Henry married Louise Christman on 28 Nov 1894 in Monroe County, Ohio, USA. Louise (daughter of John W. Christman and Eva Pfalzgraf) was born on 14 Mar 1871 in Monroe County, Ohio, USA; died on 27 May 1919 in Belmont County, Ohio, USA; was buried on 30 May 1919 in Belmont County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hermann married Mary Niesz on 16 Mar 1862 in Monroe County, Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of Johannes Wilhelm Nieß Niesz and Christina Karolina Peppel) was born on 11 Jun 1843 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 22 Jun 1939 in Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA; was buried on 28 Jun 1939 in St. John's Middle Church Cemetery, Summit Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Eva Pfalzgraf on 22 Dec 1868. Eva (daughter of Georges Michel Pfalzgraf and Elisabeth Diehl) was born on 9 Sep 1848 in Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA; died on 23 Dec 1942 in Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Christina Karolina Peppel. Christina was born in 1820 in Darmstadt, Hessen; died in in Monroefield, Malaga Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Georges married Eve Rosine Uhlmann on 12 May 1825 in Obersteinbach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Eve (daughter of Jean Jacques Uhlmann and Dorothea Salomea Geiger) was born on 3 Apr 1803 in Windstein, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 18 Jan 1892 in Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Published in the Monroe County Beacon, July 16, 1964 and by Clermont C. Pfalzgraph, Grandson of George Michael Jr. and Elizabeth Diehl Pfalzgraph

George Michael Pfalzgraph Jr. was born in 1809 in the family home, which was a stone house approximately two and a half miles from the Rhine River. George Michael Sr?s mother was buried on Easter Sunday 1832 which was the same day that his family joined with other families and departed for LeHarve, France as the first step of their emigration to the United States. Included in the party were George Michael Pfalzgraph Sr., a cousin, and a maiden, Elizabeth Diehl, who later became the wife of Michael Jr. In another account (see below) it was noted that Elizabeth?s father was angry about her emigrating to the United States.

Based on oral histories and our interpretation of scant records, it was not unusual for the early settlers of Miltonsburg and Monroe County villages to leave substantial (stone) homes in Germany and France and accept the crude dwellings and conditions of the American frontier as their new home. Making the journey with other family members and close family associates such as Elizabeth Diehl as well as other families from the same general area was also a common pattern. Once a family settled in United States, other family members and acquaintances naturally joined them at least for a time in this country. This pattern helps to explain why we found that almost everyone who lived in Miltonsburg in the nineteenth century seemed to be related to someone else who lived in the village.

The Pfalzgraph party landed in Baltimore, Maryland in July of 1832. They then took tobacco wagons returning to Barnesville, Ohio.

Using returning tobacco wagons to get to Monroe County helps confirm an oral history explanation that Baltimore Road in Miltonsburg was so named because it was the road taken by the tobacco wagons as they left the village headed for the tobacco warehouses and auctions in Baltimore.

From Barnesville, George Michael Sr. went to Monroe County and paid $1.25 per acre for 40 acres of government land near Woodsfield and put it in Michael Jr?s name as he was the only child. The cousin headed south upon reaching Barnesville and was never heard from again. George Michael Sr. was a stonecutter by trade. He never remarried; could not speak English and died July 5, 1852. George Michael Jr., who was 23 years old when he arrived, was a teamster before coming to the United States. He died January 3, 1867.

Their first work on the 40 acres was to dig a spring (well?) which still provides water. They built a (log?) house, which had dirt floors, in three days. No glass or metal of any kind was used in the construction of the house. A hole was cut for a window. When it was cold something was hung over the opening. Boards in the door were split from a tree and wooden hinges and a wooden lock was installed. The roof of the cabin was held in place by weight poles.

They made all their furniture. The chairs had three legs like milk stools except a little higher. The table was made from a big block of wood about eight inches thick which was taken from a tree split in half. Holes were bored in it and posts were driven into them for legs. They cooked in a fireplace and slept on the floor.

A year after they established their home in United States, the grandmother (Elizabeth Diehl) wrote and told her father that they had two hogs to butcher, 40 bushel of wheat and a good supply of potatoes. She also told him that they had to burn wood to get rid of it. He could not believe this but seven years later her father?s family (the Diehls) emigrated to the United States.

Georges married Elisabeth Diehl about 1832 in Dambach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Elisabeth (daughter of Valentin Diehl and Margaretha Salomea Rauch) was born on 2 Mar 1811 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 17 Jul 1883 in Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]