“Wanbdi Ho’ta Waste emankiyepi do, nakun Damakota”
(I am called Grey Good Eagle, and I am a Dakota)
“Mitakuye Owasin”
(All My Relations)
Dated: March 27, 2022
My GGG – Grandfather Michel LeMay was born in Lotbinere, Quebec (New Canada) October 21, 1805 and his wife Marie Palagie Monfette was born January 8, 1812. They were married in January 8, 1828. They had the following 8 boys and 4 girls:
Flavianne LeMay 1828 –
Joseph Octave LeMay 1829 – 1892
Edward LeMay 1831 –
Julia LeMay 1833 –
Ferdinand LeMay 1835 – 1921
Louis Phillips LeMay 1839 – 1912
Phillan LeMay 1841 – 1912
Napoleon LeMay 1843 – 1901
Mathias LeMay 1844 – 1896
Victisine LeMay 1846 – 1911
Esdras LeMay 1848 – 1849
Celina LeMay 1852 – 1922
My GG – Grandfather Napoleon LeMay was born in Lotbinere, Quebec, (New Canada) May 1843 and his 1st wife Ellen Turpin was born June 6,1850. They were married in Mendota, MN in 1866. They had the following 1 boy and 3 girls:
Mary Melvina LeMay 1868 – 1942
Virginia LeMay 1869 – 1923
Albert Louis LeMay 1871 – 1952
Alta Madeline LeMay 1884 –
2nd wife Justine Robilliard was born 1836 North Dakota and died 1898 North Dakota. They were married 1889 and Justine had 3 boys and 3 girls before there marriage.
3rd wife Elise Morin was born 1863 North Dakota and died 1939 MT. They were married 1897 in North Dakota and they had the following 1 boy and 1 girl:
Flora C. LeMay 1898 –
Frederick Louis LeMay 1900 – 1975
My G – Grandfather Albert Louis LeMay was born June 26, 1871 Mendota, MN and died International Falls, MN 4/29/1952. His wife Marie Margaret Villeneuve/Vilneif born January 18, 1877 MN and died May 22, 1940 Koochiching, MN. They were married in ND in 1892. They had the following 6 boys and 9 girls:
Mary Evangeline LeMay (McClanahan) Born: 1890 Died: 1958
Rosie LeMay (Ledioux) Born: 1892 Died: 1957
Lena Angeline LeMay (Williams) Born: 1895 Died: 1958
Fred LeMay Born: 1896 Died: 1975
Philbert Louis LeMay Born: 1897 Died: 1980
Mildred LeMay (Resser) Born: 1899 Died: 1972
Frank Napoleon LeMay Born: 1901 Died: 1978
Leo Oren LeMay Born: 1904 Died: 1979
Clemence Joseph LeMay Born: 1905 Died: 1981
Olive LeMay (Turcotte) Born: 1907 Died: 1968
Marie LeMay (Jamieson/Lawrence) Born: 1911 Died: 1989
Eugene David LeMay Born: 1913 Died: 1972
Irene LeMay (Long) Born: 1915 Died: 2004
Lucille LeMay (Simmons) Born: 1918 Died: 1996
Bernice Blanche LeMay (Merrill) Born: 1921 Died: 2008
Descendancy of Chevalier, LeMay & Turpin
I have researched with the following:
Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan (CANADA – 1620 to present)
Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community / Mendota, MN (1845 to present)
Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes / Poplar, MT (1900 to present)
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa / Belcourt, ND (1892 to 1934)
The family lived in New Canada until moving to Minnesota (Dakota Territory) in 1845 and ended up settling in Mendota/Eagan. In 1887 many Minnesota Dakota’s & Half Bloods families moved to North Dakota and a few moved to Montana to be with family.
During the Civil War two brothers joined the US Army in Eagan, MN in 1862 thru 1864 and another brother was in from 1862 thru 1867.
Many of my ancestors where massacred by the US Army for being Half-Breeds or Dakota Indians.
On December 26, 1862 the President Abraham Lincoln sent a congressional order to Brigadier General H. H. Sibley and approved death sentences for 39 Dakota men to be hung.