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	Enlisted	August 15, 1861
	Discharged	September 1, 1865
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	Born	1840, Francorchamps
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	Married	Mary B. BORMANS, 12 December 1866
	Death	1918
	Children	1868 Mary; 1870 Eugenia; Mary L.; 1875 Joseph H.; Josephine; 1881 Hubert; 1883 Laura; 1885 Allis C.; 1886 Ida; 1889 Ella; 1890 Catherine
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Biography :

 

Joseph Henrigillis 1^st Missouri Cavalry, Co. B, from Depere, Wisconsin; enlisted August 15, 1861 as private; reenlisted at Little Rock on December 31, 1863, as Corporal; discharged September 1, 1865 at Little Rock, Arkansas.

As recorded by Emma Baeten (Joseph's daughter) Sept. 27, 1965^[10]:  Joseph Henrigillis born February 9, 1840 in Francorchamps, Belgium. He came to the United States with his father Hubert in 1858 when he was 18 year of age. After fighting in the Civil War for several years, he returned to De Pere, Wisconsin. On December 1st 1866 he married Mary Bernadine Borman (who was born Feb 4th, 1850 in [Nodebais]Belgium, was 15 years old when she married, was one of a family of six children, came to the United States with her parents in 1855 and was reared in Brown County, Wisconsin) and they lived on the Borman homestead for five years and then moved to De Pere township. They had fifteen children. Mary Bernadine (Borman) Henrigillis died at age 68, Dec 24, 1918 "without any gray hair". Joseph Henrigillis died May 24, 1918.  He is buried Mount Calvary Cemetary, West De Pere, WI Section F, Lot 64-D. [found in Ancestry as "Public Story", added July 2009]

He spent one year in the Soldiers' Home from November 1891 to December 1892, suffering from bronchitis and rheumatisms contacted when in Arkansas in 1865.

Sources :
J. H. Mertens : "The Second Battle"
Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin