HILLEGAS OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HILLEGAS, Joseph 1812 - 1886

Clinton MO Feb 1886 - Died, in East Osage township, January 30, 1886, Judge 
Joseph Hillegas, aged 73 years, 7 months and 19 days. Judge Hillegas was one of 
the earliest settlers of this section, having come to Henry County in the fall of 
'56. He entered and purchased some 600 acres of land, improving about 300 acres 
and which he resided at the time of his death. Judge Hillegas has been a man of 
considerable wealth and influence, having been appointed one of the county 
judges in 1865, he was afterward elected and served six years in succession in 
that capacity. He was an influential member of the M. E. Church. A bereaved wife, 
four sons and two daughters, mourn his loss. After the funeral, his remains were 
interred in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, which is located in the center of the prairie 
that bears his name.

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