James Frederick MARCHAND^[1]

1876 - 1955  (78 years)

• Name	James Frederick MARCHAND  [2]
  Born	8 Nov 1876	Bay City, Michigan   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8D1DB1A87A2D474C83996E04F3F496266EBB
  Died	1 Mar 1955	VA Hospital, Seattle, Washington   [2]
  Person ID	I73	Ernest Benjamin Gillis
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family	Edna Elizabeth HEMMI,   b. Nov 1896, Minneapolis, Minnesota ,   d. Nov 1989, Issaquah Nursing Center, Issaquah, Washington  (Age 93 years)
  Married	5 May 1930	Everett, Washington   [2]
  Children	1. Living
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James Frederick Marchand was born in 1876 to Joseph A. and JOsephine (nee LaPontine) Marchand. James had two older sisters, Rachel and Marian, two older brothers, Franklin and Joseph, and a younger brother, Ernest. James Frederick was a Navy veteran of Spanish American War including service in the Philippine Insurrection.  His war time service was from March 1895 to May 1899, according to Veterans Affairs records (serial number 13042, VA file number XC02392302).  His son Frederick says that he enlisted very young, to get money to help his mother and family.  When his father was dying after a sawmill accident, he would sit in a chair and say "when the sun goes down I'll be going out with the boat" and shortly after that he died in the early to mid-1890's. He sailed on the steam cruiser S.S. Olympia to the Battle of the Philippines at Manilla Bay.  He worked as a cabin boy.  He was highly decorated including the Philippines campaign medal.  His medal was lost in a trunk that fell off a car or truck later. After the wars, James was a Naval reservist, where he worked as a cook, probably through World War I.  He developed the "bends" from Navy diving.  Eventually he was paid a disability pension by War Department and retired. He met Edna Hemmi in Washington State when Edna would take her father in to his shop for haircuts.  They married and had one son, Frederick James Marchand, in 1931. James went by "Frederick James" rather than the name assigned to him by the U.S. Census taker in 1880, who at the time called him "James F.". In that year, the Census report shows that his grandparents (paternal), both born in France, were living with his parents in his Bay City, Michigan home.  His father, his older brother Frank, and his grandfather, were all farmers.  His own father, Joseph, was born also in France according to the 1880 Census report. He died in the VA Hospital in Seattle, Washington, on March 1, 1955 from lung cancer, on ward 5-west.  In 1974-1981, his grandson Frederick James worked at that hospital in administration, including on the very ward that James passed away on. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S92] Marchand GEDCOM 2009, compiled by Frederick J Marchand. [S2] Jim Marchand Gillis GEDCOM, compiled by F. J. Marchand [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE\,]. [S44] IGI Batch MC518251 seriel sheet 5404; NGS Library 24 Feb 2001.