Hi, Terri: Is this your Peter Hess? Series: M593 Roll: 1333 Page: 566 1870 - Bloserville P.O., West Pennsboro Twp., Cumberland Co., PA - 8/11/1870 Wise, John - 35 - m - w - huckster - $---/340 - PA --- Rebecca - 67 - f - w - keeping house - $1,500/--- - PA Hess, Peter - 32 - m - w - farm laborer - $---/375 - PA --- H.A. - 39 - f - w - keeping house - PA The household shown before the above listing is that of Fred & Isablle Goodhart; the household following the Wise/Hess listing is that of William & Harriet Bishop. Good luck with your search! Debra On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: HESS, GOODHART, BISHOP > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JaB.2ACE/3510 > > Message Board Post: > > Our Hess family moved into Cumberland County PA after 1840. They > came from Berks County, PA. Jacob and Mary had 8 children. I am > directly descended from Mary Ann Hess b. 6 May 1830 who married > John Benjamin Hocker. I have their descendents. I'm currently > trying to put the siblings of Mary Ann and their families together > and this is what I have. > David Hess born 1825, Lydia Hess born 1827, Jacob Hess b. OCt 1828 > married Eliza?. Anna Elizabeth Hess b. 10 Mar 1832 married Cyrus > Anson Goodhart. > Thomas Hess b. 1836 married Agnes Drucilla Goodhart. Peter Hess b. > 1839 (can't find him after 1860) and finally Margaret b. 7 Jan 1841 > married Lewis Bishop. > Most of these children seemed to have stayed in Cumberland and had > many children. Mostly girls. > I would love to know if their are Goodhart and Bishop descendents > that may have family info to share or pictures from the late 19th > and early 20th century's. > > Jacob Hess' ancestry is well documented but who is his wife Mary? > She could possibly be Polly Bilfeld but there is another dead > end. Polly was the most common nickname for Mary. And where did > their son Peter go after 1860? There was a war about to take place. > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me > directly at [email protected] > Terri Ryker Lloyd > > > ==== PACUMBER Mailing List ==== > Visit the USGenWeb PA Archives page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >