Matthew LAITURE

Matthew was born in 1866 in Finland. Matthew is no longer alive.

General Notes
- After Richard Heyland's death, she married Matt Laiture, August 8, 1918. Matt could speak no English and was 52 years old. Matt was a bachelor, hunter and trapper from Finland. He built a log cabin several miles north of the homestead where Mary Ellen lived. The cabin was built without a single nail. The logs were all put together with wooden pegs. The door was on wooden hinges made from lumber hewn by axe, as was the floor, wooden bedstead and table. Matt had tanned furs sewn together as blankets on the bed. Neither Matt nor Mary Ellen wanted to leave their own homes so after they married they never lived together for any length of time.
  
  Mary Ellen was 63 when she married Matt, her fifth and final husband. Her daughter Freda made her wedding dress and stood up for her at the wedding along with grandma Flaska. Rev. Artemas Seller married the couple.
  
  Emilia Flaska Warak said, "Matt left Mary Ellen some time later, Mary Ellen thinking the Finns had lured him away. She being thoughtful and kind used to invite Finnish families to visit, just to make Matt feel more at home. They always remained friends. He would stop at her house to or from a trip to the store or P.O. and she'd give him a good meal or lunch and walk part way home with him. She liked and missed him but would not humiliate herself by asking him to come back. He died at Bragges and Mary Ellen sent Ed Watson and Colin Edie to Bragges to bring his belongings to her. She sold them and his farm and sent the money to his children." Years later one of Mary Ellen's grandchildren asked if she would ever get married again. Her reply was, "No! The darn things just
  die anyway." Mary Ellen had married and buried her last four husbands in a period of eleven years. She probably felt it was enough heartache to last anyone a lifetime.

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Matthew LAITURE

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