Richard S Brooks [Parents] was born on 19 Oct 1869 in Brooklyn, New York. He died on 17 Feb 1962 in Springfield, MA. He was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, MA. He married Matilda Lucius on 1 Oct 1909 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Listed on the 1870 census of Brooklyn NY with his parents
Appears on 1920 census of Hampden Co., MA in Springfield at #154 Orange St
Appears on the 1930 census of Hampden Co., MA in Springfield at #174 Whiteside Circle, ED 7-71, p. 15B
Attended Holyoke and Springfield High Schools
Graduate of Amherst College, 1892
Worked as a reporter for the Springfield Republican in 1892-93; Telegraph editor 1893-96; News editor 1896+
Matilda Lucius [Parents] was born 1 in Jun 1866 in Fitchburg, MA. She died on 7 Dec 1937 in Springfield, Mass.. She was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, Mass. She married Richard S Brooks on 1 Oct 1909 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Pease, Frank E.
First marriage at age 16
Spelled her name "Metille" and used her real family surname "DesLauriers"
after she married Richard Brooks.
Listed on 1880 census in Springfield, MA with mother and step-father. As 14 year old, she worked in a silk mill.
Listed on 1900 census of Ellington, Tolland Co., CT; mother of 5, 4 living.
Listed on 1910 census of Springfield, MA with 2nd husband and children; spells her name as "Metille DeL." acknowledging her French heritage substituting Metille for Matilda and using her actual family surname of DesLauriers rather than Lucius.
Listed on 1920 census as wife of Mr. Brooks, 154 Orange St., Springfield, MA
Listed on 1930 census her name is "Metilla DeL." Brooks; her age given as 61 (actually 3 years older); husband's age listed as 61 and a newspaper editor (Springfield Daily Republican) Also in household are: son (by first marriage) Howard (age 44), draftsman, single; daughter Marion (Pease) Coleman (age 34) and Marion's children: Barbara and Richard S. The house was worth $15000Obit: Springfield Daily Republican, Dec 8, 1937:
MRS. R.S. BROOKS DIES IN HOSPITAL; A.I.C. GRADUATEBorn at Fitchburg, But Had Lived Here 50 Years ---Headed Suffrage Extension League in 1915
Mrs. Metille DeL. Brooks, wife of Richard S.. Brooks of Stapleton road, died yesterday morning at Springfield hospital after a brief illness. She was born at Fitchburg, the daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Field) Lucius but had lived in this city about 50 years. Mrs. Brooks was graduated from the academy department of American-International college. During the state campaign for equal suffrage in 1915, she was president of the Suffrage Extension League.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Brooks leaves two sons, Howard E. Pease and Herbert V. Pease, both of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Marion P. Coleman of this city; three grandchildren, Barbara A. and Richard S. Coleman and Dorothy L. Pease; two sisters, Mrs. Stephen Duquette and Mrs. Miles Bronson, both of this city and three brothers, Edward Lucius of Chicopee Falls, Charles Saltus of Madison, Wis., and George Mayo of East Hartford, Ct.
The funeral will be held at the parlors of the Dickinson-Streeter company at 2 Friday afternoon, with an organ prelude by Dorothy Birchard Mulroney at 1:30. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
Isaac Marshall Pease [Parents] was born 1 on 27 Mar 1856 in Washington, Berkshire Co., MA. He died on 25 Aug 1929. He was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, MA. He married Helen Theresa Lucius on 5 Jan 1898 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Cooley, Emma Louise
Listed on the 1880 census of Springfield, MA with first wife Emma
Listed on the 1900 census of Agawam, MA with second wife HelenSpringfield Register, Wed April 7, 1965
Howard H. Pease
ASHFIELD - Funeral services for Howard H. Pease, 79, of Bronson Ave. who died Monday at a local nursing home will take place Thursday afternoon. at 2 in the Ashfield Congregational Church with Rev. Richard Barnett, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plain Cemetery. Visiting hours are this evening from 7 to 9 at the Smith funeral home, Shelburne Falls. was Mr. Pease was born here August 7, 1886 the son of William and Clara (Perry) Pease and had resided all his life in this town. He was a carpenter and builder. He was a trustee of the Sanderson Academy and member of the Congregational Church and the Ashfield Historical Society. Besides his widow, the former Electa Stetson, whom he married Nov 8, 1917, he leaves four sons, Howard of New Milford, Conn; Ruel of Jacksonville, Fla., and Clifton and Ralph of Ashfield,; one daughter Mrs. Lucy Schoreder of Pittsfield; several grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Helen Theresa Lucius [Parents] was born on 26 Aug 1868 in Ashby, MIddlesex Co., MA. She died on 17 Jan 1962 in Springfield, Mass. She was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, Mass.. She married Isaac Marshall Pease on 5 Jan 1898 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Helen was employed as watercolor artist.
Other marriages:Bronson, Miles M.
Birth record is on file at Ashby, MA town clerk's office:
Helen Theresa LUCINS, born 26 Aug 1868, Ashby
Father: Jeremiah LUCINS, age 37
Mother: Philomene Mary S. MAYO [noted as present name], maiden name: DESCHAMPS, age 29
attendant at birth: a neighbor
Informant: Clara Lucins DUQUETTE, sister, address Springfield, MA
No information regarding a baptism.Died at 76 Noel St., Springfield, MA One of the earliest members of
Springfield Hobby Club and winer of many blue ribbons for water color
paintings
They had the following children:
F i Doris Louise Pease was born on 23 Oct 1898. She died on 26 Feb 1993. F ii Evelyn Helen Pease was born on 12 Jan 1900. F iii Bertha Madeline Pease was born on 12 Mar 1902. She died on 13 Mar 1989.
Miles M. Bronson.Miles married Helen Theresa Lucius on 26 Jun 1935 in Springfield?, Massachusetts.
Helen Theresa Lucius [Parents] was born on 26 Aug 1868 in Ashby, MIddlesex Co., MA. She died on 17 Jan 1962 in Springfield, Mass. She was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, Mass.. She married Miles M. Bronson on 26 Jun 1935 in Springfield?, Massachusetts. Helen was employed as watercolor artist.
Other marriages:Pease, Isaac Marshall
Birth record is on file at Ashby, MA town clerk's office:
Helen Theresa LUCINS, born 26 Aug 1868, Ashby
Father: Jeremiah LUCINS, age 37
Mother: Philomene Mary S. MAYO [noted as present name], maiden name: DESCHAMPS, age 29
attendant at birth: a neighbor
Informant: Clara Lucins DUQUETTE, sister, address Springfield, MA
No information regarding a baptism.Died at 76 Noel St., Springfield, MA One of the earliest members of
Springfield Hobby Club and winer of many blue ribbons for water color
paintings
Edward L. Lucius [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 6 May 1871 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He died on 4 Jun 1949 in Holyoke, MA. He was buried CREMATED in Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, Mass.. He married Almina (Minnie) Lathrop in 1889 in Springfield, MA. The marriage ended in divorce. Edward was employed as harness maker.
Appears on 1900 census of Hampden Co. in Holyoke at #90 Bridge St.; harness maker
Lived in Aldenville (part of Chicopee, MA) 40 years prior to death.
Death record on file in Holyoke as he died at the hospital there.
Had problem with alcoholObit - Springfield Daily News, June 6, 1949, Page 25:
Edward L. Lucius
Chicopee, June 5 Edward L. Lucius, 79, of 164 Edwards St., Aldenville, died yesterday at the Holyoke Hospital after a short illness. He was born in Fitchburg and had been a resident of Aldenville for 40 years. Before his retirement several years ago he had been engaged in the harness-making business. He leaves his wife Mrs. Almina (Lathrop) Lucius; a son, Edward L. Lucius, Jr, of Springfield; and a daughter, Mrs. Helen Butler of Thompsonville, Conn, and several nieces and nephews. The funeral will take place at the J. H. Fleury and Sons funeral home, Holyoke, Tuesday at 2. Cremation will follow at Springfield Cemetery, Springfield.
Almina (Minnie) Lathrop [Parents] was born 1 in Jun 1862 in Manchester, New Hampshire. She married Edward L. Lucius in 1889 in Springfield, MA. The marriage ended in divorce.
Listed as a 9 y/o with her family in Chicopee, Hampden Co., MA on the 1880 census
They had the following children:
M i Edward Lathrop Lucius was born on 6 Dec 1892. He died on 7 Sep 1967. F ii Helen Lucius was born on 5 Jun 1895 in Holyoke, MA. She died on 7 Jun 1895 in Holyoke, MA. F iii Helen M. Lucius was born on 25 Sep 1896. She died on 22 Sep 1986.
Thomas Francis Drake [scrapbook] was born on 15 Jan 1881 in New York. He died on 6 May 1955. He was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cem., Rochester, NY. He married Lillian A. Lucius. Thomas was employed as plumbing contractor.
Listed on 1900 census of Springfield, MA in household of his widowed mother Mary and a younger brother Dwane. He worked as a bookkeeper in a plumbing shop.
Per Helen Lucius Butler, Lillian married Tom Drake, moved to N. J., no
further contact
Listed in Springfield, MA in 1918 for WW I draft registration : occupation: master plumber
Listed on 1920 census of Springfield, MA; he was born in NY, father in MA, mother in IrelandThomas Drake listed on the 1930 census of Rochester, NY -he is a 47 y/o, plumber, widower, age 48, address is 354 Court Street.
Lillian A. Lucius [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 1 in Jan 1883 in MA. She died on 1 Jan 1930 in Rochester NY. The cause of death was myocarditis. She was buried 2 on 3 Jan 1930 in Mt. Hope Cem., Rochester, NY. She married Thomas Francis Drake.
Listed on 1900 census of Utica, NY living with parents, single
Listed on 1920 census of Springfield, Hampden Co., MA with husband Tom at #16 Summer Avenue. He is the proprietor of a plumbing shop.
Her mother's obit in May 1926, she is living in Rochester, NY
On 1930 census of Rochester, NY; husband is listed as a boarder, widowerDied at age 42, 11 months, 17 days. Died at Genesee hospital . She is buried at Mt Hope, S.Gr. 40 R214 BB
Houke Bros. Funeral Home conducted services. Funeral home out-of-business as of 1960.
They had the following children:
U i no children.
Nelson Ray Lucius [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 21 Feb 1898 in Brookfield, MO. He died on 11 Apr 1971 in Elk City, KS. He was buried on 13 Apr 1971 in Oak Hill Cem., Elk City, KS. He married Blanche Seller on 17 Jun 1931.
Obituary on Nelson Lucius found in the Independence Daily Reporter dated April 12, 1971
Nelson Lucius, 73, of Route 2 Elk City, died at 7:35 a.m. Sunday in the Caney Municipal Hospital where he had been a patient the past three weeks.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Webb Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Carl Packard officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Elk City.
Nelson Lucius was born February 21, 1898, at Brookfield, Missouri the son of Oliver and Sylvia (Pierce) Lucius. He moved to the Elk City vicinity to the present home site in 1913 and had resided there since that time. He attended Elk City and Independence schools and also attended the University of Kansas. He had been a farmer all his life.
He was a veteran of World War 1. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Missouri, a member of the Elk City Grange and at one time was a member of the Circle Valley school board.
He married Blanche Seller June 17, 1931, and she survives at the home. Also surviving is one sister, Olive Kolodziej of Detroit, Mich.
He was preceded in death by one sister and one brother.
From the Prima Annual of 1916, first annual that was published from Elk City High School. Among the seniors was Nelson Lucius. There is a senior picture and a baby picture of him.
Annual Staff - Joke Editor Nelson Lucius
Next to class picture it reads: Both in orate and debate, Nelson is destined to be great
Page entitled "Concerning Seniors"
Name - Nelson Lucius
Nickname - Nellie
Hobby - Most Anything
Chief Attraction - Sweetness
Past Record - Startling
Favorite Book - Love Making
Junior - Freshman Debate, Monday Night May 17th 1915
Debate resolved: That Caesar was a greater man than Napoleon
Negative side:
Louise Musson, Lucille Clark, Allen McDowell, Nelson Lucius
On page 28: Honors of the Class of '16
....The class won the three prizes offered. Nelson Lucius, Louise Musson, Oscar Owen and Lucille Clark, of the Juniors, debated against Claudine Cook, Amos Bishop, William Pendarvis and William Newkirk, of the Freshman Class on the Question: Resolved - That Napoleon was greater than Caesar" Affirmative Junior team winning. This gave the class a beautiful Silver Cup.
Note: it looks like they also have a picture of the winning debate team, and it sure looks like the same guy (Nelson) in it but it does not name the students under the picture.
Page 31: Senior Wants
#8 - Another Two Year old to play with when Billy Musson is busy playing ball with Howard - Nelson Lucius
Page 42: "High School Statistics" - Pleasantest - Nelson Lucius
"New Additions to the Elk City High School Library" -
Advice to Debaters by Nelson Lucius
Page 44: "A Few Dates to Remember" #5: When Nelson had his Cicero
Page 45: Dramatics - The Haunted Gate by Senior Class Oct. 29, 1915
Cast of Characters Ralph Dodge -----Nelson Lucius
Page 48: (They have what looks like a future newspaper in the book, kind of a fortune telling thing it reads)
The Prima Echo Vol. 7 Elk City, Kans, May 1, 1925 No. 13
under Hymeneal Club Meets Again
After 10 years the Hymeneal Club assembles to carry out the provisions of their organization: .............................
Senator and Mrs. W. R. Lucius ....................
Then Under Personal Squibs: Senator Lucius will speak on the street. Thursday at noon on late war questions.
Page 61: Annual Basket Ball
There is a picture of the basketball team but names not on picture probably Nelson is in it, one guy looks like him) in part reads:
This afternoon, Mr. Harder being a very quiet man, was so surprised by the enthusiasm shown by the boys ...................First team Center Carl Conrad; right guard, Amos Bishop, left guard, Nelson Lucius; right forward Walter Wright; left forward Allen McDowell..... This quintette of plucky fighters played the game hard and fast for about a month, when they were stopped by the fall rains....... Lucius was the most able guard E.C.H.S. has ever had. If Nelson's man ever shot a goal on him it was a "free throw"
(Jackie: There is 2 pages about the basket ball apparently they played nearly all year)
Page 62: Jokes: Who translated the hand writing on the wall to King Belshazzar? Nelson L. "Daniel Boone"
Mr. H. "Name a way to bisect an ice cream cone" Nelson "With your teeth"
"Who was Benedict Arnold?" - Nelson "He was an American general, who went to England and died with his American suit on."
Lucille "Well you can do all the thinking and I'll not do any brain work."
Nelson "Well, you couldn't if you wanted to."
Blanche Seller was born on 16 Sep 1906. She died on 2 Aug 1993 in Caney, KS. She married Nelson Ray Lucius on 17 Jun 1931.
My grandparents are gone. I remember my mother telling about me one time. I started across the field NW to Lucius’s house. My mother couldn’t find me and she looked and seen my red head going through the grass to their house. I always knew that Blanche had cookies so I started out!!! I was about 2-3 years old.
Norma Foster ()May 2011
[norma1@totelcsi.com]
George A. Butler was born about 1885 in MA. He married Helen M. Lucius.
Other marriages:Blanchard, Ethel
Helen M. Lucius [Parents] was born on 25 Sep 1896 in Chicopee, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 22 Sep 1986 in Enfield, Hartford Co., CT. She married George A. Butler. Helen was employed as Knitter at Malone Knitting Co..
Birth date taken from social security death index. 1900 census shows birth
as July, 1895.
1896 vol 457p680 rec 1/1897 - birth recordsCt Death Index 1946 - 1996 - ancestry.com db
Helen L. Butler - file # 19062
b. Sept 25, 1896 in MA
d. Sept 22, 1986 in CT age 89
Father: Lucius
widow: Georg
Res: Elm St, Enfield, CT 06082
Died in: Hartford CT
Occ: Knitter - Malone Knitting CoThe Hartford Courant
Tuesday Sept 23 , 1986
pg B8 col1BUTLER, Helen (Lucius) Butler, 89, of 8 Elm Ave., Enfield, widow of George A.
Butler, died Monday (Sept.22) at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
Born in Holyoke, Mass., she had lived in Enfield the last 60 years. She was
employed by the former Malone Knitting Co. of Springfield, Mass., for 25 years,
retireing in 1962. She was a member of the Enfield Artists Club. She leaves
three sons, Herbert D. Butler of Enfield, George A. Butler II of West
Springfield, Mass., and Ernest Butler of Narragansett, R.I.; three daughters, Helen
Waterhouse of Windsor, Hazel Kelly of Columbus, Ohio, and Pearl Keith of
Longmeadow, Mass.; 17 granchildren; several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Memorial at the Nicholson & Carmon Funeral Home, 443 East St., Suffield.
Burial, at the convenience of the family, will be in the Enfield Street
Cemetery, Enfield. There are no calling hours. Donations may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.
They had the following children:
F i Pearl A. Butler was born on 2 Jan 1909. She died on 4 Dec 2000. M ii Ernest E. Butler was born about 1910 in MA.
Possibly listed as innmate of Doane Orphanage in Longmeadow, Hampden Co., MA on 1920 census - age 9
Living in Narragansett, R.I. in 1986 at time of mother's deathM iii George A. Butler II was born on 15 Nov 1912. He died on 26 Sep 2004. M iv Herbert D. Butler.
Living in Enfield, CT at time of mother's death. 7 Joan Dr
Enfield, CT 06082-3009
(860)745-6752F v Hazel Butler. F vi Helen Butler was born on 26 Nov 1923. She died on 13 Nov 2003.
Antoine Renaud-Deslauriers [Parents] was born on 29 Sep 1774 in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada. He died after 1826. He married Genevieve Mandeville on 3 Oct 1796 in St.Antoine de Richelieu, Quebec, Canada.
Appears on 1825 census at St. Denis; alive in 1826 as he appears as godfather
to his grandson Louis A.
Genevieve Mandeville [Parents] died after 1825. She married Antoine Renaud-Deslauriers on 3 Oct 1796 in St.Antoine de Richelieu, Quebec, Canada.
They had the following children:
M i Jean Baptiste Renaud-Deslauriers was born on 22 Sep 1804. He died before 1847. M ii Francois Renaud dit Deslauriers (Delair) was born on 29 Dec 1809. He died on 22 Jun 1883. F iii Etienne Renaud-Deslauriers. M iv Antoine Renaud-Deslauriers Jr.. F v Marie Anne Renaud-Deslauriers.
Hippolyte (Paul) Lussier [Parents] was born on 3 Nov 1781 in St. Denis sur Richelieu. He was christened 1 on 4 Nov 1781 in St. Denis sur Richelieu. He married Therese Charby on 13 Jun 1803 in Notre Dame du Rosaire, St. Hyacinthe.
Was a member of St. Denis as late as 1825 when Therese married JB
Renaud-Deslaluriers.
At baptism, his godfather was Hyppolite Quay dit Dragon; godmother was Marie Genevieve Lebrodeur Goulet.
Therese Charby [Parents] was born on 7 Oct 1789 in Repentiguy, P.Q.. She was christened on 11 Oct 1789 in Puiification of Bienheureuise Vierge Marie. She died after 1826. She married Hippolyte (Paul) Lussier on 13 Jun 1803 in Notre Dame du Rosaire, St. Hyacinthe.
Was a member of St.Denis as late as 1825; alive in 1826 as godmother to
grandson Louis (Lewis) DesLauriers. Baptised in Repentigny, Quebec - was 4 days old
at the time, Believe she was twin to Charlotte. Her godparents were Francois
Galerneau and Charlotte Bazinet Payette - the same as for Charlotte
They had the following children:
F i Therese Lussier was born on 22 May 1808. She died after 1850. F ii Louise Lussier. M iii Narcisse Lussier was born on 4 Jul 1819. He died on 12 Jul 1819.
Lewis Andrew (Renaud-Deslauriers) Lucius [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 31 Dec 1825 in St. Denis sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. He was christened on 1 Jan 1826 in St. Denis sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. He died on 27 May 1868 in Erving, MA. The cause of death was fever. He married 1 Angele (Angeline) Blake on 24 Jan 1848 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Lewis was employed as harness maker.
On application records he is listed as Lewis Andrew DeLaurian,single, age 22,
parents John & Mary; His Godfather was Antoine Deslaluriers; Godmother was
Therese Charby>From Worcester County Vital Records CD
January 8, 1848 Mr. Andrew Lewis de Laurian made application to me to
be published to Miss Angelina Blake both of Fitchburg J.A. Marshall Town
ClerkOld Records of Fitchburg, De Laurian, Andrew Lewis and Blake, Angelina,
Fitchburg, 1/27/1848Living in Fitchburg on the 1865 state census; only wife and children living in Templeton, MA on the 1870 census.
On New England Historical Genealogical Society records:
Listed as Andrew Lucius.... died May 27,1868 at Erving. Resided there. Aged 50y 4m 27d at death. Married. Born in Canada, son of John and ____ Lucius. Died of "Fever".
Angele (Angeline) Blake [scrapbook] was born 1 on 10 Apr 1832 in Three Rivers, Canada. She died on 27 Oct 1908 in Brooks Village (Templeton), MA. She was buried in St.John's Cem., Gardner, MA. She married 2 Lewis Andrew (Renaud-Deslauriers) Lucius on 24 Jan 1848 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Bruce, Frank
Listed with husband on the 1900 census of Templeton, MA - living with Samuel Lashua
Died at age of 76 yrs, 6 mos., 17 days.
They had the following children:
F i Angele (Angeline) Lucius was born in Sep 1849. She died on 8 Mar 1925. M ii Andrew Lucius was born on 7 Apr 1852. He died on 31 May 1934. M iii Cyrus Lucius was born in Mar 1853. He died on 6 Dec 1940. F iv Rosina (Rosanna) Lucius was born in Jan 1857. She died on 27 Mar 1930. F v Matilda Lucius was born about 1858. F vi Hattie Lucius was born in Jan 1861. She died in 1943. F vii Aurilla Lucius was born about 1860. She died in 1947. F viii Clara Lucius was born in Nov 1862. She died on 23 Apr 1933.