Barnesboro, Pennsylvania
Cambria County

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
present St. John's Church 1931 view
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 seeking any photographs of this church - even partial views! Please contact the webmaster!]

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:
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
Dudčak, Jurko

Hinkivci


Posilnŷj, Zuzana



Franko, Marija

Hinkivci


Riško, Mychal



Gula, Fedor

Krajnja Bŷstra

Breznoščak, Paraska



Horvat, Nykolaj

Krajnja Poljana




1935
St. John's
Horvat, Petro

Krajnja Poljana




1950
St. John's
Janek, Štefan

Nyžnij Komarnyk


Laca, Tereza

1926
St. John's
Jurčišyn, Tereza

Komarnyk


Vanat, Aleksander



Laca, Marija

Hinkivci


Hudak, Jurko

1933

Laca, Tereza

Hinkivci


Janek, Štefan


Posilnŷj, Zuzana

Hinkivci


Dudčak, Jurko



Riško, Jurko

Ladomyrova


Petnŷj, Marija



Riško, Mychal

Ladomyrova


Franko, Marija

1943

Šturak, Vasyl'

Krajnja Poljana

Hvozda, Marija



Tŷrko, Anna

Vŷšnij Komarnyk


Breznoščak, Aleksij




Updated August 9, 2004
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