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Barnesboro, Pennsylvania
Cambria
County
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Rusyn immigrants
settled in Barnesboro around 1893. They traveled to St. Mary's
Greek Catholic Church in Ramey, Clearfield County or Sts. Peter &
Paul Greek Catholic Church in Punxsutawney for baptisms and
weddings. The Barnesboro Rusyn
community (which included those
living in nearby Spangler) founded their own parish, Saint John the
Baptist Greek Catholic Church,
in 1897. Father Kyryl Gulovyč,
OSBM, who came to Barnesboro from Ramey, became the pastor of the new
church. By the fall of 1897 a small frame church and rectory
stood on a parcel of land donated by the Barnes Coal Company. Father Gulovyč blessed the altar and
ikonostas on July 4, 1902. The church was decorated in the traditional
Rusyn style of the homeland with a floor-to-ceiling ikonostas. [Desperately
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St. John the Baptist Church was destroyed in 1924 by an accidental fire which began in the choir loft.
The present brick church was built and dedicated in 1926.
Barnesboro and the immediate vicinity represented one of the largest colonies of Rusyns from Under the Dukla in the United States.
On January 1, 2000 the boroughs of Barnesboro and Spangler consolidated, forming Northern Cambria borough.
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St. John the Baptist Church was destroyed in 1924 by an accidental fire which began in the choir loft.
The present brick church was built and dedicated in 1926.
Barnesboro and the immediate vicinity represented one of the largest colonies of Rusyns from Under the Dukla in the United States.
On January 1, 2000 the boroughs of Barnesboro and Spangler consolidated, forming Northern Cambria borough.
Listing of Rusyn immigrants from Under the Dukla
KEY:
Click the immigration year to view the ship manifest (if available).
Click the photograph
to view a photo of the person (if available).
Click the US flag to
view the person's naturalization documents (if
available).
Click the cemetery
cross to view the person's gravestone (if available).
Persons living in this community at some time are listed; they may also be listed in other US communities.
Date of death is given only if the person died while living in this area or is buried in a local cemetery.
Birthplace data is generally from church records but also from naturalization documents, fraternal organization records, and ship manifests.
Names of persons are spelled according to Rusyn-language standards and in the dialectal form of the person's region of origin. Surname spellings are transliterated from the Cyrillic alphabet as given in Mykola Duichak, Antroponimiia Priashivshchyny (Prešov, 2003) which are the authentic Rusyn-language form of the surnames.
Name in (parentheses) indicates the name by which the person was known in the United States (usually, as indicated on gravestones).
| Residence(s) | Cemeteries |
| B = Barnesboro NB = North Barnesboro S = Spangler SB = St. Benedict M = Mosscreek / Marsteller E = Emeigh |
St. John's = St. John the Baptist Greek Cath., North
Barnesboro St. Mary's = St. Mary's Greek Cath., Spangler |
Click the immigration year to view the ship manifest (if available).
Click the photograph
to view a photo of the person (if available).Click the US flag to
view the person's naturalization documents (if
available).Click the cemetery
cross to view the person's gravestone (if available).Persons living in this community at some time are listed; they may also be listed in other US communities.
Date of death is given only if the person died while living in this area or is buried in a local cemetery.
Birthplace data is generally from church records but also from naturalization documents, fraternal organization records, and ship manifests.
Names of persons are spelled according to Rusyn-language standards and in the dialectal form of the person's region of origin. Surname spellings are transliterated from the Cyrillic alphabet as given in Mykola Duichak, Antroponimiia Priashivshchyny (Prešov, 2003) which are the authentic Rusyn-language form of the surnames.
Name in (parentheses) indicates the name by which the person was known in the United States (usually, as indicated on gravestones).
| NAME |
BIRTH
DATE |
BIRTHPLACE |
PARENTS |
YEAR
IMM. |
SPOUSE(S) |
RESI- DENCE |
DIED |
CEMETERY |
| Breniš, Tereza |
1888? |
Prykra |
Breniš,
Jan Šturak, Anna |
1906? |
Chromoho,
Mychal |
M,
B |
1977 |
St.
John's |
| Chromoho, Mychal (Cromo, Michael) |
1888? |
Krajnja
Poljana |
Chromoho,
Jan Litvak, Suzana |
1906? |
Breniš,
Tereza |
M,
B |
1944 |
St.
John's |
| Chromoho, Nykolaj (Hromoko, Nicholas) |
Krajnja
Poljana |
Semanc'o,
Helena |
1935 |
St.
John's |
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| Dudčak, Jurko |
Hinkivci |
Posilnŷj, Zuzana |
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| Franko, Marija |
Hinkivci |
Riško, Mychal |
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| Gula, Fedor |
Krajnja Bŷstra | Breznoščak, Paraska |
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| Horvat, Nykolaj |
Krajnja
Poljana |
1935 |
St.
John's |
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| Horvat, Petro |
Krajnja
Poljana |
1950 |
St.
John's |
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| Janek,
Štefan |
Nyžnij Komarnyk |
Laca, Tereza |
1926 |
St. John's |
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| Jurčišyn, Tereza |
Komarnyk |
Vanat, Aleksander |
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| Laca, Marija |
Hinkivci |
Hudak,
Jurko |
1933 |
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| Laca, Tereza |
Hinkivci |
Janek, Štefan | ||||||
| Posilnŷj, Zuzana |
Hinkivci |
Dudčak, Jurko |
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| Riško, Jurko |
Ladomyrova |
Petnŷj, Marija |
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| Riško, Mychal |
Ladomyrova |
Franko, Marija |
1943 |
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| Šturak, Vasyl' |
Krajnja Poljana | Hvozda, Marija |
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| Tŷrko, Anna |
Vŷšnij Komarnyk |
Breznoščak, Aleksij |
Updated August 9, 2004
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