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

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.

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…

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. ???…

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.

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