Georges Michel Pfalzgraf

1809 - 1867  (57 years)

• Name	Georges Michel Pfalzgraf
  Born	23 Aug 1809	Dambach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Jan 1867	Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I42115	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Georg Michael Pfalzgraf,   b. 8 Dec 1781, Wineckerthal, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France ,   d. 5 Jul 1852, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Eva Magdalena Lett,   b. 10 Sep 1786, Wineckerthal, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France ,   d. 17 Apr 1832, France  (Age 45 years)
  Married	18 Jun 1808	Dambach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
  Family ID	F19716	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Diehl,   b. 2 Mar 1811, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France ,   d. 17 Jul 1883, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Married	Abt 1832	Dambach, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
  Children	1. Jacob Pfalzgraf,   b. 23 Aug 1832, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 4 Feb 1873, Center Township, Washington County, Ohio, USA  (Age 40 years)   2. Rosina Pfalzgraf,   b. 22 Feb 1834, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France ,   d. 0Mar 1919, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 85 years)   3. John Pfalzgraf,   b. 11 Feb 1837, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 10 May 1919, Adams Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 82 years)   4. Elizabeth Pfalzgraf,   b. 28 Sep 1838, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 20 Jan 1929, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 90 years)   5. Magdalena Pfalzgraf,   b. 3 Dec 1839, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 4 Mar 1878, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 38 years)   6. Christina Frederica Pfalzgraf,   b. 3 Jun 1841, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 28 May 1901, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 59 years) + 7. Mary Pfalzgraf,   b. 10 Jan 1843, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 1893, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 49 years)   8. Barbara E. Pfalzgraf,   b. 2 Sep 1845, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 9 Jan 1928, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 82 years)   9. Saloma Pfalzgraf,   b. 2 May 1846, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 12 Aug 1854, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 8 years)   10. Lewis Pfalzgraf,   b. 9 Mar 1847, Ohio, USA ,   d. 10 Jul 1937, West Virginia, USA  (Age 90 years)   11. Eva Pfalzgraf,   b. 9 Sep 1848, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 23 Dec 1942, Seneca Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 94 years)   12. Louise Pfalzgraf,   b. 26 Jan 1850, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 18 Oct 1932, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 82 years)   13. George Pfalzgraf,   b. 20 Sep 1856, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 14 Jan 1944, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F19712	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.