DUCK CREEK, Wis.- Eugene Barlament, Sr., 87, one of the oldest and better known residents of Duck Creek and Brown county, died suddenly this morning at the home of his son, Walter, here. He had lived there for the last year. His wife preceded him in death March 22, this year.
Survivors are five sons, Walter, John, Frank and Eugene, Jr., of Duck Creek, and Louis of Green Bay. Twenty-two grandchildren also survive.
His father, Michael Barlament, came from Europe and worked at New York for John Jacob Astor, who advised him to buy land on Manhattan Island. Hearing much talk of the opportunities in Wisconsin, however, the elder Barlament moved west settling in what is now Kenosha. Here Eugene was born on Feb. 8, 1846. When he was eight years old the family moved to Green Bay, the journey being made by team. They lived at old Fort Howard where Eugene and his father worked for Major Schaler. While at the Fort he served on the volunteer fire department for six years. For a number of years he and his father were engaged in gardening, supplying fresh vegetables for the soldiers at the fort and for boats coming in.
At one time when the family lived in Oak Orchard, Oconto county, Mr Barlament engaged in the fishing industry, and for a number of years he fished out of Peaks Lake, being one of the first fishermen to use nets on the south shore. He always enjoyed relating stories of the enormous amount of sturgeon, whitefish, pickerel and perch taken from the waters in those days. He was also a great hunter and trapper and as late as the age of 81 he still paddled the canoe to the hunting grounds, and although wild game and ducks which he had seen by the thousands, became more scarce, he enjoyed his outings.
He was noted for his remarkable memory for dates and details and one conversing with him on the time when this country was a wilderness could almost live the days over with him. He was often called on to supply information on incidents which occurred in those days and could only be given by one who had lived those experiences.
He was active in school affairs of his district and served as a member of the Champ____ School board for many years. He had been a resident of Brown county for almost 75 years, sixty-seven having been spent in Duck Creek. On April 9, 1866 he married Amanda Forsythe, of Bay Settlement and the couple moved to Duck Creek.
Funeral services will be held from his late home Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and from St. Paul's Methodist church, Green Bay at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in the family lot in the Fort Howard cemetery.