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Below is a family biography included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1880.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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FRANCIS M. TULLIS, resides in Dallas; manufacturer of tile, Ansonia; born in Brown Township, Darke Co., Ohio, Sept. 26, 1854; he was the youngest son of Milton Tullis, who was born in Miami Co., Ohio, March 29, 1813. He married, in Ohio, Sarah Marshall, Sept. 5, 1848, who was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 20, 1816; they came to Darke County about the year 1849, and located in Brown Township, near Dallas; followed farming and merchandise till his death, which occurred Aug. 26, 1863. Mrs. Tullis died Jan. 12, 1870; they were the parents of five children, of whom three are living—Francis M., Cordelia A. (now Mrs. Dr. Samuel Hostetter), and Olive D. (now Dr. L. C. Anderson), all living in Dallas; Francis M. obtained a common-school education, and followed clerking in Dallas until the spring of 1877, when he engaged in farming, and in the fall of 1878, purchased the tile factory of Reed & White, at Dallas, and has since devoted his attention to the above business, manufacturing tile of the best quality; his sales the first year amounted to some $3,000; his business card will be found in the business directory of Ansonia in another part of this work; he has, aside from his factory, a farm of 42 acres joining the corporation of Dallas, and his lots and residence in town. His marriage with Margaret A. Burket was celebrated May 29, 1877; she was born in Darke Co., Ohio, May 15, 1857.

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This family biography is one of 659 biographies included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published in 1880 by W. H. Beers & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Darke County, Ohio History and Genealogy

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