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Henry Beaumont “Harry” Bacon Bissell

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Henry Beaumont “Harry” Bacon Bissell

Birth
Mine La Motte, Madison County, Missouri, USA
Death
3 Apr 1932 (aged 55)
Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
Burial
Sancti Spíritus, Municipio de Sancti Spíritus, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba Add to Map
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Henry "Harry" Beaumont Bacon was the first of five children born to Allen Henry & Mary Louise Bissell Bacon in Mine LaMont, Madison County, Missouri in October 1876. He had four siblings, Laura L., Allen Henry, Jr., Eugene Orr, Elizabeth W. Bacon.
Harry entered the military as a volunteer engineer in 1898 and was sent to Cuba. While there he married Rosa Maria Lemus y Vega with whom he had a son Enrique and a daughter Laura E. who married Pedro Roberto Dorrago. Laura, Pedro and their twelve year old son, Alexander Dorrego Bacon, came to by boat from Havana to Key West, Florida in July of 1954, was lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and settled in San Francisco, California. Alexander became a naturalized U. S. Citizen in 1967.
Harry B. Bacon remained a resident of Cuba for 34 years, died in Tuinucu, Santi- Spiritus, and was buried at Cementerio Municipal de Sancti Spititus. His Cuban death certificate lists him as "Harry Beaumont Bacon Bissell" using the traditional Spanish naming order of Given name, father's surname followed by mother's surname.
Henry "Harry" Beaumont Bacon was the first of five children born to Allen Henry & Mary Louise Bissell Bacon in Mine LaMont, Madison County, Missouri in October 1876. He had four siblings, Laura L., Allen Henry, Jr., Eugene Orr, Elizabeth W. Bacon.
Harry entered the military as a volunteer engineer in 1898 and was sent to Cuba. While there he married Rosa Maria Lemus y Vega with whom he had a son Enrique and a daughter Laura E. who married Pedro Roberto Dorrago. Laura, Pedro and their twelve year old son, Alexander Dorrego Bacon, came to by boat from Havana to Key West, Florida in July of 1954, was lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and settled in San Francisco, California. Alexander became a naturalized U. S. Citizen in 1967.
Harry B. Bacon remained a resident of Cuba for 34 years, died in Tuinucu, Santi- Spiritus, and was buried at Cementerio Municipal de Sancti Spititus. His Cuban death certificate lists him as "Harry Beaumont Bacon Bissell" using the traditional Spanish naming order of Given name, father's surname followed by mother's surname.


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