From the Applications for Marriage License, Porter County, 24 January,
1881:
John N. F. HESS and Catherine RUSHEN.
Below on the same paper:
Record of marriage, 5 February 1881
John N. F. HESS and Catharine RIESSEN
[Note variation in Catharine's last name on the same paper. Her (maiden?)
name had been Catharine WITTHOF, and she was the widow of Jürgen RÜHSEN.
Most of the children used the last name REASON.
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From the Valparaiso Messenger, 28 Feb 1901:
John HESS, residing
north of town, died yesterday morning aged 73 years.
He leaves a wife and two children by a former wife, Fred HESS, of this
county, and a daughter in Grand Island, Neb. The funeral will be held from
the late home tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
[Note: This may be the same John HESS who married Catharine WITTHOF
RIESSEN, but I am NOT sure that it is.]