Joseph Doyon - City Cemetery - Hermann, MO
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N 38° 41.966 W 091° 26.068
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Joseph Doyon was a French fur trader.....
Waymark Code: WM135DE
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2020
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County of tombstone: Gasconade County
Location of tombstone: Shiller St., E. 9th St., & Gutenburg St., city cemetery, Hermann
Manufactured by: Western White Bronze Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Text on stone:
(North Side):
JOSEPH DOYON
Born: 15 July 1808
Died: 10 October. 1900
Aged
92 YRS. 2 MOS
(South Side):
CATHERINE A.
wife of
J. DOYON
Died
OCT. 4, 1879
Aged
68 YRS. 4 MOS.
This zinc stone has the eye inside a design on the eastern side of the monument and a female hanging in anguish on a cross on the western side.
The obelisk also has flowers circumventing in a couple of places, and a cloth draped from the top hanging down the sides...
JOSEPH DOYON
July 15, 1808
Birthplace: Quebec, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Death: October 10, 1900 (92)
Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA
Occupation: Fur Trader
Joseph Doyon came to Hermann in 1841 and in 1842 married Catherine Krecker who was born in Philadelphia May 27, 1811.
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Catherine is listed on the obelisk, even though she has her own zinc tombstone slightly north of this monument.
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