always seemed to blend right in with the rest of their children and seemed more like a very close brother than a cousin.
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