Hershey-Landis Cem.
old Hess family cem.
Minister of the Old Mennonite Church - ordained in 1800. John and Esther owned 120 acres of Hess Homestead tract and lived in the old Hess log house. They put the second floor on the log house. They held church in the log house as well as at the neighboring stone house where John's sister, Elizabeth, married to Daniel Burkholder, lived.
Lived in old Hess Homestead, Warwick Twp., loghouse which was by then a two-story house. 1864 sale deed states they owned a portion of three different Hess tracts. They built a second front door to the log house to accommodate privacy because they shared their house with their son, Jonas. Died of typhoid fever.
Eleve
Died aged 16.
Died aged 8.
Married Sam Oberholtzer (brother of Christian) 1802-1875. Rothville.
11 Children.
Eight children.
old Hess family cem.
Minister of the Old Mennonite Church - ordained in 1800. John and Esther owned 120 acres of Hess Homestead tract and lived in the old Hess log house. They put the second floor on the log house. They held church in the log house as well as at the neighboring stone house where John's sister, Elizabeth, married to Daniel Burkholder, lived.