Okay Kathy you have managed to stump me on this one. I think from the info in the obit that this is the son of Andrew J. Lessley son of the elder Shelton Lessley (1833-1910) and his first wife Surrilda Pyle. I identified Andrew J. Lessley in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census records. I show that he married a Mattie E. (at least that is what the name looked like in the census record) about 1880. I have never identified any children from this marriage. The 1890 census of course was destroyed and Andrew J. Lessley died on May 21, 1893 (no obit on him) and is buried in the Old Higbee Cemetery. I am guessing that his widow and children must have moved away before the 1900 census. Wow a whole other branch of the family to investigate. Carole Friday, 17 Jan 1919, Vol 32, No 39--MAY LESSLEY DIES IN FRANCE--Former Higbee Boy Succumbs to Wounds Received in Argonne Forest Battle--The many Higbee friends of Mrs. Nettie Lessley, formerly of this place, will be grieved to learn of the death of her son, May Gordon Lessley, which occurred in France on November 16th, from wounds received in the Argonne battle on September 28.  He was a member of Co. H. 136th (138th?) St. Louis Infantry, which saw some of the hardest fighting of the war. Young Lessley was the son of the late A. J. ("Andy") Lessley and was born at the old home place here, now owned by W. W. Brundege, and will be remembered by our older citizens as a very precocious youngster