Bessie M. Burgess ^{1 2}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in North Branch Twp., Wyoming, PA. ² The 1880 census recorded Byron J. Burgess, farmer, 27, living with wife Susan J., 30; Bessie, 4; and servant McClellan Ward, 15.

2. Census in 1930 in Catawissa, Columbia, PA. ³ The 1930 census recorded at 148 Second Street: Bessie Kern, widow, 52, living with a boarder, Chester Bucher, radio mechanic in a radio store, 25, who is the brother of Bessie's daughter-in-law, Dorothy Bucher Kern. They are their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

Bessie married Harrison E. Kern. (Harrison E. Kern was born on 19 May 1867 in Sugarloaf Twp., Columbia, PA,⁴ died in 1926 ⁴ and was buried in Catawissa: Hillside Cemetery, Columbia, PA ⁴.)