Person:Émile Bastien (2)

Though oral history held that Émile was a French-Canadian fur-trapper, there is no evidence to support this. It would seem that he was confused with his wife's second husband, Antony Nicolas, who was French but emigrated to Canada where he worked as a logger and later in the fur trade.

Émile likely died in WWI while storming a German embattlement near Carency, France. He is buried nearby in a national cemetery.

Although he died several years after his wife left with their eldest daughter, it is not yet known if they divorced or if his wife just "ran off" with Antony Nicolas.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Naissances, 1875, in Gironcourt-sur-Vraine (Vosges). Officier de l'état civil. Registres de l'état civil, 1793-1892. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974-1975).

   Émile Marie Alix, fils légitime de Charles François Bastien et Catherine Marie Odile Chambrot, né le 15 décembre 1875 à Gironcourt-sur-Vraine

2. ↑ Recensement de Maxéville, in 1906 : Recensement de la population.

   Emile Bastien, Léontine Jardin, Suzanne Bastien, Adrienne Bastien, Emilienne Bastien

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Bastien, Emile, in Mémoire des hommes.

   Emile BASTIEN
   Mort pour la France le 09-05-1915 (Carency, 62 - Pas-de-Calais, France)
   Né(e) le/en 15-12-1875 à Gironcourt-sur-Vraine (88 - Vosges, France)
   39 ans, 4 mois et 25 jours
   Carrière
   Statutmilitaire - Terre
   Gradesoldat de 2e classe
   Unité360e régiment d'infanterie (360e RI)
   Classe1895
   Bureau de recrutementNeufchâteau (88)
   Matricule au recrutement303