Hocking County OhArchives History .....Till Family September 10 1964 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Daniel Till cooknavy@msn.com March 20, 2004, 11:33 am The TILL family tree stems from the oldest known ancestors of the Till Family, Michel Thil and Angelique Etienne. Michel and Angelique were the parents of a son also named Michel. It is to be noted that several names of persons and places occurring in this family tree are not individually always spelled the same. The name "Till" was originally Thil, then Thill, and now Till. The first mentioned Michel Thil was a day-worker at Baruich, Canton of Arlon, Province of Luxembourg. He was born in the year 1780, as near as can be determined by the birth certificate of his son Michel. Michel Thill, son of Michel Thil and Angelique Etienne, was born February 9, 1800 at Baruich, Canton of Arlon, Province of Luxembourg. According to a letter of introduction by N. Stoffel the Burgomaster of the Commune of Hobscheid, Michel was "by profession a mason (bricklayer), whose home is at Eischen". Michael Till married Barbara Simmons in the month of April 1827. This marriage was recorded in the register of marriages of the Commune of Hobscheid, Canton of Arlon, Province of Luxembourg. They were the parents of two sons and six daughters, and besides these there were two girls who died in infancy. In the year 1833, Michael and Barbara with their two oldest children, Nicholas and Mary came to America and settled at Taylorsville, Ohio (called Philo since 1950). It was there where their other children, Victoria, Barbara, Magdalen, John, Catherine and Theresa were Born. Michael, father of Nicholas, Mary and the others, had a sister who married a man by the name of Burtcher. They came to America on a later boat than the one taken by Michael and his family. It was learned from the Burtchers of New Philadelphia, Ohio, that there were others in the family, but nothing further is known about them. Nicholas Till, son of Michael Till and Barbara Simmons was born May 1, 1828 at Eischen, Canton of Arlon, in the Province of Luxembourg. In the year 1833 he came with his parents and oldest sister Mary to America and as before mentioned, settled at Taylorsville, Ohio. Nicholas was at that time five years old, and his sister Mary was nine months old. Nicholas Till and Catherine Lootz were married September 21, 1852 and were the parents of eight sons. In 1856 Nicholas and his wife Catherine and their three oldest sons, Nicholas M., John and Henry, moved to Hocking County Ohio on a farm just a few miles north of Logan where the other sons, Fred, Joseph, Michael, George, and Joseph were born. The sons attended the Till school which was only a short distance tram their home. The income from the farm hardly provided enough for the family, so the young men engaged in various other kinds of work such as, the cooper trade, hauling fire clay by means of team and wagon to Circleville, working in the coal mines, etc. Nicholas M., and John , twins, were the oldest sons. John was killed at the age of nineteen years by a team of runaway horses. Nicholas M. married Elizabeth Shorr. He and his family made their home in Logan, Ohio. He was a bricklayer and worked for many years at both the pottery plant and the brickyard, both in Logan. He and his son John also worked in Junction City, Ohio, where they built the brick plant, and they also built the Gobles Brick Plant some miles from Junction City. In the year 1883, Henry and his wife Ellen and son Joseph, together with Henry's brother Fred and his wife Catherine (Kate), bought an eighty acre farm in Washington township, Allen County, Indiana. This property is located between what are now known as the Till and Wallen roads, and a quarter mile west of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. For a while all lived in a home on the Till road, and later Fred and his wife moved to a house upon the hill north of the till road just east and south of the creek, on a farm purchased by his father. Not long after that Henry and Fred divided their eighty acre farm between themselves, Henry taking the North forty acres, and remained in his home on the till road, and Fred took the South forty acres. There he built his home on the Wallen road. In the year 1885 Nicholas and his wife Catherine, and their three youngest sons, Michael, George and Joseph, brothers of Nicholas M, Henry and Fred, moved from their home in Hocking County, Ohio, to a ninety-five acre farm on the Northwest corner of the Till road and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, in Washington township, Allen county, Indiana. The house and farm buildings were about a quarter mile from the road on the north side of the creek. Nicholas and Catherine had two sons named Joseph, the first having died at the age of five years which was before the other Joseph was born. After moving with his parents to Indiana, Michael went to Lancaster, Ohio where he married Anna Fox. He then purchased a farm in Lake Township, Allen County, Indiana about two and one half miles East of Arcola. It was there where all the children in the family were born. In March of the year 1904, Michael and his family moved to a farm near Shelby settlement, a few miles Southwest of Shelby, Ohio. George married Josephine Delagrange and they bought a farm on the Northwest corner of the Dupont and the Old Auburn roads in Perry Township, Allen County, Indiana. Joseph married Mary Bobay and they lived in a house adjoining that of Joseph's father and mother. He farmed the home place and remained there until in April, 1902, when he and his family moved to a farm which he purchased on the Northwest corner of the Leo and Tonkel roads, in St. Joseph Township, Allen County, Indiana. When the father and the mother, Nicholas and Catherine, and the brothers with their families in Washington, Perry and St. Joseph townships exchanged visits with Michael and his family in Lake township, they would usually travel by horse and buggy or express wagon. On account of the "great distance", ten miles more or less, some of them would, on occasions, start on a Saturday early in the afternoon and return home again Sunday afternoon, the following day. The families of this tree are arranged according to generations following the oldest traceable ancestors, but not as the actual first, second, third, etc. When Michael Till cane to America he brought certificates of birth and marriage, and letters of introduction from Luxembourg. The translations of these documents from the Latin and French are by the Crosier Fathers to whom we are grateful. September 10, 1964 Excerpt from the register of births of the Commune of Autel-Bas, Canton of Arlon, Province of Luxembourg. Today, the twenty-sixth Pluviose (Note: this is the fifth month of the calendar of the first French Republic: Jan.20 to Feb. 18 or 19). The eighth of the French Republic, at one o'clock in the afternoon, there has appeared before me, Francois Steinbag, agent of the Commune (town) of Autel-Bas, Canton of Arlon, department of forests, Michel Thil, age fifty-three, a day-worker at Baruich, assisted by two witnesses, namely, Dominique Girschmarchal, age sixty- eight, and Pierre Reding, a laborer, age thirty-eight, both living at Baruich; these have declared to me that Angelique Etienne, wife to the first-named Michel, has given birth on the twenty-sixth Pluviose at four o'clock in the morning in her home at Baruich, to a boy, to whom the father has wished to give the prenom (first name) Michel; the witnesses have declared this presentation to be true, and the presentation of the child has been made to us. We have recorded the present act of birth which the two witnesses and the father of the child have signed together with us ... Michel Thil, Dominique Girsch, Pierre Reding and Frantz Steinbag, agent... that this is the original document is testified to by N. Olinger, the 30th of April, 1833. This document is the birth certificate of Michel Thil, husband of Barbara Simon. Testimonial Letter of Michael Thill and Barbara Simon, Spouse. Eischen 4 May 1833 To all who read this, greetings in the Lord. In virtue of this document I testify to all that Michael Thill, age 32, and Barbara Simon, also 32, - both of upright and prudent character --in the Diocese of Namur, a sub-district of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, members of the aforesaid parish of Eischen, did legitimately contract marriage, observing all the regulations of the Church. From this legitimate union were born to the aforesaid party two children; one, Nicholas, now 5 years old, the other, Mary, nine months old. Living here until this time, they have been properly instructed in the Christian religion and in the Catholic faith to which they belong. I testify that they have lived uprightly as good Christians and have given many solid proofs of piety in their life and morals. Now since they have decided to set out for America, I earnestly recommend their journey to all and each, asking them to kindly allow this family to pass through their territory without hindrance, and in their Christian charity to help them in their needs. In testimony whereof, I have signed my name below and have affixed hereto my pastoral seal, in the parish rectory of Eischen, on this fourth day of May 1833. Linden Jean Georges, Rector This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 9.8 Kb