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- Matilda Beulah (Simon) Blair was born on 26 Oct 1855 in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, USA and died 28 Jul 1928 in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Her parents were Otto Simon (1833-1908) and Maria Barbara Kriker (1828-1903). They were from near Frankfurt, Germany - Friesenhausen, Fulda, Hesse-Kassel, Germany. They emigrated to Canada in Aug 1952 via New York (on "The Augustus" from Bremen, Germany). They lived in Troy for a few years, where Matilda was born, and then moved to Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA abt 1857, where her brother Wilhelm was born in Apr 1958.
They ended up shortly after in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, USA and there they farmed and raised their children.
Matilda was age 15 when she wed Louis Prudent Blair (1851-1934 -Find A Grave Memorial# 116526532) on 10 Jan 1871 in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, USA.
Louis P. and Matilda moved to Thief River Falls, Red Lake, Wisconsin, USA in 1897 and then in the Spring of 1906 they moved with several of their children to Canada and took a homestead near Leask, Saskatchewan, Canada (around Kilwinning) on NW, Section 32, Township 46, Range 5, Meridian W3. They farmed there until she died in 1928.
Louis P. went to live with his daughter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - where he died on 9 Mar 1934.
All in all, they had 11 children: 10 daughters and 1 son.
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1855 - 1928 (72 ans)
