I have data that differs from other data on the same subject. An ancestor named Edwin Lee Hess, born 4 Nov. 1828 at Milton, Saratoga County, NY, at one time was in Michigan with his father Aaron Hess. I have data that Edwin married Frances Carpenter, born about 1848, they married 5 Sep. 1869 at Verona, Oneida county, NY.(this marriage is the data that I beleive is in doubt) Edwin lived in that area of Calif. until 1882 when he & wife went to San Francisco where he died in early Dec.(4-10) 1899 on a street car while going home from work. I have a Brick Wall on when and where his father died, & I wonder if his obituary in the San Francisco papers would mention his father and other family members, I have always wondered if his brother and father was out there in Calif. with Edwin? ? I also have data that he married Frances Hays on 5 Sep 1869 at Shasta Valley, Siskiyou county, Calif. I think this woman is the same Frances in either case, maybe she remarried after his death or maybe she had a marriage to a Hays before she married Hess ?. She died 11 March 1914 and is buried in the Evergreen cemetery at Siskiyou county, Calif. What city would this cemetery be in. On her headstone are the names, "George" And also "Nellie". I have no idea who they were, maybe children from Hess marriage ???? I have always wondered if Edwin went west to join in the Gold fever ? If anyone knows of these people in this e-mail please contact me at djsmith@chartermi.net (back here in Owosso, MI.) or let me know how to proceed further in this matter. Thank You.