Marie Blanche Poirier was born on January 19, 1890, and married Charles Joseph Gaudet, who was born on April 20, 1891, on April 13, 1915. Their first child was born in 1916, their last in 1934. In that 18-year span nine of them died dreadful deaths, mostly of tuberculosis. Somehow, in this morass of disease and death five children survived and reached old age. I knew them all because they were my immediate family as I grew up. One of them, Frances, was my mother. Mary Frances, (1918 – 2014 Annie May (1923 – 2010) John Joseph (1925 – 1997) Mary Susan 1928 – 2020 Joseph Gerard 1932 – 1999…