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St. Felix Cemetery, Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota
The headstone is located next to the headstone of daughter Josephine Rocque Ebersold.
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WABASHA HERALD
Wabasha, Minnesota, Thursday, April 21, 1904
Obituary
Mrs. Joseph Rocque, relict of the late Joseph Rocque, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Ebersold, of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.
The remains were brought here from Alma on Saturday.
The funeral occured from St. Felix church, Father Wurst officiating.
The interment was in St. Felix Cemetery.
Deceased's maiden name was Robinson.
She was born in what is now St. Paul, Minn., in 1810, her father being a Frenchman and her mother a Sioux of Little Crow's band of Indians.
She came to Wabasha previous to 1838 and lived here, up to the death of her husband a few years ago.
She was a good Christian woman and in the early days she and her husband took a very active part in the up building of the St. Felix Catholic parish.
In the early days when most of the people in the parish were poor and the little church here struggling for an existence, the Rocques often came to its support in a financial way.
It was Joseph Rocque and the subject of this sketch that gave, free of charge, to the St. Felix church the old portion of the present St. Felix Cemetery upon the one condition that himself and wife be furnished a lot free of charge in which they might repose when death released them.
Ninety-four is a good, round old age to live.
It has been a history making epoch and a pity it is that the valuable experiences, through which this aged lady has passed and the events of which she had a personal knowledge, could not have been written.
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