My great-grandfather, the Socialist?

My great-great grandmother loved to write in letters to Slovene Catholic newspapers in America. It seems that the family may have had some heated political discussions back in the 1920s, though, since I’ve discovered my great-grandfather may have dabbled in Socialism.

1912 Explosion in Ralphton

In what may be the strangest genealogy bit yet, I recently discovered that my great-great grandparents had two children I’d never heard of - and the reason I’d never heard of them is that they died in a gunpowder explosion on 4 November 1912!

My great-grandmother’s obituary (in Slovene)

I was poking around on a Slovene archive site the other week and randomly lucked out - I found the obituary of my great-grandmother Antonia Zemljak in American Slovene, an immigrant newspaper out of Chicago. She and her husband Frank were the first Pozuns of my family to come to America; she died first, and so was the first to be buried in this country.

Research Notes

My great-grandfather, the Socialist?

1912 Explosion in Ralphton

My great-grandmother’s obituary (in Slovene)