Marker is across from the Epoufette Cemetery on the shores of Lake Michigan. It reads "Epoufette has been a fishing village since 1859, when Amable Goudreau, born in Quebec around 1824, established a commercial fishery. More than a century after his death in 1882, some of his descendents continued fishing operations. Father Edward Jacker, then serving the Saint Ignace and Mackinac Island missions, visited Epoufette in August 1875. He reported a thriving fishery, with nets as far as forty miles distant, which kept two coopers busy from dawn to dusk making barrels for shipment of salted fish to distant markets".

Note: In his notes, Father Jacker mentions the death of Joseph's first wife, Mary Lavake.

Married to Mary Marie Brouillard (1826-1895) - Children are:
Mary Josephine Goudreau Lajoice (1844 - 1895)* (Buried at Gros Cap)
Joseph Goudreau (1847 - 1907)*
Abe Goudreau (1849 - 1912)*
Caroline Goudreau McLeod (1851 - 1923)*
Isabelle Elizabeth Goudreau Bellant (1857 - 1930)*
Josette Bernadetta Goudreau Keyandwy (1859 - 1912)*
Peter J. Goudreau (1870 - 1952)*

Alfred Aloysius Goudreau and wife Rose M. (Charbonneau) Goudreau s/o Joseph Goudreau

Mrs. Amable Goudreau of Epoufette passed peacefully away at her home, Tuesday a.m. at 3 o'clock. She was 71 years of age at the time of death. Mrs. Goudreau came to this vicinity a number of years ago, in a canoe from Collingwood, Ontario, Canada for the purpose of attending school and church. Here she met Amable Goudreau, who came here in 1840, and they were married, making their home here and at Epoufette since that time. Seven sons, Abraham, Alexander, Joseph, Amable, Isaac, Louis and Peter, and three daughters, Mrs. John McLeod, Mrs. Joseph Bellant and Mrs. Joseph Keyandaway are left to mourn her loss. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon from the residence of her son Joseph in this city and was largely attended. Mrs. and Mrs. Goudreau were among the first white settlers in this vicinity - they occupied a house at that time on the ground where the Rocque's Drug store now stands. The family is a very large one, consisting of 132 in all, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery in this city. The family has the sympathy of a large concourse of friends in their bereavement.

Contributed by Betty Joan Cogan
Source: Mrs. Emerson (Margaret) Smith, 1961 Amable Goudreau, pioneer of that family who came from Canada with the idea of extracting the oil from the whitefish, to be used for oil lamps. He worked for the Hudson Bay Fur Company and made a fortune in real estate in the St. Ignace area. Some of the streets of St. Ignace are named for his chilcren (Abe Street, Mary Street, Joseph Street and of course Goudreau Street)

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