American Friend & Marietta Gazette, August 25, 1832
Obituary
Died at his residence in Ohio township [Gallia County] of Typhus Fever, on Thursday 2d inst., Mr. Francis Thierry, aged 67 years. He was a native of France and emigrated to this country in 1790, was one of the first settlers of Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and long a respectable citizen of that place; he has left a wife and large family of children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate father.
Gallia Phoenix
This is the little French baker who baked bread for Louis Philippe, the future King of France, during his trip down the Ohio in 1798.
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