Ferdinand Breault Family

Left to Right, Front Row: Daughter Doris, Louise and Ferdinand Breault. Back Row: Melvin,
Lucille, Tom, and Mae.

Hormidas Breault came to Somerset from Prairie du Chien, Canada,
about 1870. He married Armind Germain in 1873. Eleven children
were born in this family. They settled on the farm now occupied by
Melvin Breault. He built one of the first barns at a cost of $400,
which was a big debt and a big risk in those days.
Ferdinand Breault, son of Hormidas and Armine Germain Breault,
was born in Somerset on June 3, 1879, and had a twin sister, Mary.
He married Louise Vanasse on May 17, 1904. He farmed both the
Breault and Vanasse farms. Nine children were born in this family:
Simon, Marcel, Arsene and Julius died in early childhood. Lucille
(Mrs. Wilbur Martinsen, Melvin, Mae (Mrs. Leonard Murphy), Doris
(Mrs. Vic Snowden), Thomas Breault. There are eleven grandchildren:
Lucille, daughters Colleen and Ann Mary; Melvin (married Frances
Kelly): sons Gary, Wayne, Stephen; Mae: sons Michael and Leonard,
daughters Patricia, Jane, Kathleen; Thomas (married Phyllis Graff):
daughter Mary Jo.

Hormidas Breault Family
Left to Right, Back Row: Lisa (Mrs. Prudent Gadeout), Ferdinand,
Mary (Mrs. Tom Proier), Joe, Rose (Mrs. Ed Montbriand), Henry.
Front Row: Donald, Mrs. Breault, Dillema (Mrs. Ray Murphy), Annie
(Mrs. Jack Flynn), Hormidus Breault, Francis.