Tice-Michal Timeline
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Surnames/tags: Tice Michal Tilton
Elva (Tice) Michal, daughter of Harry and Bertha Lavina Cooke Tice, became interested in the Tilton/Cooke genealogy about 5 years before retiring as an independent piano teacher in Columbus, Ohio. Keith Michal (a professor at the Ohio State University) also became interested in researching his Chalker and Michal family lines about the same time. Elva’s first motivation to begin genealogy research came from a cousin on the Tilton side: Mary (Tilton) Conger, who told her that she had been unable to find out any information about an ancestor on the Tilton side of the family (Silas Tilton, Jr.) and asked Elva if she would help her ‘find his story’. For the next 38 years they worked on tracing the family histories, traveling to the locations where their ancestors had lived and researching local libraries and genealogy societies while meticulously documenting the history using primary sources. During the last few years Elva wrote this 21 volume history, building on the framework that they had established, but also adding in the stories that she learned as a young girl growing up in an original stone homestead house on the Kansas Prairie. While she was writing this, she and Keith both became ill, Elva from complications from a Cancer surgery 12 year prior, and Keith from two brain tumors. Racing against her own approaching mortality, she persevered, finally finishing her work only a week or so before she died on Oct. 12 2023 at the age of 90. Keith had died just 4 days before his beloved wife on Oct. 8.
Elva wanted to give this to the world as a gift to all of her relatives and I feel honored to have been entrusted with it's distribution.
Created by Dr. Elva Michal © Copyright 1992-2023 by Dr. Elva Michal, all rights reserved.
This 21 Volume set sets down some of the generally accepted ancestors but primarily focuses on stories. This massive project was the major focus of her later years and she completed the project just days before her death on Oct. 12, 2023.
The remaining volumes contain stories of people whom are still living so the privacy is set to Private. If you are a related family member please contact me and I will provide the remaining volumes.
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