Mary Ann Voutrin-Testimony

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9:54 AM Mon Jan 22 

 Age of Mary Ann Voutrin. ( No. 123. ) - / 8 ? 

Her own testimony. 

Ques. What is your age ? 

Ann. 57. Ques. 

Your blood ? 

Ann. My father was an Iroquois Indian named Louis Marchelle, usually called Frizzee on account of his curly hair, and my mother was a Marysville Indian woman. 

Ques. Mrs. Voutrin, will you please tell us where you were born and give us briefly some facts about your life ? 

Ann. I was born at Marysville, Oregon, (now Corvallis) and when I was small was taken to French Prairie and was sent to the Sisters' School at St. Paul (Oregon) until I was fifteen. 

Was married there to Joseph Brule, a French Canadian, and went to Cowlitz and later to Victoria, British Columbia. 

Lived there till he died and had six children by him only two are living now, Ellen and Cecille. 

Neither this husband nor any of his children ever came here. Two years after my husband died, I married John Baptiste Voutrin, a Canadian. By Mr. Voutrin I had nine children, and when I came to the reservation seven of them were living. 

My husband and five of the children came here with me. My first husband was a citizen in Victoria but Mr. Voutrin was not a citizen there. He was a citizen though in St. Paul, Oregon, and voted there. 

We came to the reservation about 1855, when John B. (Hob) was about nine years old. The reason we came was because Bishop Sagherly brought word that my mother, who lived on this reservation, was dead.

 My son Peter and I came first and then we went to French MARY ANN BRULE VAUTRIN BORN - 1832-DIED - 1922