It is likely that Joseph was married before his marriage to Mary. The 1880 census shows a child, Fred, 10 living with them.
"Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPD4-BZ2P : 26 October 2021), Joseph Sick, 14 Feb 1832; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Teningen, Emmendingen, Baden, Deutschland, Teningen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X836-7D4 : 29 September 2021), Joseph Sick and Mary A. Tillotson, 1878.
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