Seraphine LaFrance Image

Name

Seraphine LaFrance

Born

1893-06-04

Birth Place

Occupation

Sailor

Died

1919-11-23

Death Place

U.S. Marine Hospital, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Death

Heart disease






Service Record 1


Conflict

Wounds

Gassed

Wounded Where

France



Notes

Seraphine LaFrance was born in Teeswater, Ontario. He was the son of Francis (Frank) LaFrance and Lena Van Halton. In 1907, he emigrated to the United States with his father and siblings, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont. Upon his death, he was noted as a Lakeman (Sailor) working for Sailing Salt Water. He died in the U.S. Marine Hospital, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan at the age of 26. His death certificate noted place of burial, cremation or removal as Chesley, Ont. A death notice in the Walkerton Telescope of November 27, 1919, notes the interment in Walkerton.




Sources & Links

- a) Bruce Remembers Feedback
- b) State of Michigan Transcription of Certificate of Death



News Clippings


Walkerton Telescope, November 27, 1919, p1
Walkerton Telescope, November 27, 1919, p1