Wilfred Prefontaine

Bef 1834 - Aft 1895  (> 61 years)

• Name	Wilfred Prefontaine
  Birth	Bef 28 Jun 1834  [1]
  Baptism	28 Jun 1834	Saint-Antoine-de-Pade, Longueuil, Québec   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1835	Canada   [2, 3]
  Death	Aft 2 Sep 1895	Portland, Multnomah, Oregon   [4]
  Person ID	I33126	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Alexis Fournier dit Prefontaine,   b. 20 Aug 1791, Longueuil, Québec
  Mother	Marie-Louise Patenaude,   b. 9 Jan 1798, Longueuil, Québec d. 14 Aug 1871, Chateauguay, Québec (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1815	Saint-Antoine-de-Pade, Longueuil, Québec   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F19559	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Neal,   b. 1836, Washington County, Missouri d. Bef Sep 1895 (Age < 59 years)
  Marriage	21 Dec 1874	Jackson County, Oregon   [7]
  Children	+ 1. Frances Louella Prefontaine,   b. 1 Jan 1876, Jacksonville, Jackson, Oregon d. 20 Feb 1951, San Francisco, San Francisco, California (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F19558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was baptized Leon Wilfred Fournier dit Prefontaine. He appears to have arrived in Oregon about 1875. He was a miner, at least part of the time, and his estate contained "mining property." His will mentions his daughter "Frances Carr."

  
  

• Sources

  [S52] Quebec vital and church records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968, on ancestry.com. [S4021] 1910 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com., Not named; birth country given (Canada, French). [S2244] 1880 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S5165] Oregon, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1849-1963, on ancestry.com. [S5199] Genealogy of Canada site. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024., date and town only. [S5167] Nancy Neal, in the Early Oregonians database at the Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon.