Teacher Ethel Matilda Matthieu was born in April of 1880 at Farmington, Maine, the daughter of Joseph W. Mathieu and Emma Mary Matthieu, born in St. Francois, Beauce, Quebec, and St. Claire, Dorchester, Quebec respectively. Her parents married at Farmington, Maine on 16 May 1872. Ethels paternal grandparents were Jean and Anathalie (Fortin) Mathieu. Ethel married Wilfred Auguste Caron at Farmington, Maine, on 6 September 1910. Wilfred was born about 1878 in Canada, the son of Auguste and Celina (Laurendeau) Caron. Ethel and Wilfred lived at Rumford, Maine, where Wilfred was a barber and later a manufacturer. By the time of the 1930 Census, Ethel, after raising at least one child, was again teaching. Ethels older brother Albert A. Mathieu graduated from Holy Cross at Worcester, Massachusetts, and became an attorney and judge at Waterville, Maine. It would be interesting to know how closely Ethel and Alfred were related to Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, the first French Canadian settler at Waterville, Maine. Jean-Baptiste had migrated from Quebec down the Indian Trail, later called the Kennebec Road or the Canada Road. He would stay at a place as long as there was work for him and then move farther south. In the early 1820s, he had worked his way to Shirley, Maine, where he started a business of supplying logging camps with provisions. In 1827 he moved his operation to Waterville.
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