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GENEALOGICAL TIMELINE
Madaline Rocque is the daughter of the mixed-blood (French & unknown Native tribe) trapper/trader Dennis Robinson and a Mdewakanton woman from Little Crow's band.
She was born around 1810 in Minnesota Territory.(now the St. Paul, MN area) Around 1838 she arrived in the Wapashaw area (now Wabasha, MN) with her family.
She marries Joseph Rocque in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on 15 Jun 1837.
[Source: April 21, 1904 obituary, Wabasha Herald]
On 20 Jul 1850 she is enumerated on the 7th Federal Census:
Madelene Rocque, age 28, is living in the county of Wabashaw, Territory of Minnesota with husband Joseph Rocque.
Children listed are Joseph, Jr. age 10; Domitille (Mathilda) , age 8; Baptiste, age 9; Louis Joseph (Josephine) age 2
She appears on the 8th Federal Census on 30 Jun 1860:
Madeline Rocque, age 43, is living in county of Wabashaw, State of Minnesota with husband Joseph Rocque.
Children listed are Baptist, age 20; Mathilda, ago 14, Josephine age 12, Leander, age 5; Felix, age 1.
Joseph Jr has set out elsewhere on his own or has passed to the spirit world since the last census.
On 08 Jun 1865 she appears on the 1865 Minnesota State Census:
Madaline Rocque, female, is living in city of Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota with husband, Jo Rocque.
Children listed are Matilda, Josephine and Felix.
Note: Madaline's first name has been variously recorded as Madaline, Adaline, Madeline & Magdelana.
Her husband is variously recorded as Joseph and Jo.
The surname of Rocque is variously recorded as Rocque, La Rocque & Rock.
On 01 Jun 1870 Madaline Rocque appears on the 9th Federal Census:
Magdalena Rock, 50 yr. old female Indian, is living in Town of Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin with husband Joseph Rock, 50 yr. old male Indian.
Only child listed is Felix, 12 yr. old male Indian.
According to St. Felix church records, Wabasha, Minnesota records, Madeline Rocque's husband, Joseph Rocque, dies in Buffalo County, Wisconsin on 20 Feb 1875.
On 10 Feb 1876, Adeline Rock, widow of Joseph Rock, purchases 80 acres of homstead land. [S½ - SE - 8 - 22- 12] in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
The given name listed was spelled Adaline with the second "a" crossed out and corrected with an "e."
Land description: "South half of the South East quarter of Section eight; in Township twenty two of Range twelve West; in the District of Lands subject to sale at La Crosse Wisconsin containing Eighty acres;"
[Homestead Certificate No. 3107, Application 4644, downloaded copy of Title Transfer from BLM website]
On 26 Feb 1876 the land is deeded the 80 acres to Charles Ebersold, Jr.
[Source: Transcription from Donna Carothers,Register of Deeds, Buffalo County, Wisconsin]
Madaline Rocque is listed on the 1889 (Prairie Island Settlement) supplement to the 1886 Loyal Mdewakanton census.
She is living at the time in the household of her daughter-in-law, Susan Rocque, the widow of Felix Rocque.
Felix is the youngest child of Madaline and Joseph Rocque.
On 13 Apr 1904 Mrs. Joseph (Madaline) Rocque dies at the home of her daughter, Josephine (Rocque) Ebersold in town of Tell, Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
[Source: April 21, 1904 obituary, Wabasha Herald]
Magdalena Roque (1810-1904) is interred 16 Apr 1904 at the St. Felix Cemetery, Wabasha, Minnesota.
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