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     Desire James SHANEY, was born on 25 December 1894 in Tomahawk, WI, USA.¹ He married Hazel BURDICK, daughter of Benjamin (Ben) Franklin BURDICK and Gertrude KEMP (KANT), on 14 November 1917 in Tomahawk, WI.¹ He died on 15 January 1992 in Rhinelander, WI, USA, at the age of 97.¹

     Douglas Wayne PARSONS, was born circa 1972.¹ He married Carie Lyn CHENEZ, daughter of Roger Louis CHENEZ and Sheila Rae HICKS, on 11 September 1999 in Newfane, NY, USA.¹

     Serge CHENIER, was born circa 1945.¹

     Elise Augustine GERMAIN, was born on 16 July 1879 in Leclercville, QC, Canada,¹ and was baptized on 16 July 1879 in Ste-Emmélie, Leclercville, QC, Canada.¹ She married Odilon (Del) CHENAY, son of Evangéliste (Jean) CHENE and Marcelline LALANDE, on 17 February 1903 in WA, USA.² She died on 9 December 1960 in Tacoma, WA, USA, at the age of 81³ and was buried on 14 December 1960 at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Tumwater, WA, USA.³

     Christine (Christy) CHENIER, was born on 2 September 1962 in Pacifica, CA, USA.¹ She married Robert DELICINO on 31 May 1980.¹

     Robert Charles CHENIER, was born on 4 November 1926 in Olympia, WA, USA. He died on 22 November 2016 in Lacey, WA, USA, at the age of 90¹ and was buried in November 2016 at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Tumwater, WA, USA.¹

     Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, was born on 3 June 1847 in Arroyo Hondo, Chamisal, New Mexico Territory, USA.
English translation of baptism record:
In this parish of Taos on the 5th of June 1847,
I the parish priest Don Antonio Jose Martinez solemnly baptized
and placed holy oils and sacred christening on the baby girl of two days
whom I named Maria Teresa legitimate daughter of Antonio LeDux and Juana Catarina Vigil.
Residents of this plaza de Los Dolores. Grandparents are Juan de Jesus Vigil and Maria Paula Valdes.
God parents are Jesus Vigil and Maria Guadalupe Salanda neighbors of the same place.^1,2,3,4



She married Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE, son of Félix CHENE and Adelaide COURTEAU, on 28 January 1864 in Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe), Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA.^5,6,4 She died on 7 January 1906 in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, USA, at the age of 58⁷ and was buried in January 1906 in San Gallinas, NM, USA.⁸

     José Pedro CHENE, was born on 14 June 1874 in Trinidad, CO, USA.^1,2 He married Julianita S. LOPEZ, daughter of Juan José Miguel LOPEZ and Maria Aniceta ROMERO, on 13 May 1895 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.^2,3 He died on 20 July 1925 in Las Vegas, NM, USA, at the age of 51^4,2 and was buried on 22 July 1925 at the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Las Vegas, NM.⁴

     Juanita CHENE, was born on 18 July 1872 in Las Vegas, NM, USA.^1,2,3 She married Belisandro ORTEGA, son of Joaquin ORTEGA and Maria Juanita LOPEZ, on 25 July 1889 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.⁴ She died on 13 December 1934 in Las Vegas, NM, at the age of 62^1,5,3 and was buried in December 1934 Mount Calvary Cemetery in Las Vegas, NM.⁶

     Felonia (Felicia) (Felonisa) (Feloniz) CHENE, was born in May 1871 in Las Vegas, NM, USA.^1,2 She married Adolfo SANDOVAL, son of Juan SANDOVAL and Juana HYDALGO, on 18 July 1888 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.³ She died on 27 April 1924 in Albuquerque, NM, USA, at the age of 52⁴ and was buried on 29 April 1924 at the San Jose Cemetery in San Jose, CA, USA.⁵

     Ada "Adélaïde" (Ida) (Adele) CHENE, was born circa 1866 in Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA.¹ She married Thomas WALLACE, son of John WALLACE and Maria Carmel (Carmen) HERNANDEZ, on 3 February 1886 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.^2,3 She married (?) LOFAS before 1955.⁴ She died on 30 January 1955 in Las Vegas, NM, USA.⁵

     Antonio Manuel CHENE, was born in 1865 in Las Vegas, NM, USA.^1,2 He married Candelaria ARVISO (ARBISO) in 1891 in New Mexico Territory, USA.^1,2 He died in 1929.¹

     Candelaria ARVISO (ARBISO), was born in 1865 in Chihuahua, Mexico.¹ She married Antonio Manuel CHENE, son of Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE and Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, in 1891 in New Mexico Territory, USA.^2,1 She died on 2 May 1959 in San Rafael, CA, USA.¹

     Julianita S. LOPEZ, was born on 9 November 1874 in Las Vegas, NM, USA,^1,2 and was baptized on 11 November 1874 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.¹ She married José Pedro CHENE, son of Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE and Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, on 13 May 1895 in Las Vegas, NM.^3,2 She died in August 1946 in Las Vegas, NM, at the age of 71.³

     Belisandro ORTEGA, was born on 4 February 1867 in Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA,^1,2 and was baptized on 4 April 1867 in Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA. Godparents: Napoleon James & Emiliana Luna de Fernandez.³ He married Juanita CHENE, daughter of Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE and Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, on 25 July 1889 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.⁴ He died on 29 October 1943 in Las Vegas, NM, USA, at the age of 76^5,2 and was buried in October 1943 at the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, USA.⁵

     Adolfo SANDOVAL, was born in 1862 in Las Gallinas, New Mexico Territory, USA.¹ He married Felonia (Felicia) (Felonisa) (Feloniz) CHENE, daughter of Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE and Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, on 18 July 1888 in Our Lady of Sorrow, Las Vegas, NM, USA.²

     (?) LOFAS married Ada "Adélaïde" (Ida) (Adele) CHENE, daughter of Pierre Léopold (Leopoldo) CHENE and Mariquita Maria Teresa LEROUX, before 1955.¹

     Joaquin Antoine Jacques LEROUX, was born on 11 October 1800 in St. Louis, Province de la Louisiane, USA,^1,2,3 and was baptized on 8 May 1801 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Province de la Louisiane, USA. Godparents: Labert (Lambert) Salé & Marie Angelique Leroux.¹ He married Juana Catarina/Catalina VALDEZ de VIGIL, daughter of Juan de Jesus VIGIL and Maria Paula VALDEZ, on 4 November 1833 in Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe), Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA.^4,3 He died on 30 July 1861 in Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA, at the age of 60.^5,6,7 and was buried on 3 August 1861 in the parish cemetery of Our Lady Of Guadalupe in Taos, New Mexico Territory.

NOTE: As the record of his burial indicates he was buried 3 of Aug it could be possible that his date of death would be 30 July 1861 instead of 30 Jun 1861 as some records indicate. Four or five days after death seems a more reasonable time period after death for his burial rather than one month and 4 days.^6,5




During his lifetime, Antonio Leroux of Taos was considered second to none as a mountain man, guide and trailblazer.
Not even second to his good friend and neighbor Kit Carson.
Leroux knew the country from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Coast, from the Mexican border north to the great Salt Lake like the back of his hand. He guided 4 military and government expeditions from Santa Fe and Albuquerque West to California, his knowledge of the vast and largely unexplored country having been gained through years of experience as a beaver trapper.
He left his name on numerous lakes and mountains in the region, and many of the trails he blazed are now followed by railroads or transcontinental highways.
The Taos landowner, more educated, cultured and refined than most of his contemporary frontiersmen, never captured the public fancy and fame of some of his contemporaries, however, and his life has largely been overlooked by historians and biographers.
This situation has been remedied by a new book, “The Blazed Trail of Antoine Leroux,” written by Forbes Parkhill of Denver and published by the Westernlore Press of Los Angeles. This 235-page book sells for $7.50 per copy, and is the first major biography of the pioneer New Mexico resident.
Joachim Antoine Leroux, for that was his full name, was not a French Canadian as has been generally believed, but was born in St. Louis in 1801 of French and Spanish, and possibly some Indian, ancestry.
He was the first of four children of Helene Josephe and Louis William Le Roux D’Esneval, usually known as William Leroux, and he was born and reared on Rue St. Charles in St. Louis.
His maternal grandmother was the former Maria Rosalia Villalpando, member of the prominent Taos family who had been captured at Taos by the Comanches in the 1700's. She lived for years among the Comanches and Pawnees before being ransomed by a French trader Jean Baptiste Sale dit Lajoie, who took her to St. Louis and married her. They were the parents of twin daughters, one of whom was Antoine Leroux’s mother.
Leroux began his life as a frontiersman in 1822 when he accompanied the Ashley-Henry expedition to the headwaters of the Missouri River.
He came to New Mexico in 1824, probably with a party headed by a St. Louis childhood friend, Antoine Robidoux and settled in Taos.
Because of his Spanish blood and kinship with the Villalpando family, Leroux was accepted at once as a member of the community. Using Taos as his headquarters he began operating as a fur trapper, north into Colorado and South along the Gila river.
Leroux was married at Taos on Nov. 4, 1833 to Juanita Catarina Vigil, the ceremony being performed by the famous Padre Antonio J. Martinez. Upon his marriage he became the principal owner of the 426,024-acre Los Luceros Land Grant, (Note: in fact by an official document the land was only 126,024 acres. Possibly a typo by the author: Howard Bryan) extending north from Taos, which had been given to the Vigils in 1742. It became known as the Antoine Leroux Land Grant.
Leroux established a large Hacienda on this grant, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life.
During the Mexican war, Leroux guided the Mormon Battalion from New Mexico to California, blazing a wagon trail along the way, and returning to Taos in June to serve on the jury which heard the trial of those charged with treason in connection with the Taos Revolt in 1847.
During the 1850's Leroux guided the Sitgreaves, Bartlett and Whipple survey expeditions between New Mexico and California. He narrowly escaped death in Arizona on the Sitgreaves expedition when he was ambushed by Indians and suffered severe arrow wounds in his head and wrist.
He died at his home in Taos on June 30, 1881 of “asthma complicated by spear wounds,” apparently the wounds he suffered 10 years before on the Sitgreaves expedition.
Mr. Parkhill writes that Leroux was accorded the rare honor of being buried in the nave of the parish church at Taos.
This church, damaged by fire several times, was torn down in 1960, Parkhill writes, at which time bulldozers uncovered the bones of several persons within the church walls, and which were assumed to be the bones of priests.
The Leroux Grant later came into the hands of a London, England, syndicate headed by Sir John Lubbock, at which time it had been reduced to 56,428 acres.
Other frontiersmen playing important roles in the book narrative include Kit Carson, uncle Dick Woolton, Lucien B. Maxwell, Ceran St. Vrain, Bill Williams, Pauline Weaver and Thomas Boogs - although the latter was never governor of New Mexico as the author states.⁸

     Juana Catarina/Catalina VALDEZ de VIGIL, was born circa 1820 in New Mexico Territory, USA.¹ She married Joaquin Antoine Jacques LEROUX, son of Jean Baptiste Benjamin Antoine LEROUX D'ESNEVAL and Helene SALE LA JOIE, on 4 November 1833 in Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe), Taos, New Mexico Territory, USA.^2,3

     Henri POISSON, was born on 24 April 1876 in MI, USA.¹ He married Marie DEMERS, daughter of Pierre DEMERS and Catherine DAGENAIS, on 2 July 1900 in Champion, MI, USA.^2,3,1

     Marie DEMERS, was born in 1880. She married Henri POISSON, son of Ovide POISSON and Flora (Florence) LEMAY, on 2 July 1900 in Champion, MI, USA.^1,2,3

     Jerry Paul CHENE, was born on 27 February 1927 in Las Vegas, NM, USA.^1,2 He married Billie Edna BROWN, daughter of Charles Richie BROWN and Margaret Helen SMYTH, on 3 September 1955 in Kentfield, CA, USA.² He died on 14 November 2003 in Sedona, AZ, USA, at the age of 76.¹

     Billie Edna BROWN, was born on 14 December 1929 in Youngstown, OH, USA.^1,2 She married Jerry Paul CHENE, son of José Pablo CHENE and Amelia Maria (Nena) CHENE, on 3 September 1955 in Kentfield, CA, USA.² She died on 31 March 1999 in San Clemente, CA, USA, at the age of 69^3,2 and was buried in April 1999 in San Diego, CA, USA.¹

     Michael Paul CHENE, was born on 7 February 1958 in La Jolla, CA, USA.¹ He married Sandra (Sandy) Sue TYRELL on 26 June 1988 in Temple City, CA, USA.¹ He married Julienne (?) on 8 August 2008.

     Jean Roger SMITH, was born in 1931 in Sudbury, ON, Canada.¹ He married Thérèse Isabelle LANTHIER circa 1961. He died on 14 April 2004 at the North York General Hospital in Toronto, ON, Canada.²

     Thérèse Isabelle LANTHIER, was born in 1943.¹ She married Jean Roger SMITH, son of Al BOURDON and Dolorès (Dolly) Lecetia SMITH, circa 1961.

     Steve Ronald SMITH, was born on 9 September 1967.¹ He married Kelly MIHAICHUK.

     Kelly MIHAICHUK married Steve Ronald SMITH, son of Jean Roger SMITH and Thérèse Isabelle LANTHIER.

     Devin Satchel MIHAICHUK-SMITH, was born.