I am looking to find out how this Mary Anna Cilcus fits into my family tree. A few years later the Slovaks came to the same area, and they wandered around Monongahela looking They were the parents of my husband’s mother, Brone (Bernice) Levinskaite Tamkus. Thank you! I enjoyed reading your article. Over 15 billion tons of crumbling ruins, people still live in these towns in homes built by the coal The openings are referred to as rooms or entries. One was born in Vilnius, the other in Kona. I remember the floods as a youngster , but most of all , I remember our heritage …. However, Lithuanian inscriptions, Lithuanian history-inspired church interiors and exteriors still remain where the churches are still used for religious purposes. There is a surviving Lithuanian club in Osceola Mills. Recent trends include a decline in the large high-extraction room-and-pillar mining operations, and some increase in small room-and-pillar operations that utilize continuous haulage. (I am Her father would have been born in Lithuania but she was born in Pennsylvania. Helen, Jean Louis, Alma,Gustane, Michael Or John (He was known as both) and Martha. Finally someone told me that this was actually a Polish church, and that St. Pius X was Until the maturation of modern longwall mining in the 1960s, Pennsylvania's underground bituminous coal production came almost exclusively from room-and-pillar mines. This story was told by the priest at St. Anthony during an Italian language mass I attended there in 2004. I think the name my recent contact (2020) was Rima and she was from Chicago…. 82 000-strong it is also the second largest in the USA. Zipatlas is one example – click here for a list of top US localities by Lithuanian percentage for instance (2001 census). "I was baptized there, made my first communion there and was confirmed there," said Zoltan Toth. I have records and files to send you. Room-and-pillar mines have been active in Pennsylvania's bituminous coalfields since the late-1700s. In 1992 Pennsylvania produced only 65 million tons of (This article appeared in the Uniontown Herald-Standard in 2002. Dec 1946 — name listed as Mary A. Mulford I ama looking for family of Olga Samulevich . surpassed it in 1930. Now, in Pittsburgh and across the nation, many of those old ethnic churches are gone, and parishioners worry their cultural past could be lost.

In Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood, Immaculate Heart of Mary still serves the ethnic community, a Mass being said in Polish at 8 a.m. every Sunday. Joseph Lakisky Father – Walter Paul A few months later the Diocese of Greensburg closed the Transfiguration church The Coal Region is marked in red, while the major concentrations of Lithuanians are written in green. Her Dad’s 2nd wife was Martha Jonvsionis had children of her own and we suspect this is the reason her a Dad wound up in orphanage. extracted. I am looking for extended family.. surpassed it in 1930. It should be noted that Lithuanian church attendances were growing until at least 1980, contrary to regional trends.

She married my grandfather, Mathias Alikonis in the Wilkes Barre area in 1914. Pittsburgh).

ROADS). and Coke Heritage Center in Uniontown, Pa., and finally at the Windber Coal Heritage Center. No one really cares. I found a photo of her and the dance group sent to me a few years ago. looking for anyone related to Anna Karpavich (lithuanian Ona Karpaviciute or Karpaviciene). No church would welcome them, so the bishop in Pittsburgh directed the Saint Anthony church to take the Slovaks in. Must be a Pennsylvania thing. Julija. there. About 1895-1910 two brothers Stanislovas (Stanley) and *the name is unknown* ABROMAVIČIAI came to Pennsylvania to work in coal mines. Its primary uses are for electricity generation and metal production.

PA was the No. 31 Jul 2002 — name listed as Mary Mulford. Why this combination? My family settled in Mahanoy City, Pa about 1900. Death date – 21 Jul 2002, Notes: Pleasant, PA. Yet another major Lithuanian area in Pennsylvania is located in Pittsburgh, where the Coal Region coal used to be turned into steel. There are lavish Lithuanian churches built of the hard-earned money by the early settlers and large Lithuanian cemeteries with their typical massive tombstones.