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Elias parents were
Father: Bolser Hess 1786-1856.
Mother: Sarah Immel 1792-1858.
SOURCE: U.S. Sons of the American Revolution

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Elias and Lucinda (Wright) Hess, the former of whom was born in Franklin county, Ohio, March 12, 1812, and died October 19, 1894, aged eighty - two years seven months and nine days ; the latter was born in Stark county of that state, and died July 4, 1880, aged sixty - three years five months and twenty - four days. The father came to Walnut township, Marshall county, Indiana, in 1868, and purchased three hundred and twenty acres of timber land, of which he cleared about one hundred and ten acres and made many improvements thereon. He later sold that farm and bought two hundred and ninety - six acres in Greene township, the year of the purchase being 1888, and in the following year he removed to near Springfield, Missouri, there spending the remainder of his life and dying in his eighty - third year. Mrs. Hess died in Marshall county. They were married in this county, and of their fourteen children nine are now living : Belinda, Levi, Isaiah, Jasper N., Enoch W., Susannah (the wife of Dr. Sutton), Erastus, Lewis J. and Henry. The brother, Ezra, was also a soldier during the Civil war, serving in the Twenty - first Indiana Battery, and he lost his life near Winchester, on Sand Mountain, Tennessee, being but twenty - eight years of age at the time of his death. The son Levi served four years as a member of Company B, Twenty - ninth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and was made the captain of his company. Mr. Hess, the father, was a second time married, wedding in 1889 Mrs. Delia Tatem, nee Beckmer, and it was in the year following his second marriage that he removed to Missouri. He was a member of the Baptist church in an early day, but died as a member of the Christian church, and his political affiliations were first with the Democratic party, later with the Whigs, and at the time of his death he was identified with the Republican party.

[A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana, Daniel McDonald]

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