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French Cemetery
1953
French Cemetery, showing grave of Alice Irene Shoemaker who died in January of 1862. Calvary Cemetery is in the background.
French Cemetery
1953
Tombstone of Jean Joseph Rolette, first agent of the American Fur Company at this post, in the French Cemetery.
French Cemetery
1915
French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth.
French Cemetery
1904
Graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elizabeth. Rolette died in 1842. The cemetery itself may date as early as the middle of the 17th Century.
