Post by ladysleuth on Aug 19, 2012 10:40:11 GMT -6
My husband's great grandfather was a John Scorby who came to Washington state and then Coquille, Oregon by 1909. He married Rose Ann McGurty and then Jessie Arenia Ricketts. He died in Coquille in 1950. He left no papers and provided no clues as to his parents or any other family. His WWII draft registration and his death record both indicate his date of birth to be January 8, 1886 in Streator. Prior to 1920, on census records, and on his WWI draft registration he claims to have been born in Austria-Hungary.
However, recently I was given information from someone at St. Michael's Parish in Streator (formerly St. Stephen's) that John Scorby (Scherba) and Mary Bartko Scorby had a son named John on December 9, 1886. That is the only birth she found matching John Scorby in 1886.
More recently, I discovered another family in Streator - Andrew and Mary Sabol - who lived on Union Street in 1900 and had a son John born in Austria-Hungary in January 1886. The other children on the 1900 census (six others) would easily fit the oldest children, along with John, in the photograph we have. I believe there are more children added after 1900, so this is a possibility, though I don't know why the name change.
The attached photograph is really the only physical evidence of his past that he left. It would be so helpful if someone recognized the people and we might finally be able to put him in a family in Streator.
However, recently I was given information from someone at St. Michael's Parish in Streator (formerly St. Stephen's) that John Scorby (Scherba) and Mary Bartko Scorby had a son named John on December 9, 1886. That is the only birth she found matching John Scorby in 1886.
More recently, I discovered another family in Streator - Andrew and Mary Sabol - who lived on Union Street in 1900 and had a son John born in Austria-Hungary in January 1886. The other children on the 1900 census (six others) would easily fit the oldest children, along with John, in the photograph we have. I believe there are more children added after 1900, so this is a possibility, though I don't know why the name change.
The attached photograph is really the only physical evidence of his past that he left. It would be so helpful if someone recognized the people and we might finally be able to put him in a family in Streator.
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