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Hyman Rouse HESSER
Name: Hyman R Hesser
Gender: Male
Spouse: Sarah Hesser
Publication Title: San Jose, California, City Directory, 1907

Polk's San Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory
lists Sarah Hesser 744 Sycamore widow of Hyman R Hesser

IOOF cemetery book page 157.

Married to Sarah Underwood Hesser.

Home in 1900: Soquel, Santa Cruz, California
Sarah Hesser 62
Josephine Paulis 20 divorced daughter
Viola M Paulis 3

1880 United States Federal Census about Hyman R. Hesser
Name: Hyman R. Hesser
Age: 49
Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: California
Home in 1880: Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Sarah Hesser
Occupation: Wood Chopper
Household Members:
Name Age
Hyman R. Hesser 49
Sarah Hesser 40
Ollie J. Hesser 2

A soldier in the Civil War and was wounded, losing his right arm.

U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872 about Hyman R Hesser
Name: Hyman R Hesser
Pension Office State: Iowa
Year Range: 1855-1866

U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 about Hyman R Hesser
Name: Hyman R Hesser
State Filed: California
Widow: Sarah Hesser
Roll Number: T288_214

U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
Name: Herman Hesser
Residence: Isney, Rock Island, Illinois
Class: 1
Congressional District: 4th
Age on 1 July 1863: 32
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Ohio

Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 Record for H R Hesser. Gross Brothers, Lee MA
Hesser H. R.
Pvt (?), Co., A, 7 Regt
Iowa ?????
Cemetery _______
at Soquel Calif
Grave _______
Date of death Nov 30 - 1890
Headstone supplied by Gross Brothers, Lee, MA
Contract dated Sept 5, 1891

Unit Designation: 7th
Branch: Infantry
State: Iowa
Civil War: Union
Company: A
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 07 Oct 1861
Discharged: Dec 1861