Johann Heinrich Thies was born 03-07-1777 and died 03-06-1867.(my gggg grandfather.) He married Anne Catharine Dorothee Dauel 04-19-1805 in St. Dionysus, Steimbke, Germany. He is buried in St. John's Cemetery near O'Hare. Sophie Thies Scharringhausen married Johann Heinrich Friederich Scharringhausen, 12-30-1825. They are buried in Elk Grove Cemetery. His son Henry settled in Palatine. He and his family were on the same boat to America as my ggg grandma, Wilhelmina Thies Biermann and her family(1851). He married Sophie Hachmeister. Also Friederich Thies was another son of Johann Heinrich Thies. I have a page from Kane Co. History from 1888, pg. 359, stating his parents were Henry and Dora(Dowl) and his sister was Sophia Scharringhausen. Another brother to Sophie, Henry, Friederich, and Wilhelmina was Wilhelm Thies born in 1819 and married to Maria Helfers. They arrived in 1857. In 1870 and 1880 they lived in Addison, DuPage Co. IL. Johann's children: Sophie Scharringhausen (Elk Grove), Henry Thies(Palatine);a son born 9-12-1809, died 12-25-1814, Johann Heinrich Dieterich born 11-23-1813, Wilhelmina Biermann(Elk Grove), Wilhelm Thies(Addison) and Friederick Thies(Plato). Jill