52 Ancestors: Marie Odile Hache (1893-1933)

Staying true to giving equal time to each side of my family tree I am back on my Dad's side this week, however, I'm straying a bit and not writing about a direct ancestor but writing about the wife of a Great Great Uncle. This week's entry is about the life of Marie Odile Hache. She was the daughter-in-law of my Great Great Grandfather Aime Godin.

Marie Odile Hache, or Odile as most of the records seem to refer to her as, was born Feb 5, 1893 in Paquetville, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. She was the first born daughter of Jacques Hache and Victoire Duguay and named after her grandmother Marie Odile Duguay. Odile grew up in Haut-Paquetville with 3 older brothers (Michel, Henri, Majorique) and 1 younger sister (Josephine). As most of the families in the area were Odile's family were also farmers.

Sometime after her Grandfather's death Odile's grandmother, who she was named after, came to live with the family. By 1911 Odile's oldest brother no longer lived at home and her grandmother had passed away. Odile's father was still farming but was also doing carpentry work. Her two brothers who were still at home were working in the forests as lumbermen and her younger sister was still in school. Although the census records say she did nothing as a living she must have worked with her mother to complete all the household chores of cooking and cleaning for everyone living at home. That would have been a very busy day. The 1911 census identifies Odile's house as an apartment! This is very strange for a farming community. More likely it was one house with multiple families living in it. Odile's dwelling contained 3 families (Odile's family of 6, a young family of 4 and a school teacher). I wonder if they were actually separate living areas within a single structure or were they separate bedrooms with shared common areas?

On April 7, 1913 Marie Odile Hache married Aime Godin the son of my Great Great Grandfather Aime Godin. Odile and Aime had 3 children before 1920 (Wilfred-1914, Jacques-1915 and Diana-1917). Unfortunately Jacques would die just days before his first birthday of infant cholera. The number of children Odile had after 1919 is not a easy to determine ( records not available for 95 years), more research is required but they had at least 2 other children (Theresa and an un-named stillborn). Odile died January 17, 1933 of influenza 5 days after giving birth to a stillborn child. What a difficult childbirth that must have been, I wonder if having influenza was a cause of the stillborn birth?