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Desire Parbois (1861-1933) was born in France and came to the U.S. in 1888. He was a coal <br />miner and farmer. More information about the Parbois family can be found in the Fall 2016 <br />issue of the Louisville Historian, with its lead article on "Discovering the Parbois Family in <br />Louisville." (In Louisville, "Parbois" was pronounced "Par -boys.") <br />Based on a review of property transactions to which Desire Parbois was a party, he acquired <br />property from David Kerr and others in the 1890s and early 1900s. Due to the legal <br />descriptions, it is difficult to ascertain by which transaction or transactions he obtained <br />ownership of 555 County Rd., specifically. Following Parbois's death in 1933, his wife, <br />Josephine, and his adult children continued to sell off parts of the original property that he had <br />owned, including the parcel at 555 County Road. Desire Parbois's descendants conveyed the <br />property at 555 County Road in 1945 to Gabriel and Orpha Bernardon, who then conveyed it in <br />1947 to Tom Milo. <br />All of these properties in the Parbois Tracts are close to, or could even be considered to be part <br />of, the neighborhood of Louisville that was called Frenchtown, particularly in view of the <br />Parbois family having been French. (For more information about Frenchtown, see the Spring <br />2016 issue of the Louisville Historian.) <br />This excerpt from an undated Boulder County Abstract of Title map of the area from around the <br />1930s or 1940s shows an area called the Parbois Addition, plus specific numbered tracts that <br />were part of the Parbois property, although these tracts numbers do not appear to have been <br />used as the legal descriptions for the houses on those tracts. <br />2 <br />