This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEPLEY, HESS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2772 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the KEPLEY and HESS families starting with George W KEPLEY born TN Sept 1877. His parents Asa and Eliza KEPLEY were also born in TN.They lived in Sumner County. By 1894 George W. KEPLEY was living in Texas. He married Rosa M HESS in Ellis Texas on June 26, 1894 but she was born in TN and her parents were born in TN so perhaps they met there. I know nothing of Rosa's parents or heritage. George and Rosa were my great grandparents. There is a strong tradition in this Kepley family that they were mostly native american esp George W. Kepley. There is no documentation I can find, but then I was told by my Aunt they farmed and lived as white and the story goes they did not want to be known as indian to the government.