Tillie was the eldest of nine children born to Augustus Hahn u his frau, Amelia [Abend] Hahn. Tillie was born in Deutschland & came to the United States with her parents in 1907. She married first Everett Daniel Robinson. Together this couple would have seven children. Later, after Everett died, she married Paul Elsner. They would have no children together. Tillie is buried in the Robinson Family Plot in Forrest Home Cemetery, Newberry, Luce County, Michigan.