Emma Bedard

The first mention of Louis Bedard in the US Census is in 1900, where, at age 32, he lives on a farm and rents a house in Pownal, Vt. with his wife, Evalina, and six children. He immigrated from Canada, where he and his wife were born, in 1872, and was married around 1887. The children listed were Marcy L Bedard (Jan, 1889), Evaline Bedard (May, 1890--my grandmother), Louis Bedard, Jr (Sept 1891), Emma Bedard (Oct 1893), John Bedard (Aug 1896), Delia Bedard (Dec. 1899--5 mo. old). Only Marcy was born in Canada.

By the 1910 US Census, Louis and the family were living in North Adams, MA on 32 Miner St. Louis was 42 at the time, and had three more children in the preceding decade: Louisa (b. 1892 in VT.), Grace (b. 1894 in North Adams), and Arthur (b. 1896 also in N. Adams). He worked as a weaver in a woolen mill and his oldest three children, now 20, 19, and 16, worked there, too. (Marcy, Evaline (my grandmother), and Emma)