This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hess Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wV.2ADI/1521.4.1 Message Board Post: This is the right Hess Family but the mother & father - I do not know about. I tend to lean towards John Hess & Mary?? out of Blount Co, TN. Also the reason most people say that Samuel & Solomon was born in Cario, IL is because of a Goodspeed book. I think they probably came from TN as most of the other families in the area area also associated with the Hess out of TN & also with Solomon & Samuel. Solomon - son of Samuel supposedly died around 1865. I need to find Solomon & Sarah in the 1850 & 1860 census but so far have not been able to. Sarah married Solomon's brother Riley Hess sometime after 1863. She died around 1867 in Jackson Co. This is what I have been told by numerous sources but none have proof. In order for me to satisfy myself - I need to find them with their family.