I’ll attempt to provide information for a few more of the children of Jude W. and Mare Catherine (Sharrai) Bourassa.

The fourth child was Louise or Louisa Bourassa. She was born in 1838 and died that same year. One genealogist says that she died and was buried at the Sugar Creek Mission near Osawatomie, Kansas. If that is true, her death may have been a result of trauma suffered by her mother, Catherine (Sharrari) Bourassa on the Trail of Death. If the baby Louisa was born on the Trail of Death it would mean she was born between September 4, 1838 and November 4, 1838. It is dangerous to speculate, but since so many mothers and their children were among the dead, some association with the Trail of Death is certainly possible.

The fifth child is Theodosia Bourassa, born in 1842 at the St. Marys Sugar Creek Mission, Linn County, Kansas. She lived only a few months and died in 1843, however, I am not able to find a record of her burial in the St. Marys Sugar Creek Mission Cemetery.