Elizabeth Hess

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Elizabeth Hess (Foutz)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: August 25, 1876 (79)
Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States
Place of Burial: Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Foutz and Elizabeth Catherine Secrist
Wife of Jacob Hess
Mother of John Hess; Catherine Hess; Polly Workman; Mary Ann Johnson; John William Hess and 9 others
Sister of Mary "Polly" Secrist; John Foutz; Riley; Jacob Foutz; Michael or Micial Foutz and 4 others
Half sister of Mary Cook; Catharine Dull; Margaret Monn; Susanna Reed; John S Secrist and 6 others

Managed by: Susanna Barnevik
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About Elizabeth Hess

GEDCOM Note

Archive sheet and IGI Original baptism date is given as Sep 1883 Her husband, Jacob Hess, was the son of John Hess, of Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He and Elizabeth are visible in public records as to his paternity, their removal fron Washington Township to Peters Township in 1822, their return to Washington Township in 1832 and their removal to Ray Couty, Missouri in 1836 (FOLLOWING THEIR BECOMING MORMONS IN 1834). The remainder of their story was written by their eldest son, John W. Hess, of Davis County, Utah, in the autobiography


research by the Foutz Family, when they hired John Scott Davenport Roots Web World Connect Project: Ancestors and Cousins of Emily Wilde. Her bigraphy published in DUP says they joined the church in 1834 in Ohio, along with her were her husband and four older children. That is when and were the persecution started. They moved to Ray County, Missouri, then they were expeled and moved to Hancock County, Illimois settling on a piece of land near Carthage where, when the persecution started in Nauvoo, they were forced to move into Nauvoo staying with her brother, Jacob.

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Elizabeth Hess's Timeline

1797
June 22, 1797
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
June 22, 1797
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1817
September 10, 1817
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
September 10, 1817
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1819
June 27, 1819
Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1821
August 11, 1821
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1824
August 24, 1824
Waneburgh, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1827
February 22, 1827
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1829
March 24, 1829
Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States