Richmond HESS Family Bible, Cape May County, NJ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Ray Steelman http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** " RICHMOND HESS BIBLE RECORD " CAPE MAY COUNTY NEW JERSEY RICHMOND HESS, son of SAMUEL and ELENER HESS, was married to ABIGAIL CHAMPION, daughter of DAVID and RHEUHAMAH CHAMPION, on the 12th day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight - 1848. RICHMOND HESS was born November 26 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven - 1827. ABIGAIL CHAMPION, wife of RICHMOND HESS, was born May 15th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one - 1831. NATHANIEL C. HESS, son of RICHMOND & ABIGAIL HESS, was born November 10th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine - 1849. RHEUHAMAH C. HESS was born November 23rd in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one - 1851. DANIEL I. HESS was born July 31st in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three - 1853. JOSEPHINE HESS was born April 27th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine - 1859. ELENER HESS was born July 26th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four - 1864. JONATHAN HESS, husband of ELENER HESS, was born November 9th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one - 1861. DANIEL I. HESS departed this life April 2d in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five - 1855; aged 1 year, 8 months, 3 days. JOSEPHINE HESS departed this life August 5th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine - 1859; aged 3 months, 8 days. RICHMOND HESS departed this life November 5th, 1894. ABIGAIL HESS departed this life January 9th, 1912. ELENER HESS departed this life October 25th, 1926. The foregoing record was copied, August, 1928, from the family Bible of Richmond Hess which is now in the possession of Jonathan Hess, Tuckahoe, New Jersey.