Charles S LaVoy, Sr.

Charles LaVoy, Sr., was the first born of the nine known children of Francois LaVoy and Marie Gouin. He was born on 10 August 1809 at Detroit in his parent's home in the great swamp that has since become Grosse Pointe. He was baptized at Ste. Anne's by none other than the great Fr. Gabriel Richard, the Sulpician priest from Paris who helped found the University of Michigan, brought the first printing press to Michigan and served as a representative in Congress.

Charles LaVoy, Sr., was married on 18 October 1831 in St. Joseph's Church in Erie, MI, to Cathrine Robidou. She was the daughter of Louis Robidou and Archange Bernard and had been born at St. Antoine, River Raisin, which is the modern day Monroe. MI, on 25 November 1814.