My g-g-grandpa John Wesley Gessell had 2 kids in Ohio (Mary Jane & Matilda Angeline) and 6 in Nebraska (George, Perry, Van Trump, Beatrice, Don Piot, & Eugene William). I have no idea what happened to any of them except Perry. John's wife was Susan Weasner b. 1839 in Basil, Ohio. John was b. in 1837 in Basil, Ohio. Father was David Gessell born in Pennsylvania in 1788. I must have some cousins and family history out there somewhere.