Joseph Godbout (1910)

Joseph Godbout was born of Joseph Godbout and Marie Mateau. He married Marie-Blanche Pichette on 22nd August 1910 and fathered at least four children, Carmen and Marie-Blanche (1911) Godbout, and two unknown sons. He died of the Spanish flu of 1918; he had felt ill and left on the train to seek medical attention in Quebec city where he died soon after, at almost the same time as his two little sons died of it in Abitibi.

He was apparently illiterate: his daughter's marriage record states that "the wife and the witnesses could not sign" (l'épouse et les témoins n'ont su signer).