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Comp. D, 4th Missouri Cavalry Volunteers |
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Enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant February 21, 1862 St Louis MO; promoted 1st Lieutenant March 4, 1863; promoted Captain April 19, 1864; commissioned Major on July 8, 1865 |
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Biography :
Edward Louis De Grendele was born at Dixmude May 24th 1821, West Flanders. He
emigrated with Pierre Dirckx, his brother in law who was back in Belgium from
Missouri. Pierre sister, Marie Sylvia, was married to Edward De Grendele. One
child Henry Edward born on July 15th 1849 but his wife died shortly after, on
November 2, 1849.
On sept 13, 1850 Eduard De Grendele immigrated to the US to settle in Taos, Missouri, a German colony where Father Helias D'Huddeghem a Belgian, was pastor. He debarked on April 4, 1851 in New Orleans and went to Taos, Cole Co., where Pierre Dirckx was already settled since 1848.
He married Catherina Huffmeyer, from Alsace, France, on December 28, 1852 at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Taos, Cole Co. Missouri. After the war I find him in the 1870 census at Carondelet(now Saint Louis), Saint Louis County, Missouri with his wife and three children: a son Ignatius Edward, born 26 November 1853 and two girls, Johana born about 1858 and Mary born about 1869. I also find his first child Henry, born Belgium, with Peter Dircks family, at Liberty twp, Cole Co. in 1870.
En was admitted in the Home on August 16, 1884, suffering of spasmodic muscular contractions contacted during service, occupation Vet. Surgeon. He died at Sappington, Missouri, while on furlough, from "Phtisis Pulmonalis" (tuberculosis) on May 21, 1885. His death records listed him as divorced, and being buried Denny Road at Sappington. It’s now the St. Lucas cemetery[3] and E.L. Degrendele is buried Block 1 Section SE ¼ Lot 52 grave 7.
It was only three years after his death, in November 1888, that his commission as Major was confirmed.
Sources :
Central Branch of the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton, Ohio
