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Charles Wesley HESS (mother Elizabeth Grayliss Hess) (1841-1889) |
Charles Wesley HESS (mother Elizabeth Grayless Hess)
Charles married Ann Matilda LANE. (Ann Matilda LANE was born on Oct 10, 1842, died on Jul 10, 1909 in Franklin Co., OH, USA and was buried on Jul 12, 1909 in Union Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin Co, OH, USA.) |
Noted
events
Elizabeth Grayless Hess died
in 1851 when Charles was 10 years old.
John Moses Hess (the father) died in 1856 and it is unclear from the US Census
if all four
children went to live with their, then married, step-brother Thomas Moore
Hess and
his wife Ann Amanda Kinnear Hess OR if only James lived with them and
the youngest 3 children went to live with a neighbor, the Andersons.
On the 1860
Ohio Census, (at age 21), the value of Charles Wesley Hess's real estate was
valued at $3,500,
which would have been inherited from their father John M. (Moses) Hess.
The 1870 Census
shows Charles 'Wesley' Hess's occupation as 'Farmer' and
his real estate valued at $12,600 and value of personal estate at $2,600.
(Quite a sum for 1870!)
Gravestone Monument
Union Cemetery ~ Columbus, Ohio
In the Centennial Biographical
History of The City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio of 1901
this was written of Charles Hess:
Charles Wesley
Hess, the second child of his father's third marriage, spent his youth in
the usual manner of boys of the
period, working in the fields through the summer months and pursuing his education
in the public schools in the
winter seasons. He married Miss Ann M. Lane and unto them were born 4 children:
William G., Charles R., Florence L.
and Ida.
Charles Wesley
Hess died November 9, 1889, making the third brother to die within a period
of nine months. His widow
is a resident of Columbus.
More information gathered:
Since finding
the (above quoted) Centennial History book written in 1901, I have acquired
a copy
of 'History of Balser Hess 1747-1806 and Descendants' compiled by
Frank E. Hess of Goshen, Indiana in 1950.
From the Hess book, a more comprehensive history of the Hess family is understood
and
it serves to correct some information that was given in the Centennial History
book.
From the Frank E. Hess book:
Charles Wesley
Hess was born November 14, 1841 and married October 1, 1863 to Ann Matilda
Lane, daughter of William
and Lenah Lane of Perry Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
He lived most of his life in the city of Columbus, Ohio where he conducted a real estate business and owned income property.
In the fall of
1889 he fell ill of typhoid fever and died November 9, 1889 at his home on
Dennison Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
He lacked just five days of reaching the age of forty-eight years. He was
the third son of John Moses Hess to die in the year
of 1889, Thomas and James preceding him. His widow lived twenty years and
died at her Columbus, Ohio home, July 9, 1909
and both are buried in Union Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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