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1 June 1860: Illinois, Kankakee County,
St. Ann (1860 census, roll 192, page 290, line 28; age 17; Laborer on farm; b. in Canada) |
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22 August 1862: Illinois, Hancock County,
St. Mary Twp (Ref.: Report of Adj. Gen., State of Illinois, 1867) |
| Since I have found only two or three Hebert households in Kankakee County in that era, it seems likely that Louis Hebert was a son or nephew of Jean Baptiste Hebert who had left home (at least for the farming season) before the census of 1860. In June 1860, Louis Hebert was working as a laborer for a farmer in St. Ann who had two young daughters (ages 8 and 10) but no children who could help him in the fields. |
| Private Louis Hebert and Private Xavier Arpin were mustered into Company D of the 76th Illinois Infantry on the same day, 22 August 1862, and served together until the day that Louis died at Vicksburg, 24 June 1863. Even if there had been no previous connection, the Hebert and Arpin families would have become friends while their sons were fighting side by side on the battlefields of the South. The Hebert family would have looked to Xavier to learn the details of the death of Louis. Thus, the stage was set for the meeting, and eventual marriage, of Euducide Hebert [629] and Edmond Arpin. |