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Susan Crayne's Blog – June 2014 Archive (5)

Unknown Hungarian relative: Picture of the week 6/21/14

Update:  On the back of this photo there is writing in Hungarian that says:With loving memories to my godfather and family, Emma and it's dated 1955.

Added by Susan Crayne on June 21, 2014 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Unknown Hungarian relative: Picture of the week 6/15/14

This is Frank Mattes a photographer in Philadelphia, PA.  He was born 14 Jul 1881 in Vesprod, Bacs-Bodrog, Hungary,  he came to the US in 1906 and was naturalized in 1914.  He married Magdalena "Lena" Teufel and they had a son names Frank Jr who was born in 1912 but died in 1915, and a daughter Anna Helen Mattes, born in 24 Jan 1917 who was still single and living at home in 1940.  The last record I have found on Frank is his 1942 WWII draft card and he…

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Added by Susan Crayne on June 15, 2014 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Picture may be of my great-grandmother

The woman in the middle of this picture may be Ester Stella Liska Peto....my great-grandma.  On the back, very faintly, it says Mrs. Peto.  I think she is surrounded by coal miners and I wonder if one of them near her might be her son John Peto who was killed in a mining accident in 1927. ???…

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Added by Susan Crayne on June 8, 2014 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Unknown Hungarian relative: Picture of the week 6/8/14

This picture was taken in McKeesport, PA possibly in the early 1920s.  On the back it looks like it says Mrs. Andy Burebiak but it's very faint.

Added by Susan Crayne on June 8, 2014 at 3:17pm — No Comments

My great grandparent's wedding picture

Taken in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, NJ in November 1905.  John Peto and Esther Liska.

Added by Susan Crayne on June 5, 2014 at 8:17pm — No Comments

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