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Note: K-20/21 NARCISSE LESSARD/NELSON LASSER/MARIE-CATHERINE LA FRENIERE 6. Charles Narcisse b. 25 November 1866, Maskinongé, P.Q. m. Mary Fair 9 February 1892 Cook Co IL (179381) d. 26 October 1939 Traverse City, Grand Traverse Co, MI
Charles' baptism is recorded at Maskinongé, P.Q., Canada, 25 November 1866, as Charles Narcisse, son of Narcisse Lessard and Marie Lafreniere.
Charles is then found the U. S. 1870 census:
1st Ward, Muskegon City, Muskegon Co, MI 1870 Page 263, Dwelling 141, Family 141, 6 Aug LAWSON, Elias, 34 M W, laborer, Canada, father/mother foreign born, cannot read or write Mary, 28 F W, keeps house, Canada, father/mother foreign born, cannot read or write Melissa, 10 F W, Canada, father/mother foreign born, attended school Zacariah, 9 M W, Canada, father/mother foreign born, attended school Alexander, 6 M W, Canada, father/mother foreign born, attended school Charles, 3 M W, Canada, father/mother foreign born, Eva, 1 F W, Canada, father/mother foreign born 1st Ward, Muskegon City, Muskegon Co, MI 1880 ED 192, Sheet 66, Line 29, 21 June; Sophia St, Dwelling 620, Family 680 LASSER, Narcis, head, WM, 44, married, works on boom, 4 mos unemployed last year; cannot read or write; born Canada; fa/mo born Can/Can Mary, wife, WF, age 39, keeping house, cannot read or write; born Canada; fa/mo born Can/Can Issiah, son, WM, age 19, single, works on boom, not unemployed last year; can read and write; attended school last year; born Canada; fa/mo born Can/Can Alexander, son, WM, age 15, single, works on boom, 4 mos. unemployed last year; can read and write; attended school last year; born Canada; fa/mo born Can/Can Charles, son, WM, age 13, single, works in lath mill, 4 mos. unemployed last year; can read and write; attended school last year; born Canada; fa/mo born Can/Can Delia, dau, WF, age 9, single, attended school las year; born Michigan; fa/mo born Can/Can Eddie, son, age 4, single, born Michigan; fa/mo b. Can/Can Moses, son, age 8 mos., single, born last October in Michigan; fa/mo born Can/Can Charles appears in the 1889-90 Muskegon city directory, page 196: "Lasser, Chas, lab, Muskegon Booming Co, bds 44 Ambrosia. He must have moved to Chicago in the early 1890's for we find his Cook County marriage license (#179381) between "Mr. Charley Lasser" "of the age of 24 years" and "Miss Mary Fair" "of the age of 19 years". License issued 9 February 1892 and marriage ceremony same date, by a "Minister of the Gospel" "W. F. C. Werner", who performed the ceremony in Chicago. Short form -- no other info. Daughter Mabel was born in October 1892.
In 1900, we find Charles in Chicago's Ward 33, the same ward in which we find his elder brother Alexander. This enumeration shows Charles born on exactly the date we would anticipate, but born in Michigan -- lending credence to the family statements that they came to Michigan in 1865.
Ward 33, Hyde Pk Twp, Chicago, Cook Co, IL 1900 132 91st St; ED 1059; p. 48B, line 83 Lasser, Charles, head; W M; b. Nov 1866; age 33; married; married 8 yrs; born MI; fa/mo born CAN-Fr/CAN-Fr; occupation: boilermaker; can read, write, speak English; rents house , Mary, wife; W F; b. Mar 1873; age 27; married; married 8 yrs; bore 3 children, 2 still living; born PA; fa/mo born PA/PA; can read, write, speak English , Mable I, dau; W F; b. Oct 1892; age 7; single; born IL; fa/mo born MI/PA, can read and speak English , Ralf, son; W M; b. Feb 1898; age 2; born IL; fa/mo MI/PA The Mary Lasser who died in Chicago 17 February 1902 was not Mary Fair Lasser, but was a Mary Ellen Lasser born in reading, PA. I have been unable to locate Charles or Mary in the 1910 census.
?Where? 1910
A search of the 1917 and 1918 Muskegon city directories was negative.
Marie Crane, in her letter to me dated 2 March 1976, said: "There was an Uncle Charlie but he left his family and he died quite a few years ago." He may well have done so, or been widowed (he is enumerated as "single"), for he is alone in the 1920 census, one of eight lodgers in the household of Thomas and Lucy J. Standish.
Pct 10, Muskegon City, Muskegon Co, MI 1920 8-9 Jan; ED 133, Sheet 7B, Line 53, HH 164, Miller Block HH of Thomas and Lucy J. Standish Charles Lasser, lodger, M, W, 52, single, US Citizen, can read and write, born MI, fa/mo born Can-Fr/Can-Fr, can speak English, occupation: blacksmith in a foundry, works for wages The 1921 Muskegon city directory did not record Charles Lasser. It did show a Thomas Standish in Muskegon heights, a blacksmith, residing at 1912 Woodlawn. The 1922 and 1924 directories were likewise negative for Charles.
I was unable to find Charles in the 1930 census. However, he was mentioned in the obituary of his sister Mable (Muskegon Chronicle, 1 February 1937, page 2, col. 3):
MRS. MABLE BASSETT.
Relatives in Muskegon have received word of the death of Mrs. Mable Bassett, 77 years old, at her home in Grand Rapids, Saturday.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Ruth M. Mills, Grand Rapids; five brothers, Alec Lasser, Chicago, and Charles, Edward, Moses, and Delore Lasser, and a sister, Mrs. Delia Mousseau, all in Muskegon.
The body will be brought to Muskegon, Tuesday, for burial from St. Jean's church at 10 a.m.
According to the database, Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952, Charles died 26 October 1939.
Name: Charles Lasser Event Type: Death Event Date: 26 Oct 1939 Event Place: Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States Gender: Male Age: 73 Marital Status: Married Birth Date: 27 Nov 1865 Birthplace: Canada Birth Year (Estimated): 1866 Father's Name: Nelson Lasser Mother's Name: Catherine Lafraira
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