Gonos
Miner’s First Name: Wasil Miner’s Middle Name: Miner’s Last Name: Gonos Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Zawadka, Rymanowska Miner’s Country: Poland Arrived in USA: 12/4/1901 Miner Information: Wasil Gonos' ethnicity was Carpatho-Rusyn. Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: Wasil Gonos died of pneumonia. Died: 1/17/1935 Birth Date: 09/13/1883 Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: St. Vladimir's Greek Catholic Church, Alden, PA Wife’s Name: Eva Wife’s Middle Name: Wife’s Last Name: Sivulicz Birth Place of Wife: Wife’s Country: Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: Died: Birth Date: Number of Children: 4 Child Name 1: Elizabeth Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Gonos Birth Date: Child Name 2: Mary Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Gonos Birth Date: Child Name 3: Ann Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Gonos Birth Date: Child Name 4: Helen Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Gonos Birth Date: Child Name 5: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 6: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: Corinne Author’s Middle Name: Author’s Last Name: Musto Relationship to Miner: Third...
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Miner’s First Name: Merthyn Miner’s Middle Name: Miner’s Last Name: Edwards Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Glen Lyon, PA Miner’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Miner Information: His parents, David and Martha Edwards, emigrated to America from Mountain Ash, Wales, in the late 1880's. They lived in Glen Lyon, St. Clair, and then finally Nanticoke, PA. Merthyn married Irene Thompson of Shickshinny, where he also mined. He had five children. When there wasn't any work for him in the mines, he took a job building the railroads in Oneida, New York. Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: His death was listed as leukemia, but his wife claimed it was black lung. Died: 8/29/1964 Birth Date: 07/28/1892 Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Wife’s Name: Irene Wife’s Middle Name: Kathryn Wife’s Last Name: Thompson Birth Place of Wife: Shickshinny, PA Wife’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: A patient in Elizabethtown's Masonic Homes, my grandmother died of old age. She would have been 104 years old. She was mentally and physically sound until her 96th birthday. After that she moved in with her daughter, Charlotte Zaludek, and her husband Dan in Kensington, Maryland. While in the Masonic Homes she was being treated for dementia. Died: 8/12/1998 Birth Date: 1893-11-22 Number of Children: 5 Child Name 1: James Child’s Middle Name: Thompson Child’s Last Name: Edwards Birth Date: 5/2/1918 Child Name 2: Merthyn Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Edwards Birth Date: 4/18/1928 Child Name 3: Charlotte Child’s Middle Name: Claire Child’s Last Name: Edwards Birth Date: 1/21/1930 Child Name 4: Irene Child’s Middle Name: Marilyn Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 5: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 6: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: Priscilla Author’s Middle Name: Davis Author’s Last Name: Farrell Relationship to...
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Miner’s First Name: Edward Miner’s Middle Name: Miner’s Last Name: Ryan Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Mahanoy, PA Miner’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Miner Information: Worked for Ellangowan Coal Company, lived and died in Ellangowan, PA Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: Died of black lung in 1963. Died: Birth Date: Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: Mahanoy, PA Wife’s Name: Catherine Wife’s Middle Name: Wife’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Place of Wife: Mahanoy, PA Wife’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: Natural causes, Shenandoah, PA, in 1981 Died: Birth Date: Number of Children: 6 Child Name 1: Francis Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: Child Name 2: Thomas Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: Child Name 3: Margaret Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: Child Name 4: Mary Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: Child Name 5: James Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: Child Name 6: John Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Ryan Birth Date: 11/18/1934 Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: Michael Author’s Middle Name: Author’s Last Name: Ryan Relationship to...
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Miner’s First Name: Matthew Miner’s Middle Name: Taylor Miner’s Last Name: Bottoms Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Durham County Miner’s Country: England Arrived in USA: 1/1/1924 Miner Information: Worked as a miner in England at the age of 14. Emigrated to US and settled in Luzerne, PA, living with his Aunt Isabella Williams. He was a miner for many years and an organist at Bennett Presbyterian Church for 35 years. He was married 64 years before the death of his wife. He was the best dad you could ever have asked for and is missed and loved by all who knew him. Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: Died in Luzerne of natural causes at the age of 99. Died: 6/1/1990 Birth Date: Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: Bennett Presbyterian Church, Luzerne, PA 1925 Wife’s Name: Sadie Wife’s Middle Name: Wife’s Last Name: Fussell Birth Place of Wife: Luzerne, PA Wife’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: Kingston, PA Died: 6/1/1990 Birth Date: 9/5/1907 Number of Children: 2 Child Name 1: Jean Child’s Middle Name: Shirley Child’s Last Name: Bottoms Birth Date: 6/10/1926 Child Name 2: Lorraine Child’s Middle Name: Mae Child’s Last Name: Bottoms Birth Date: 11/24/1928 Child Name 3: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 4: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 5: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 6: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: Jean Author’s Middle Name: Author’s Last Name: Brown Relationship to...
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Miner’s First Name: Jon Miner’s Middle Name: Miner’s Last Name: Krajcovicz Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Miner’s Country: Austria/Hungary Arrived in USA: 11/30/1900 Miner Information: Number 9 and 11, Lansford and Coaldale, PA Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: Non-Mining-Related Died: 1/16/1959 Birth Date: 11/30/1891 Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: Wife’s Name: Katherine Wife’s Middle Name: Wife’s Last Name: Kratky Birth Place of Wife: Coaldale, PA Wife’s Country: USA Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: Died: Birth Date: Number of Children: 3 Child Name 1: Josephine Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Krajcovicz Birth Date: Child Name 2: Julia Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Krajcovicz Birth Date: Child Name 3: Rose Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Krajcovicz Birth Date: Child Name 4: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 5: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 6: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: Jay Author’s Middle Name: Author’s Last Name: Smar Relationship to...
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Miner’s First Name: John Miner’s Middle Name: Miner’s Last Name: Dziak Miner’s Picture: Birth Place of Miner: Chotca Miner’s Country: Slovakia (once Austria-Hungary) Arrived in USA: 3/25/1906 Miner Information: I think he worked for the #9 or Barnum Colliery in the North Pittston/Duryea area. He was a Greek Catholic. He grew up in a village in the Hungarian Empire, and emigrated to America. He joked that he came to America because he "got tired of eating potatoes" (i.e., because food was inadequate and living conditions were poor in the old country); but it may have had something to do with avoiding the oppressive and corrupt Hungarian government's mandatory military draft policy. In later life he was known as a quiet, honest, kind-hearted family man who was fond of children. He was one of the founding members of St. Michael's Church in Pittston. He worked for a while early on as a "fireman." (I think this means he worked on getting hot water for the laundry room). He worked his way up to being a miner. He had difficulty reading English but was intelligent and figured out how to navigate the mine maps. He had an eye injury caused by a loose pick that he used when he was mining. For some reason he wasn't allowed to work in his usual area on one day, and had to work in another person's work area, with borrowed tools, and the pick had a loose handle. Place & Manner of Miner’s Death: Black Lung Related Died: 11/9/1966 Birth Date: 04/27/1889 Married: Yes Place Miner Was Married: Greek Catholic Church in Slabtown, PA Wife’s Name: Rosalia (also known as Helen or Veronica) Wife’s Middle Name: Wife’s Last Name: Franko Birth Place of Wife: Duryea, PA Wife’s Country: Arrived in USA: Place & Manner of Wife’s Death: West Pittston Died: 6/29/1978 Birth Date: 08/01/1895 Number of Children: 5 Child Name 1: John, Jr. Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Dziak Birth Date: 8/2/1913 Child Name 2: Andy Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Dziak Birth Date: 12/2/1914 Child Name 3: Joseph Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Dziak Birth Date: Child Name 4: Albert Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Dziak Birth Date: Child Name 5: Dorothy Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Dziak Birth Date: Child Name 6: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 7: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 8: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 9: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Child Name 10: Child’s Middle Name: Child’s Last Name: Birth Date: Author’s Name: John Joseph Author’s Middle Name: Author’s Last Name: Dziak Relationship to...
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