Henry DEANS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1860, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Township 1 Range 9, St Clair, Illinois

• Military Service, 1865, Illinois, USA. Veteran of the U.S. Civil War, who served with Company C, 149th Illinois Infantry. Member of the Hecker Post #443, Grand Army of the Republic.
Enlisted 23 January 1865 Private Muster 7 February 1865 Illinois C Company 149th Infantry Mustered out 27 January 1866 Dalton Union Union soldier Residence Belleville Illinois

• Census, 1870, St Clair, Illinois, USA. Coal miner aged 25 with wife Emilie and sons Robert and Job

• Census, 1880, St Clair, Illinois, USA. Coal Miner with wife Amelia and sons Robert Joseph and Henry and daughters Emma and Elizabeth

• Census, 1900, Randolph, Illinois, USA. Superintendant coal mine with wife Amelia and sons Job aged 30, James C aged 15 and daughter Martha aged 18

• Census, 1910, St Clair, Illinois, USA. Miner with wife Amelia and son Joseph and daughter Martha

Henry married Amelia JEFFS on 10 Oct 1864 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. (Amelia JEFFS was born on 10 May 1848 in Warwickshire, England and died in 1919 in St Clair, Illinois, USA.)