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
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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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