PASSING OF FIRST WHITE WOMAN SETTLER
The first white woman to settle in what is now Neche Township died on Monday morning of ills incident to old age - Mrs. Olive Allord. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church yesterday morning. Rev. Forbes officiating, and interment made in the cemetery of that denomination. The pall bearers were Peter, Jerry and Alphonse Auger, L. Capitan, Theodore Malo and B. Demarse.
Deceased leaves surviving five children - Madames P. Auger and L. Capitan of Bathgate, Rochelle Allord of Portland, Oregon, and Noah and Noel Allord of Neche.
Mrs. Allord and her husband, who preceded her in death 25 years ago, came to Pembina via Duluth from Montreal in 1870, and from Pembina in a "covered wagon" to this township. They took up a homestead, the one now occupied by her son N. G. with whom she made her home and where she passed away at the age of 85.
Aside from the Allords, there were but two persons in this section - Peter St. Amour and Mr. Ethier - both unmarried at that time. It was desolate and lonesome country, especially so for a woman, and as Mr. Allord was a carpenter she was left alone much of the time. She since has related to her children how, in their father's absence, she would succumb to a flood of tears she was unable to suppress for hours as the sense of her loneliness prevaded her being. Mr. Allord would walk to Pembina to ply his trade, and it is said that he built the first house at that place. Truly, life of the bona fide pioneer is fraught with hardships and misgivings.
[Neche Chronograph, Friday March 2, 1928]
The first white woman to settle in what is now Neche Township died on Monday morning of ills incident to old age - Mrs. Olive Allord. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church yesterday morning. Rev. Forbes officiating, and interment made in the cemetery of that denomination. The pall bearers were Peter, Jerry and Alphonse Auger, L. Capitan, Theodore Malo and B. Demarse.
Deceased leaves surviving five children - Madames P. Auger and L. Capitan of Bathgate, Rochelle Allord of Portland, Oregon, and Noah and Noel Allord of Neche.
Mrs. Allord and her husband, who preceded her in death 25 years ago, came to Pembina via Duluth from Montreal in 1870, and from Pembina in a "covered wagon" to this township. They took up a homestead, the one now occupied by her son N. G. with whom she made her home and where she passed away at the age of 85.
Aside from the Allords, there were but two persons in this section - Peter St. Amour and Mr. Ethier - both unmarried at that time. It was desolate and lonesome country, especially so for a woman, and as Mr. Allord was a carpenter she was left alone much of the time. She since has related to her children how, in their father's absence, she would succumb to a flood of tears she was unable to suppress for hours as the sense of her loneliness prevaded her being. Mr. Allord would walk to Pembina to ply his trade, and it is said that he built the first house at that place. Truly, life of the bona fide pioneer is fraught with hardships and misgivings.
[Neche Chronograph, Friday March 2, 1928]
PASSING OF FIRST WHITE WOMAN SETTLER
The first white woman to settle in what is now Neche Township died on Monday morning of ills incident to old age - Mrs. Olive Allord. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church yesterday morning. Rev. Forbes officiating, and interment made in the cemetery of that denomination. The pall bearers were Peter, Jerry and Alphonse Auger, L. Capitan, Theodore Malo and B. Demarse.
Deceased leaves surviving five children - Madames P. Auger and L. Capitan of Bathgate, Rochelle Allord of Portland, Oregon, and Noah and Noel Allord of Neche.
Mrs. Allord and her husband, who preceded her in death 25 years ago, came to Pembina via Duluth from Montreal in 1870, and from Pembina in a "covered wagon" to this township. They took up a homestead, the one now occupied by her son N. G. with whom she made her home and where she passed away at the age of 85.
Aside from the Allords, there were but two persons in this section - Peter St. Amour and Mr. Ethier - both unmarried at that time. It was desolate and lonesome country, especially so for a woman, and as Mr. Allord was a carpenter she was left alone much of the time. She since has related to her children how, in their father's absence, she would succumb to a flood of tears she was unable to suppress for hours as the sense of her loneliness prevaded her being. Mr. Allord would walk to Pembina to ply his trade, and it is said that he built the first house at that place. Truly, life of the bona fide pioneer is fraught with hardships and misgivings.
[Neche Chronograph, Friday March 2, 1928]
The first white woman to settle in what is now Neche Township died on Monday morning of ills incident to old age - Mrs. Olive Allord. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church yesterday morning. Rev. Forbes officiating, and interment made in the cemetery of that denomination. The pall bearers were Peter, Jerry and Alphonse Auger, L. Capitan, Theodore Malo and B. Demarse.
Deceased leaves surviving five children - Madames P. Auger and L. Capitan of Bathgate, Rochelle Allord of Portland, Oregon, and Noah and Noel Allord of Neche.
Mrs. Allord and her husband, who preceded her in death 25 years ago, came to Pembina via Duluth from Montreal in 1870, and from Pembina in a "covered wagon" to this township. They took up a homestead, the one now occupied by her son N. G. with whom she made her home and where she passed away at the age of 85.
Aside from the Allords, there were but two persons in this section - Peter St. Amour and Mr. Ethier - both unmarried at that time. It was desolate and lonesome country, especially so for a woman, and as Mr. Allord was a carpenter she was left alone much of the time. She since has related to her children how, in their father's absence, she would succumb to a flood of tears she was unable to suppress for hours as the sense of her loneliness prevaded her being. Mr. Allord would walk to Pembina to ply his trade, and it is said that he built the first house at that place. Truly, life of the bona fide pioneer is fraught with hardships and misgivings.
[Neche Chronograph, Friday March 2, 1928]
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