Charron and Reinke family tree
Treflé Charron immigrated from Quebec in 1863 to Nashua New Hampshire. He met his wife Celina Royer there and they 10 children together. Among them was Jean-Baptiste Charron who would leave to come to South Hadley and work for the military at Westover Air Base. His son Jean-Baptiste Charron the younger and his grandson William Charron would also enter the US Air Force leaving three generations of military families. Jean-Baptiste the younger would marry Bernice Bullough in 1942 just before leaving for military assignment in World War II.
Bernice was the daughter of John Bullough and Paulina Katherine Haas. John and Paulina would have 19 children together in South Hadley between 1911 to 1938. The 1930 and 1940 federal censuses had the family living near me on Pittroff Street with their many children. Immigrant families in mill cities would have mortality rates of about 50% among their children due to diseases. Families in the countryside would have most of their children live. Here all 19 lived to adulthood and lived in the same household into the 1950s. I determined the number of the house that they lived in and went to check a house that would fit 21 people. Well I found a tiny home there and guessed that it was not the one or had been razed. Some of these Bullough family members are still alive and it would be interesting to talk to them about their family.
Gustave Reinke was the son of German immigrants that settled in the Cincinnati Ohio area. His future wife Maude Brannock Morgan was from the farmland country of Sunrise, Kentucky where her parents and grandparents had been born. It is in Harrison County in the north of the state and the population is about 400 people still. Sunrise is about 100 miles from Cincinnati so it is not apparent how they met. What is known is that their son Gustave the younger was born in 1931. He entered the air force to fight in the Korean War and this brought him after that war to service at Westover Air Base.
Louis Roberge was born in the Quebec agricultural village of Wolftown in 1874. His family and he were migrant farm laborers that worked not only in Quebec but also in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. His wife Marie Louise Fredette had been born to Quebec immigrant in 1880 in Holyoke Massachusetts. Her early life was also unsettled but she met her husband-to-be while both with living with their parents in Northfield of New Hampshire in 1901. She must have convinced him to try to get a mill job in Holyoke since they soon settled there permanently. Their son Theodore Roberge was born in 1905. He would marry Marie Ange Martinbeault and have 7 children. One Beatrice would marry Gustave Reinke.
It is hard to find out more about the childhood of Marie Ange Martinbeault. She was born somewhere in Quebec in about 1903 but being a migrant worker makes her hard to pin down. I have neither found her parents nor her birth information. I went to visit her grave at the Forestdale Cemetery in Holyoke. It is a Protestant Cemetery and that is unusual in this case since almost always a man when marrying a Quebec man would convert religions and not vice versa. She is buried near her parents-in-law and near her niece. Hopefully, more will be found in the future.