Biography
Louisa Isabella Lapier was born 14 Nov. 1891 in Morrisburg, Dundas, Ont., the daughter of Joseph Lapier and Artency Gertrude Myers. She married Gordon Levi Hodge, 13 Nov. 1926 in Rochester, Monroe, NY and they were the parents 3 children. Isabel L. Hodge died 10 Nov 1971 in Watertown, NY.
Children: Mary Lou, Beverly, Charles
Birth
Name: Louisa Isabella Lapier
Event Date: 14 Nov 1891
Event Place: Morrisburg, Williamsburgh, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Marriage
"marriage license, Gordon S. Hodge, Windsor Hotel and Isabel Lapier, No. 14 Backus street. Rochester, Monroe Co., NY. 15 Nov 1926"
Census
1921 Kingston, Ont.
Isabella La Piere, 29, Ontario, Stenographer
1925 Watertown, NY
Isabelle L Lapier, 28, Canada, Lodger
1930 Watertown, NY
Isabelle Hodge Wife F 38 Canada
1940 Watertown, NY
Isabel Hodge Wife F 48 Canada
Death
"Mrs. Isabel Hodge Dies Mrs. Isabel L. LaPier Hodge, 79. of 355 Keyes Ave., a registered nurse and widow of Gordon L. Hodge, died at 10:30 this morning at the House of the Good Samaritan, where she was admitted at 8:45 this morning... Mrs. John (Mary Lou) Hall Little Rock, Ark., Mrs Paul P. (Beverly) Donohue, 928 Academy St. and Charles, Penfield, three step-children. Albert C. Hodge, 333 E. Lynde St., Francis Hodge, 770 Gotham St., and Mrs. Robert (Ruth) Kipp, 137 Highland... Mrs Hodge was born in Canada Nov. 14, 1891, a daughter of Joseph and Artensy Gertrude Myers LaPier." Watertown Daily Times
Personal
"Isabel Hodge told her children the pronunciation of the name was "La-Pear", like the fruit and that they were not French, but rather Scottish" Beverly Hodge Donohue
Sources
- "Ontario Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FM7L-P9F : 13 February 2020), Gertrude A Myer... in entry for Louisa Isabella Lapier, 1891.
- Canada Census 1921, "https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1921/Pages/introduction.aspx"
- "New York State Census, 1925," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSSX-R1Z : 8 November 2014), Isabelle L Lapier, Watertown Ward 04, A.D. 01, E.D. 03, Jefferson, New York, United States; records extracted by Ancestry and images digitized by FamilySearch; citing p. 19, line 49, New York State Archives, Albany.
- "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7ZP-TC6 : accessed 5 March 2020), Gertrude Lapier in household of Gordon Hodge, Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 57, sheet 8A, line 50, family 203, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1443; FHL microfilm 2,341,178.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ1F-JH6 : 18 November 2019), Gerald Lapier in household of Gordon Hodge, Ward 4, Watertown, Watertown City, Jefferson, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23-73, sheet 2A, line 14, family 35, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2545.
- "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJM-QVKB : 18 March 2019), Gertrude Myers in entry for Gordon L Hodge, 13 Nov 1926, Monroe, New York, United States; citing ref. ID 1390, county clerk offices from various counties, New York; FHL microfilm 831,362.
- "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKX-WYBP : 11 July 2016), Isabel Lapier Hodge, ; Burial, Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States of America, North Watertown Cemetery; citing record ID 44929392, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- Hodge Family Chart