Rose-Éva Marquis was born October 11, 1890, in Waterloo Township, County Shefford, Québec, Canada, the daughter of Isaïe Marquis and Philomène Gibeault. She was baptized the following day at Saint-Bernardin Church in Waterloo, where her godparents were her uncle, François-Xavier Marquis, and his wife, Adèle Roussel. The baby was christened "Arzélia-Éva," apparently in part to honor her mother's mother who had died the year before — though someone got her grandmother's name wrong: it was Arséna, not Arzélia. Whatever the case, soon after this, for reasons unknown, the baby's name was changed to "Rose-Éva," though she seems to have most often gone by just "Éva."

Her parents were natives of the Eastern Townships of Québec and had married at Sainte-Pudentienne Church in Roxton Pond, County Shefford, in February 1884. Her father was a laborer, and her mother ran the household. Their first son was born in Roxton Pond in May 1885, followed by a second son born there in February 1887, while their third son was born in nearby Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford in December 1888. Éva was the youngest of the family, and the only daughter.

The May 1891 census for Waterloo Township included the household of Isaïe and Philomène, ages 28 and 27, and their four children: Hormidas, age 6; Stanislas, age 4; Ovila, age 2; and Rose-Éva, age 8 months. The census indicated that Isaïe was a "journalier," that is, a journeyman, and that Philomène could read and write.

In December 1892, three hundred miles away in Douglas, Massachusetts, Isaïe Marquis died of typhoid fever. He had been present in Waterloo at the baptism of his daughter in October 1890 and at the census of May 1891; it is unclear how long he had been in Douglas or if any of his family had accompanied him there. He was 29 years old and working as a wheelwright at the time of his death. According to the municipal register, Isaïe was buried in Douglas.

In June 1893 at Saint-Cajetan Church in Mansonville, County Brome — again in the Eastern Townships of Québec —, Philomène Gibeault, age 29, married Joseph Thibault, age 40, a twice-widowed farmer with eleven children of his own. At the time of their marriage, both Joseph and Philomène resided in Mansonville, a village in the township of Potton, on the Québec-Vermont border. Their first daughter, Alma Thibault, was born in May 1894 in Shefford-Ouest, and soon after this, the family immigrated to the United States. At the time, Philomène's sister, Lydia Gibeault, had been living in Fall River, Massachusetts, with her husband, Alexis Fortier, and their children. Joseph and Philomène's second daughter, Marie-Anna Thibault, was born in Fall River in August 1896.

In January 1898, Lydia Gibeault died in Fall River of pulmonary tuberculosis; she was 28 years old. Nine months later, that is, in early September 1898, both Philomène Gibeault and her infant daughter, Marie-Anna Thibault, died in nearby New Bedford, Massachusetts: Philomène on September 2, of pulmonary tuberculosis, and Marie-Anna on September 9, of meningitis. Marie-Anna had turned two the previous month, and Philomène was one day shy of her thirty-fifth birthday. According to the municipal register, mother and daughter were buried in the "French" cemetery in New Bedford.

Following the deaths of their mother and sister, at least two of the Marquis children were sent to live with relatives in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. At the June 1900 federal census, middle brother Stanislas — identified as Dennis T. Marquis —, age 13, was living in East Concord with the family of his uncle, Félix Gibeault, Jr., a section hand for the Boston and Maine Railroad. Residing on the same block were grandfather, Félix Gibeault, Sr.; uncle and aunt, Delvini "Denis" Gibeault and Éva Gauthier and their children; and uncle, Alfred "Fred" Gibeault. The census reported that Dennis T. Marquis had immigrated to the United States in 1894, that he was attending school, and that he could read, write, and speak English.

That same census reported that nine-year-old Éva R. Marquis was living in East Concord at the home of Charles Renaud, a Boston and Maine Railroad section hand whose wife, Marguerite Gibeault, was Éva's aunt. The census indicated that Éva had immigrated to the United States in 1894 and was attending school, and that she could read, write, and speak English. The Renaud household included Charles and Marguerite's three young children: Phébée, Ovila, and Amos, ages six years, four years, and twenty-one months, respectively.

The whereabouts of Éva's other brothers during this period are currently unknown. By 1908, twenty-three-year-old Hormidas, now called Armadase Marquis, had settled in Newport, Vermont, and was working for the railroad; he wed the following year and went on to have two daughters and a son. Meanwhile, Ovila became Oliver Marquis, and at the 1910 census, aged twenty-two years, he was working as a coachman in Concord; after this, he disappears from historical view.

The 1903 Concord annual report reveals that during the academic year ending in June 1902, eleven-year-old Éva Marquis was enrolled at the Dewey School on Liberty Street and that she was on the school district's Roll of Honor.

On February 6, 1909, in the neighboring village of Penacook, Rose-Éva Marquis married Calvin Joseph Laflamme, son of French-Canadian immigrants Pierre Laflamme and Mélina Lescadre. According to the marriage intention filed with the Concord city clerk, the bride and groom were 18 years old, both were residents of Concord, and it was the first marriage for each of them. It also reported that Calvin was a native of Belmont, New Hampshire, and worked as a mill operative, and that Éva worked as a housekeeper. The marriage service was performed by Protestant minister William A. W. Hardy.

The municipal record further reported, though less accurately, that Éva was a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts; that her father was "Dennis Marquis," a blacksmith and native of Douglas, Massachusetts, who lived in Canada; and that her mother was "Phoebe Gebeault," a native of Canada who lived in New Bedford. It also reported that Calvin's parents were "Albert Laflam" and "Melena Lascot."

Three weeks following this, on March 1, 1909, at Immaculate Conception Church on Bonney Street in Penacook, Éva and Calvin were joined in the sacrament of holy matrimony. The parish register reported that Calvin was the son of "Peter La Flamme and Melina Lescarte," while Éva was the daughter of "Dennis Marquis and Phoebe Gebeault." Witnesses for the couple were husband and wife, David Rhéaume and Olivine Daniels.

The April 1910 census of Penacook included Calvin and Eva Laflamme and their three-month-old son, Lawrence, born in January 1910, living at 9 Merrimack Street. The census reported that Mrs. Laflamme was a native of French Canada, that her parents were likewise natives of French Canada, and that she had immigrated to the United States in 1891. Both she and her husband rented their home, and they both could speak, write, and read English. It also reported that Calvin was working at a local cotton mill.

A second son, Henry, was born in October 1911, also in Penacook.

In November 1912, Éva contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, and nine months later, that is, on July 15, 1913, she died at her residence on Crescent Street in the nearby town of Boscawen. The wife and mother of two was 22 years and nine months old.

The state death record gives her name as "Rose E. Laflamme," stating that she was a native of Canada, born October 10, 1890, and that her father, "Dennis," was a blacksmith, also from Canada; her mother's name and birth information were omitted entirely. Éva had been living on Crescent Street for three months, which was also where her husband's parents lived (N.B., her father-in-law had died just six days earlier of a cerebral hemorrhage). If a requiem Mass occurred, it was celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial took place two days later, July 17, 1913, in the Laflamme family lot at Penacook Calvary Cemetery. Fifield & Hubbard were in charge of arrangements.

(Composed March 2022, Concord, New Hampshire)

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Original biographical information as provided by Mr. Jim Bennett, who created this memorial:

Her parents were Dennis Marquis (born in Douglass MA, a blacksmith) and Phoebee Gibeault (or Gebeault, born in Canada). She came to the US in 1894 and lived in the family household of Charles Reno in Concord NH. She married Calvin LaFlamme by civil procedure on Feb. 6, 1909 in Penacook NH and then by Catholic rites in Immaculate Conception Church, in Concord, NH, on March 1, 1909. She worked as a housewife. She and Calvin had two children, Lawrence Joseph and Henry Francis LaFlamme. After a 9-month illness of pulmonary tuberculosis, Rose died at the age of 22 on July 15, 1913. Her last residence (having lived there only three months) was on Crescent Street, Boscawen NH, as reported by physician Arthur J. Rowe MD of Penacook NH. On July 17, 1913 she was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Penacook NH. The death certificate was issued on Aug. 12, 1913 by Harry W. Carter, State clerk of Boscawen NH.