Louis Roess and Rachel Aggers

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Husband Louis Roess ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Louis Race 3
           Born: 8 Feb 1837 - Hanover, Germany 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Feb 1897 - ? Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Martin Roess (      -1851) 4
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 25 Nov 1862 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2

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Wife Rachel Aggers ^{2 3}

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           Born: 31 Mar 1844
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Jan 1925
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Christopher Aggers (1808-      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M George W. Roess ²

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           Born: 1865
     Christened: 
           Died: 1915 2
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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2 M Henry C. Roess ²

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3 M Charles W. Roess ²

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           Born: 1868
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Mar 1917 2
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 5

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4 M Louis J. Roess ²

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           Born: 1870
     Christened: 
           Died: 1933
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Mabel L. Simmons (1876-1956)
           Marr: 1902 - ? Venango Co, PA

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5 M Martin M. T. Roess ²

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6 F Ida Elizabeth Roess ²

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         Spouse: Rev. William Brecht (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1896 - ? Venango Co, PA

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7 F Lillian Roess ²

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            AKA: Lelia Roess 1
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8 F Loretta Roess ²

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           Born: 8 Jul 1885
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 May 1897
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Louis Roess

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He received all his schooling in Germany, and also the thorough vocational training typical of that country, learning the trades of locksmith and butcher, the latter his principal occupation in early manhood. Coming to America in 1857, with his mother and a younger brother and sister, he lived in Pittsburgh, PA, for a few years after his arrival in the United States, following the butcher business. In 1860 that he came to the region of Oil City, locating on the old Story farm and for a few years continuing to work at his trade. But he had been drawn to the locality by the oil fields, and he began investing in oil lands almost immediately, within a few years acquiring interests of sufficient extent and value to occupy all his time, and continuing the production of oil during the rest of his life. He was associated with his brother Christian Roess and Conrad Simmons under the name of Roess Brothers & Company, Louis Roess being the head of the firm, which transacted a large business in the buying and selling of oil, besides owning and operating some of the richest wells in the oil districts of Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. He was a prominent member of the old Oil Exchange at Oil City. Mr. Roess made his home at Oil City from 1870, a few years later building a substantial residence at the corner of Central Avenue and First Street. [CAB, 726]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 900.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 736.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 244.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 736, 744.

5 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985), Sec 20, Lot 139.