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ANTON TIETZ was born in Wernegitten, a village near Heilsberg, EastPrusia, on May 27, 1866. Anton was the last of 5 children born toANTON TIETZ and ANNA BARB TESCHNER. Anton left home at about age 18, worked at a RAMSAU estate for perhaps2 years. He went next to ILOVA estate near Poland for perhaps 1 year.He returned home because of illness (pleurisy). He was rejected bythe military before his return because of an eye injury from a musketrifle accident. Anton worked at the DIETRICH farm for some time. His sister BERTHA(1860) married WOYWOD (sic) (JOSEPH WAYWOOD), purchased the TIETZ farmabout 1891, and paid off the brothers. Anton bought cuckoo clock,shot gun and barometer. In the spring of 1892, accompanied byJOSEPH WAYWOOD (Wernegitten),Anton left for the U.S. They became separated in Berlin. Anton wasadvised by a schoolteacher's son to travel via Antwerp? to Hull,England, to Liverpool, and to the U.S. (Philadelphia). He wentdirectly to Jennings County and stayed with CORNELIUS TESCHNER. Heleft there and came to Indianapolis, Indiana, boarding at Oeftering's.He worked in a lumber yard for a few days, then with ANTON DREWSuntil the fall at Vandalia Railroad. Anton married Mathilde Maria Dietrich in St. Anne Church, JenningsCounty, Indiana, on January 24, 1893. Mathilde was born in Medien,near Heilsberg, East Prussia, on November 15, 1868. She emigrated toIndianapolis, Indiana, in the fall of 1892. Among the reasons for the emigration of Anton Tietz and others was thenature of the militaristic government, compulsory military training,advertisements in certain German publications extolling the freedomsin the U.S., and the evident satisfaction of friends and relativeswith the conditions in Indiana.
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