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Garrett, Henry

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Garrett, Henry

August 20, 2026

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Henry Gemoets, a 21-year-old Belgian immigrant newly arrived in El Paso, drowned in the Rio Grande shortly after 5 p.m. on July 8, 1893, while bathing under the railroad bridge between El Paso and Juarez with his uncle, F. L. Gemoets, and his cousin Alfred Veuillez. He was last seen playing with a…

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