Individual Details
Maude Beatrice Berry
(28 Oct 1879 - 28 Oct 1970)
Timeline
1880 - Pleasant Hill, Winona
1900 - Saratoga Twp, Winona
1905 - Winona Ward 1
1920 - Winona Ward 2
1930 - Winona
1965 - Breast Cancer
30 Oct 1970 Burial St Mary's Catholic Cemetery
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Mavis Biesanz about Maude Berry Biesanz
· , Winona, Minnesota
· Maude Beatrice Berry, born October 28th, 1879, was tall, erect,and classically beautiful, with dark hair and luminous great dark eyes. Her friends called her "Princess." By this time, despite the"Calvin," the family was Catholic, and it is said she was very much in love with a young man but would not marry him because he was a stubborn Protestant. At a picnic she teased her cousin Daisy by flirting with her beau, young Charles Philip Biesanz. He offered to take her home. When he lifted her into the buggy, she exclaimed, "My, but you're strong!" He was hooked forever.
guanacaste added this on 18 Mar 2011
From Mavis Biesanz unpublished memoirs, "The Story of Our Life"
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· Maude BerryBiesanz about John Richmond etc.
· 1982
· From Mavis Biesanz unpublished "Family History" 1982
Maude Beatrice Berry Bieanz told Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz:
"My maternal great-grandfather, John Richmond (John Richmond Sr./Jean Ritchman b.1805), lived to be 98; he married a daughter of Michel and Yvonne Boisvert(1). One of their sons, John Richmond(John Richmond Jr./Jean Ritchman b.1823), was my grandfather; he married Zoe Pleurd (or Plourde?)(2) whose mother was an Indian. Grandfather was a well-to-do farmer in
French Canada; he owned three adjoining farms(3). He came to LaCrosse, Wis., from Three Rivers, Quebec(4) about 1850(5) and settled on French Island there.
They (JohnRichmond Jr. and Zoe Plourde) had two daughters, Aunt Tillie and my mother, Orilla (an Indian name). The girls were called "Tillie and Rillie, the Gold Dust Twins."(These were two happy little black boys who appeared on a can of cleansing powder, as I recall.)"(6)"
1) See original of John Richmond's 1827 marriage to Euphrosine Boisvert. Her parents were Michel Boisvert and Veronique Lemaire.
2) The name appears as Plourde in most of the documents.
3) What archive has Quebecois land ownership records? I'd like to verify this, since Maude Biesanz tried to gentrify her ancestors. If he had three farms, why did he leave Quebec?
4) Just south of Trois-Rivieres on the St. Laurence river.
5) 1900 census says he came in 1855.
6) The Gold Dust Twins were advertised on washing powder starting 1890. Both John Richmond Jr. and Sr. had children named Matilda and Orilla/Aurelia, but Rillie and Tille probably refers to John Richmond Jr.'s children, because the Gold Dust advertisement would not have been out when John Richmond Sr.'s children were young.
guanacaste added this on 17 Mar 2011
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1880 - Pleasant Hill, Winona
1900 - Saratoga Twp, Winona
1905 - Winona Ward 1
1920 - Winona Ward 2
1930 - Winona
1965 - Breast Cancer
30 Oct 1970 Burial St Mary's Catholic Cemetery
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Mavis Biesanz about Maude Berry Biesanz
· , Winona, Minnesota
· Maude Beatrice Berry, born October 28th, 1879, was tall, erect,and classically beautiful, with dark hair and luminous great dark eyes. Her friends called her "Princess." By this time, despite the"Calvin," the family was Catholic, and it is said she was very much in love with a young man but would not marry him because he was a stubborn Protestant. At a picnic she teased her cousin Daisy by flirting with her beau, young Charles Philip Biesanz. He offered to take her home. When he lifted her into the buggy, she exclaimed, "My, but you're strong!" He was hooked forever.
guanacaste added this on 18 Mar 2011
From Mavis Biesanz unpublished memoirs, "The Story of Our Life"
===========================
· Maude BerryBiesanz about John Richmond etc.
· 1982
· From Mavis Biesanz unpublished "Family History" 1982
Maude Beatrice Berry Bieanz told Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz:
"My maternal great-grandfather, John Richmond (John Richmond Sr./Jean Ritchman b.1805), lived to be 98; he married a daughter of Michel and Yvonne Boisvert(1). One of their sons, John Richmond(John Richmond Jr./Jean Ritchman b.1823), was my grandfather; he married Zoe Pleurd (or Plourde?)(2) whose mother was an Indian. Grandfather was a well-to-do farmer in
French Canada; he owned three adjoining farms(3). He came to LaCrosse, Wis., from Three Rivers, Quebec(4) about 1850(5) and settled on French Island there.
They (JohnRichmond Jr. and Zoe Plourde) had two daughters, Aunt Tillie and my mother, Orilla (an Indian name). The girls were called "Tillie and Rillie, the Gold Dust Twins."(These were two happy little black boys who appeared on a can of cleansing powder, as I recall.)"(6)"
1) See original of John Richmond's 1827 marriage to Euphrosine Boisvert. Her parents were Michel Boisvert and Veronique Lemaire.
2) The name appears as Plourde in most of the documents.
3) What archive has Quebecois land ownership records? I'd like to verify this, since Maude Biesanz tried to gentrify her ancestors. If he had three farms, why did he leave Quebec?
4) Just south of Trois-Rivieres on the St. Laurence river.
5) 1900 census says he came in 1855.
6) The Gold Dust Twins were advertised on washing powder starting 1890. Both John Richmond Jr. and Sr. had children named Matilda and Orilla/Aurelia, but Rillie and Tille probably refers to John Richmond Jr.'s children, because the Gold Dust advertisement would not have been out when John Richmond Sr.'s children were young.
guanacaste added this on 17 Mar 2011
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Events
| Birth | 28 Oct 1879 | Ridgeway, Minnesota, United States | |||
| Marriage | 28 Jun 1904 | Minnesota City, Minnesota, United States - Charles Philip Biesanz | |||
| Death | 28 Oct 1970 | Winona, Minnesota, United States | |||
| Burial | 30 Oct 1970 | St Mary's Cemetery (Catholic), Winona City, Winona, Minnesota, United States | |||
| Occupation | TEACHER |
Families
| Spouse | Charles Philip Biesanz (1873 - 1968) |
| Child | Beatrice "Betty" Biesanz (1911 - 1971) |
| Child | Charles William Biesanz (1915 - 2002) |
| Child | Peter Biesanz (1919 - 1994) |
| Father | William Calvin Berry (1848 - 1921) |
| Mother | Orilla "Rilla" Richmond (1855 - 1933) |