I made a plan to meet up with my Dad and my Aunt at the Lafayette Cemetary, which has been there since the mid 1800's. I don't have any photos from the cemetary, but we went there so they could show me the family plot where my Grandma Jean, Papa Lee and other relatives on my Grandma's side of the family are buried. After visiting the cemetary, my Dad took me over near my Grandma's old house to show me what used to be family land. It is quite a facsinating story really! My Grandma Jean's grandparents, Oliver and Julie Dore came down from Canada (originally, they were from France) and found a place to settle and grow an orchard of trees on several acres of property right behind the house that my Grandma lived in with her family for over 50 years (it was just sold after her passing in February of this year). We drove back the 10 minutes or so from my Grandmas's house to find all the homes that are now on the old family land. We spoke to this older gentleman whose parents bought the property from a relative of Oliver and Julie Dore. The windmill in the photo above was on his property that he inherited from his parents, but it used to be on the property that my Great, Great Grandparents owned, shown below.
Right across the street from that man's house is this home with the gate out front. This old oak tree has been there since Oliver and Julie Dore's time and their home used to be to the left of the tree. My Dad has a really old photo of the home, which I used that day to help imagine what the family house looked like back then as I scanned the current property. Julie and Oliver Dore had something like 9 or so children and some of them are buried in the cemetary with my grandparents, including of course my Great Grandparents, Lillian and Frank Dore. I really enjoyed finding out more about my family's history that day...it was truely like taking a step back in time!
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