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  Vuagniaux Family  

The Vuagniaux family is my mother’s side of the family. The name is pronounced "Wine-u or Wine-yo". The Vuagniaux’s are of Swiss ancestry but lived near the French border, and north of Lausanne. They came from a town called Moudon. My great grandfather, Frank Vuagniaux, married a girl named Adele Pahud, at Greenville Illinois, on valentines day in the year 1866. Adele and her family were from Ripley (Jackson County) in Virginia. This county is now part of West Virginia. The Pahud's had come to this country from Switzerland from the town of Bioley-Magnoux,  a couple of miles north west of  Moudon, both of which are north of Lausanne heading toward Yverdon

                                               

The map is part of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland about 7 miles S.E. of Yverdon in the western part of the country

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Part of the family still live in Illinois, across the river from St. Louis, Missouri. My great grandparents came from this county shortly after the end of the Civil War. Many Vuagniaux's still live in this area and they pronounce the name "Vaughn-u" .

At the end of the year 2001, I found a man in Switzerland with the surname Vuagniaux and who lives near Moudon,  and he was able to trace back to the parents of  Jean Pierre Vuagniaux, and that of his bride at their wedding in 1829. So I was able to move back one more generation in the family line of Vuagniaux's. Jean Pierre's father was Jean Francois Vuagniaux and his mother was Jeanne Marie Jordannz.

JEAN PIERRE (JOHN PETER) VUAGNIAUX

Name Remarks
Jean Pierre Vuagniaux Born in 1799 at Moudon Switzerland died in 1865 at age 66.
Louise Marguerite Cherpillod (name of Cherpillod does not appear in any of my Mothers notes but on the birth affidavit of Frank #2 obtained in 1907 from Swiss Govt. Born in 1808 and died in 1889.  Louise and Frank married in 1829
Suzette Vuagniaux died in Switzerland in 1905
Marguerite " Died in 1907 in Council Bluffs, IA. Married to a man named Motlaz. She had a son and three daughters. Her son was Justice of the Peace in Co. B. One daughter married a man named Cooper who was a Judge in Co. B. for many years. My mother says the Judge lived about three blocks from their house.
Frank #1 "  died as an infant in Switzerland. 
Frank #2 "   My great grandfather, born 20 Jul 1835 in Moudon Switzerland and died 7 Mar 1916 in Co. B.
Daniel " Supposedly died quite young in Switzerland.
Sylvia " Died in 1903 in Switzerland
Jenny " Born about 1850 and died about 1889 in Switzerland.
Louise and John were married in 1829 and were of the Catholic faith. In 1847 John and his son Frank fought in the Catholic Protestant War and several of the Vuagniaux’s were supposedly killed. Frank would have only been 12 years old at the time, so do not know if all the facts are correct? After the war the families renounced the Catholic faith and became Protestants and have remained so to this day. Frank supposedly came alone to this country in 1855 and settled in Greenville, Bond County Illinois. At some later time, his sister Marguerite came to this country and lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa while her brother Frank was living there.

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