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Dax Shepard

TV and Movie Actor

René LaBeau

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Dax Shepard — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • Joseph LaBeau 
  • Mother:
  • Josephte Bigras   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1751 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 18 Jan 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Monroe County, Michigan 
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Antoine Cemetery, Monroe County, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisabeth Drouillard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Feb 1789 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ste-Anne, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan 
  • Child:

  Alexis "Alexander" LaBo (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  • Notes: 

  • René LaBeau's surname is also seen as LaBo.

    René Labeau and Jean-Baptiste Solo/Soleau were killed by Indians at Sandy Creek during the Battles of the River Raisin. They are buried at St. Antoine's Cemetery just behind the present day cross.

    Some sources give René LaBeau's given name as Eatane, Achan, or Atiene. Vital records and newer published sources give it as René. It is believed that the incorrect name originated from a verbal account of the battles of the River Raisin by a Sandy Creek neighbor named Francis Gandon. He gave his account to James Godfrey, Monroe County Justice of the Peace in 1834. This was over 20 years later. He stated, “On the 18th of January Colonel Lewis came to River Raisin and drove the British and Indians from that place, and on passing this place, they shot two citizens, Eatane Labo and John Baptiste Soleau, and the only reason for doing it they said the young men asked them if they were running away from the Big Knives.”

• Sources for René LaBeau

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/27/2016).
  • ² U.S., French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954, Marriage record for René Lebeau and Elisabeth Drouillard.
  • ³ National Park Service, River Raisin National Battlefield Park: Blaze the River Raisin Heritage Trail VISA.
  • ⁴ Tanguay, L'Abbé Cyprien, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes, Cinquieme Volume, Montréal, Canada: Eusebe Senécal and Fils (1888), 214.
  • ⁵ Wing, Talcott E., ed., History of Monroe County, Michigan, New York: Munsell and Company, Publishers (1890), 66.

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