He was the son of Haji Zakar and Gadar Der Avedisian, who were originally from Arapkir, Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. Tateos is believed to have been born in Arapkir but later moved to the town of Tokat likely in the 1890s. He had two brothers Haroutune and Avedis and two sisters. He married Maritza Kurkjian of Tokat and they had five children. Tateos and Maritza's eldest son Pilbos (born around 1894) was an academic who moved to the capital Constantinople where he was a schoolteacher. A daughter Arshalous died in infancy or childhood. Pilbos was said to have sent a poem to his family which warned in code of the coming genocide of 1915. He disappeared from Istanbul, probably arrested and killed like numerous other Armenian intellectuals. In June 1915 all the men of Tokat were told they were needed by the army to build a road. They were taken outside the town but when they did not return the village became alarmed and went looking for them. Tateos's daughter Armenouhi is said to have found the men and seen them lined up and shot by the Turkish army. Within days many women of the town including Maritza were taken and not heard from again. In a subsequent grouping Armenouhi and her brothers Arshavir and Hrant were taken, as the entire Armenian population of Tokat and the entire region were being liquidated on death marches towards the Syrian desert. Armenouhi and her brothers were only able to leave with a few belongings and a cart. Both brothers starved to death during the march. Armenouhi was taken from the death march by a Turk or Kurd with whom she lived for up to four years until being rescued by a relative, the only survivor of her immediate family.
He was the son of Haji Zakar and Gadar Der Avedisian, who were originally from Arapkir, Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. Tateos is believed to have been born in Arapkir but later moved to the town of Tokat likely in the 1890s. He had two brothers Haroutune and Avedis and two sisters. He married Maritza Kurkjian of Tokat and they had five children. Tateos and Maritza's eldest son Pilbos (born around 1894) was an academic who moved to the capital Constantinople where he was a schoolteacher. A daughter Arshalous died in infancy or childhood. Pilbos was said to have sent a poem to his family which warned in code of the coming genocide of 1915. He disappeared from Istanbul, probably arrested and killed like numerous other Armenian intellectuals. In June 1915 all the men of Tokat were told they were needed by the army to build a road. They were taken outside the town but when they did not return the village became alarmed and went looking for them. Tateos's daughter Armenouhi is said to have found the men and seen them lined up and shot by the Turkish army. Within days many women of the town including Maritza were taken and not heard from again. In a subsequent grouping Armenouhi and her brothers Arshavir and Hrant were taken, as the entire Armenian population of Tokat and the entire region were being liquidated on death marches towards the Syrian desert. Armenouhi and her brothers were only able to leave with a few belongings and a cart. Both brothers starved to death during the march. Armenouhi was taken from the death march by a Turk or Kurd with whom she lived for up to four years until being rescued by a relative, the only survivor of her immediate family.
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