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Joseph GILSOUL |
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Comp. , 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery |
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September 14, 1864 |
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June 24, 1865 | |
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1845, Crehen or 12 September 1849, Créhen, Liege Belgium |
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Maggie BUCKLEY, August 15,
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1916 or Faribault, Mn, about 1929 |
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1868 : Mary; 1870 : Louis; 1872 : Nellie; 1874 : Anton |
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Biography:
Joseph Gilsoul born
at Crehen near Liege in Belgium, 1843. His parents Hubert Gilsoul and Marie
Tilman. The family sailed into the port of New York on the ship F. Gebhard
on May 10, 1858. The father was born on January 11, 1795 at Thisnes, also near
Liege. He stated being 58 y.o. in the ship manifest but was older. At 63 years,
it was a very old age to go to the New World to begin a new life. With him, his
wife Marie Catherine born 1804 and and 4 of his 5 remainging childs (3 other
ones were dead in Belgium at respectively 2, 8 and 14 y.o.): Marie Therese, 22
y.o. (Marie Thérèse Joséphine born 1835); Stephanie, 20 y.o (Stéphanie Joseph
born 1837); Joseph, 13 y.o. (François Joseph born 1843); Louis 9 y.o. (Jean
Louis born 1848). The eldest girl, Marie Angélique, was married in 1856 in
Belgium at Crehen and remained in Belgium.
No trace of them after their arrival. The 1860 census doesn't list that family, nor the following ones. The only Gilsoul found in later days is (François) Joseph Gilsoul. The only hint they stayed in America is the 1880 census, where Joseph Gilsoul is listed twice. One with his family and one with his mother, 75 y.o. in Polk County, Minnesota. She was living with Florentine Lebrun family, also from Belgium.
Following the 1870 census, Joseph Gilsoul settled in Faribault, Shieldsville township, Rice County, Minnesota. He married 3 times. First with Margaret Buckley (in 1865) and with her widow sister (in 1870) Margaret (Savage) Buckley. He married a third time with Eugenie Langevin, from Canada, in 1917.
He died on march 16, 1929 and is buried in Pine Grove cemetery, Cass lake, Cass county, Minnesota.
Sources :
J. H. Mertens : "The Second Battle"
Lacourt : Immigrants Belges
