Emma was Walter’s second wife, marrying ca 1922. She was a widow with daughters Alice and Mildred from a previous marriage. ®7552On 1 April 1930 Emma, 45, born ca 1885 in Wisconsin had been married to her first husband at age 18. Both her parents were born in South Dakota. Her second husband, Walter Boutin, 61, and she had 4 daughters, Lois, 7, Gene, 4 years and 4 months, Janet, 2 years and 7 months and Maxine (Wanda), age 1, ®7555 so she and Walter had married by 1922. All four daughters and both Walter’s parents were born in Wisconsin. ®7555 At the time of the census on 1 April 1930 they had just been abandoned by Walter. Emma’s mother was Estelle Camp. Emma Boutin raised four daughter as a single mom in Bayfield during the Great Depression. They lived near the fish hatchery in a house they rented for $3 in the Town of Bayfield, Wisconsin. One of Emma’s many jobs was hoeing fields at Erickson’s orchard, which she walked to every morning. The Jim Erickson’s family housed and fed Emma and the four girls during the Depression. ®7568
In 1935 he had lived in Duluth, Minnesota. He had a seventh grade education. Marie was his divorced daughter and unemployed. On 1 April 1940 Walter Boutin, 72, a widowed intermittent laborer on a water project, born in Wisconsin, lived in a house he owned worth $500 at 1020 Savage Road, Van Buren, Michigan with Marie Mc Intyre, 42. ®7556