Source: Barbara Schichtel on Ancestry.com.
In 1880 her parents Nikolaus and Margaret Gilles lived next door to Mary’s family in Avon, Lorain County, Ohio. Based on the census from 1880 she was born in 1845. As of 1900 she had had 10 children of whom eight were living.

Source: Allen Huelskamp; and Mary Catherine Diederich's family history; and Ancestry.com—New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
He sailed with his parents of five of his siblings from Le Havre, France on the ship “Waverly,” arriving in New York, New York on August 28, 1847. The ship’s register reported that he was five years old. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
He and Mary Anne Gilles of French Creek, Lorain County, Ohio had 10 children.
In 1870 he and his wife and two children lived in North Ridgeville, Lorain County near his parents and his brothers Nicholas and Matthias and their families. In 1880 he and his wife and eight children lived in Avon, Lorain County. In 1900 he lived with his wife and four of their children in North Ridgeville. Their record, with his name poorly written, appears on sheet 24 of the North Ridgeville census record for 1900. In 1910 he was a widower living in North Ridgeville with his daughter Mary.