Weber/Veber

I have very little on this line, but I'm putting up what I have...
(A lot of info is still being confirmed, so let me know if you know different.) With a little sleuthing, I believe that the family came from the southeastern part of what is now Slovakia...

Last modified 07/22/2005

Weber/Veber

Andrew Weber (to US at some point?), m. Anna Adamchezk [info from Sally Weber]

Children: (order unknown, sources - George Vajda, Helen Weber)
Andrew "Andy", b. ~1880, imm. 1900, m. ~1899 in "old country" Verona who was b. ~1882 and imm. 1904 with baby Bill . In 1910, he was the proprietor of a saloon and the family was living at 2257 Broadway. [1910 Census] He d. 22 Feb 1941 and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland. She d. before 1941.

Children:
William E. "Bill", b. ~1900 in "old country", m. Augusta Tomcany, d. 21 Feb 1956
Emil C., b. ~1905 in OH, m. Helen Kaschak. He d. 18 Jun 1992, Solon. They had Vern, Eugene, Mark and William.

Joseph "Joe" "Jozsef" , b. ~1881 or 1882, imm. at least twice 1898-1900 and had as his destination 54 Commercial Ave. in Cleveland to live with his father and brother (the address was listed as a tenement in 1898, and is located in the Cleveland Flats due south of Jacobs Field.) [see www.ellisisland.org for Jozsef Veber and Sanborn Maps for Cleveland] and naturalized 1905, m. ~1903 Anna "Annie" who herself imm. 1902 and was also naturalized in 1905. They lived at 2329 Broadway in 1910 (at the corner of Broadway and what was then E. 23rd St., in a corner store) and at 10323 Union Avenue (at the corner of E. 104th and Union, again in a corner store) in Cleveland, OH in 1920 (she was living there at her death notice publication on 28 Jun 1949.) In 1910 Joe Sr. was the proprietor of a saloon, and by 1920 Joe Jr. had joined him as a bartender. [1910, 1920 Census]

Children:
Joseph Jr. b. ~1903,
Andrew b. ~1911
Mary b. ~1912

Anna, b. ~1888, imm. 1910, m. 26 Sep 1911 in Cuyahoga Co. OH John Gerda. After John Gerda's death, Anna remaried to George H. Horrocks and lived at 9903 Robinson Ave. She died Sunday, 1 Feb 1948; funeral service at Saints Peter & Paul's Church on Turney Road in Garfield Heights, and was buried at Calvary Cemetery on 4 Feb. See Gerda page for additional information and their descendants.
Emil, b. ~1892. He imm. in 1907 and was single and living with his brother Joe & family at 2329 Broadway in 1910. At that time, he was working as a carpenter. [1910 Census] May have been the Emil Weber who died suddenly 13 Aug 1916 at 10323 Union Ave.[Information from Shawn Sheridan, themightyquinn5753@cox.net, suggests that Emil m. Mary Duracinsky and had one child, Mary Ann Weber, b. 1912, all lived at 2269 Criegton.]
Mary, to US
John, m. , baptism sponsor to John Andrew Gerda

Children:
Emil, m. Sally?

Mike, to US
Veronica, stayed in the "old country"
Steve, stayed in the "old country"
Frank , stayed in the "old country"

My On-line Geographic Adventure:

Keczer-Pecklen is the residence listed for Jozsef in the Ellis Island ship manifests. It is also the town name given to my grandmother by Helen Kaschak Weber in January 1992 as the ancestral home of the Webers.

Keczer-Peklen is the Hungarian name of the town, but given it's region, it is now know by its Slovak name, which is Kecerovske Pekl'any (I found this on a Jewish genealogy page.) Using the latter name as a search term in Google, we can find the town on the list at the On-Line Encyclopedia of Slovakia, (c. 1944) at LAT 48 deg, 50' 00"N and LONG 21 deg, 25' 00" E, and a map of the area at the link to NM34-11. If you then go to www.mapquest.com and put the lat/long into the search engine, you can see a pretty exact mapping. Cool, huh?

For some intersting Slovak heritage info, go to Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy Research Pages

.Since there aren't all THAT many Slovaks, I guess this means I'm a cousin to Jesse Ventura...