Charles BRISBOIS
- Born: 8 Mar 1798, Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, WI
- Marriage: Ann SMITH
- Died: 13 Aug 1847 at age 49
Noted events in his life were:
• Cemetery: St. Gabriel's Cemetery, 1847, Crawford County, WI. Brisbois
Charles Mar 8,1798---Aug 13,1847,Mexican War,husband of Ann Smith
Joseph died Jan 14,1849,age 49 years (unknown if stone)
Thersa buried Apr 19,1851,age 7 years (unknown if stone)
George buried July 1,1853 (unknown if stone)
Lucian Oct 12,1855---buried Aug 15,1855 (unknown if stone)
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• Cemetery: L'ancien Cimetiere Francais, 1847, Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, WI. This sign is in a very old French Cemetery. On this sign are the names of two veterans that are buried in this cemetery: Lieut. Charles Brisbois 1847 and Capt. Henry Monroe Fisher 1827. (Crawford Co. Historical Society, 1967. Predates official Wisconsi
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• Reference: Crawford County, Wisconsin History: Crawford County, WI. Chapter 10 - First Settlement of the County
Charles Brisbois, son of Michael Brisbois, was born in 1798. After the peace of 1815, he engaged in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and returned home in 1843, after twenty-eight years' absence. He was a lieutenant in Capt. Wiram Knowlton's company, raised in the Mexican War to occupy Fort Crawford, at Prairie du Chien, while the regulars had gone to the front for service during that war; and was engaged in the removal of Indians to the west, and died of fever in the old garrison at Prairie du Chien, in 1848.
[http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/crawford/history/chap10.htm]
Charles married Ann SMITH.
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