Retourner à la fiche de: Zephirin Langevin

Baptême: 13-05-1815, Champlain (N-D-de-La-Visitation), Champlain, Qc (Pierre Zéphirin) (F-X Marcoux, ptre curé). Le père est présent.
Parrain: Pierre Rivard
Marraine: Élisabeth Durand-Chartier
Mariage: (Peter Xavier)
Inhumation: 04-1876, Tiffin (St.Mary's Cemetery), Seneca, Ohio

"Jean Baptiste Langevin is the father of Peter Xavier Lonsway. This is the generation where they changed the spelling of the families last name from Langevin to Lonsway, when they came to America."
"The oldest, Joseph Narcisse, was born February 8, 1818, and came to the United States in 1836; first to Buffalo, New York, and then to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he remained until 1839, when he moved to Sandusky City, Erie County, Ohio; he was naturalized in 1846; he was soon followed to this Country by his youger brothers. Peter in 1841 and Louis in 1844; the trio becoming pioneers of Seneca Count; the two lost no time in becoming naturalized ciizens of the United States. The three brothers from Three Rivers entered into a contract to build, and keep in repairs for eight years, the railroad from Sandusky to Kenton, then call the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, now known as the Big FOur Railroad, division of the New York Central System."
"Joseph was Foreman of the group who laid the ties and also furnished much of the timber used in the project. Besides helping with the railroad bed, Peter was also bookkeeper and paymaster for the All-Brothers Contractors."
"After fulfillment of the contract, the three spent the remainder of their lives in tilling the fertile soil of Seneca County."
"While attending the Train Fair in Chicago, September 26, 1949, Herman Lonsway, great-grandson of Peter, with his family, noted with keen interest the first engine used on the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad. It is well perserved and the oldest of its kind still intact. For this special occasion it was fired with wood, became steamed up; the whistle, bell and mechanism are all operative."
(Source: Roots Web ancestry.com)