FOREWORD

GENEALOGY OF THE BUZONAS, LEPTINSKY AND LUX FAMILIES

The compiling of this Genealogy was begun one year after my retirement in 1982. The start was the location and photographing of all known Headstones at the St. Joseph cemetery at Hopwood, Pa. And also the Oak Grove / Oak Lawn sites in Uniontown, Pa.

A search was conducted at that time in the St. Mary's and the adjoining Park's cemeteries located on Route 119 North of Uniontown, Pa. The only family members were of the Lux family at Park's.

Numerous revisions were made during the course of the years. With good copies made in 1988, again in 1993 and at the present time in 1995.

The work was sporadic due to other projects throughout those years. My ten years of Consulting Work and two years of full employment at the former Republic Steel Banning Mine Water & Treatment Plants. Interspersed at that time was extensive work for a Research Manuscript of Fayette County's Coal and Coke History.

Those hours of research covered the locations of Coal Mines, Coke oven sites and many Coal Patch towns with accompanying maps, photos and other verifying information. This was pursued and given to Dr. Maher, a well known and respected medical doctor; and Buzz Storey a local historian and Newspaper man both of Uniontown, Pa. Also to the Fayette Campus of Penn State University for their future Coal and Coke Museum if it comes to fruition.

By your scribe: R. E. Buzonas

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GENEALOGY INDEX - Volume I & II

(Robert Buzonas MASTER BOOK Volumes I & II)

Topic	Pages
Foreword	A, 1-2
Korwin History - Poland Records by Mr. Edward Morofsky	3-4
Korwin History - Translation into English	5
Mary Regula Tree Chart - First Marriage	6
Lipcryeiska - Tilka (Tirka) Tree Chart	7-8
Baptismal Records - Europe	9-10
Baptismal Records - Europe Translation	11-12
Births and Deaths - November 1988	13-14
Anniversaries - April 1995 (#1-4)	15-18
Anniversaries - April 1995 (Zosky)	19
Births and Deaths - 1988 (#11A-12A)	20-21
Family History (#15-18)	22-25
Family Miscellaneous Information (#1-3)	26-29
Family Miscellaneous Information (#4-5)	30-31
Short History of Lithuania - Grolier Publishing	32
Correspondence Exchanges	33-36
Residences of the Buzonas Families	37
Military Service - Buzonas Families	39
Military Service - Robert E. Buzonas @ Chanute Field Ill	40-46
Military Service - Robert and Clarence Buzonas	47
Military Service - Robert E. Buzonas @ Ripon College Wisconsin	48-54
Service Record - Robert E. Buzonas	55
Service Record - Donald R. Buzonas	57-58
Service Record - Joseph Lipchinsky	59-62
Genealogy Charts and Letter - Edward Morofsky	63-75
Documents - Citizenship of Joseph Bozonas Sr	76-77
Documents - Baptism Certificate, Stanislaus (Stanley) Bozonas	78
Documents - Army Discharge, Stanley Bozonas	79-81
Documents - Birth & Death, Stanley Bozonas	82-83
Documents - Baptism Certificate, Anastasia Liptinsky Buzonas	84
Documents - Catherine Liptinsky Nebraska	85
Documents - Enlistment / Discharge, John Nebraska	86-87
Documents - Death Certificates, John Nebraska	88-89
Documents - Grave Sites Purchase, Napieieralska	90
Documents - Marriage Licenses, Mary Lipczinski	91
Documents - Death Certificate, Charles Lepchinsky	92
Documents - Stanley Bozonas Instructions 1964	93
Documents - Jennie Buzonas Burial, Johnson	94
VOLUME II
World War II: Fred Burns (Boy Scout, Friend & Neighbor)	1-4
Wartime Correspondence - Comrades and Friends	5-24
Eberhard Stevens - Austrian POW at Vint Hill Farm	25-26
Special Orders (R. Buzonas) - Feb. 16, 1944 to Camp Crowder	27-28
Original Documents and Papers	29-38
Occupations of Family Members	39-46
Correspondence - Genealogy Research 1988-1995	47-58
Language in use for W. Pa. & W.Va.	59
Compositions and Poetry during World War II	61-64
Cemetery Locations Graph	65-66
Burial Plot Headstone Photographs	67-72
Death Prayer Cards	73-80
Genealogy Of Lux Family	81-82
Duplicate/Spare Copies of Information	83+

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Family Miscellaneous Information

BUZONAS:

Grandfather Buzonas and the oldest son, Stanley went by spelling of their names as Bozonas. Other spellings may have been Bozonis and Boyono.

Grandmother Buzonas' maiden name was Anna Piechowski, but all called her (Jennie). The English spelling was Pehosky.

The Country of Lithuania was under Russian rule at the time our Grandfather left the country. All young males upon reaching the age of 17 or 18 were required to serve in the Russian military. At that age, the military arrived at the family farm, and Grandfather jumped out of the kitchen window and took off for America, with little or no money and only the clothes on his back. He entered this country by way of Canada, and made his way in time to Mount Pleasant, Pa. Later on he was one of the Founders who helped to build the Transfiguration Catholic Church there, and later moved on to the small town called Mower, south of Connellsville and then to Phillips. His work, as well as his oldest son Stanley, was the Coke Ovens in those locations.

My Grandfather's first girl friend was from the Sparrow family who had a farm on the outskirts of Star Junction. A friend of his was dating Anna (Jennie) Pehosky. Later they both admitted that they liked the other's girl...so they then traded girl friends, who they later married and remained close friends throughout the years.

LEPTINSKY:

John Leptinsky and Mike Lepchinsky were born in Poland and it is possible that the oldest daughter; Mary, may have also been born there too.

Grandmother Tilka / Tirka was born in Austria. She also had a sister whose name was Victoria Dzik (Juke), who is buried in the St Joseph Cemetery, Hopwood, Pa.

After the death of her husband Albert, she managed or worked at a Boarding House at Oliver, Pa. The 1920 Census records indicate... Dist 21, Enumerator 63, Page 8, Line 87 from film at the Uniontown Library. The number of the Boarding House was #156 and she tended to 3 Lithuanians and 1 Polish immigrants. The actual home of the family was number #217 where she raised an assortment of cattle and small farm animals.

In the Census listed in the above paragraph, in North Union Twp, John Leptinsky is listed under D21, E63, P12A, Line 12 and showed Sophia, his wife, immigrated here in 1907.

Victoria Juke is listed under D21 E63 P12B as having immigrated in 1887. She had 3 sons, 2 daughters, 1 brother and 6 boarders at house #228.

Uncle John Leptinsky and Aunt Sophia had two children that died as babies, and the girl was named Nellie and the boy Stanley. Whether they were twins or separate births is unknown.

It is believed that two of the daughters decided, as a remembrance, to take their names and in their memories to continue their existence. Anastasia Liptinsky Buzonas chose (Nellie) and her older sister Stephanie Leptinsky Kudyba selected (Stanley).

However, Anastasia Buzonas, is listed as Stanislawa under her Civil marriage license ..... the feminine of Stanley? The Church marriage license also list her as Stanislawa for June 1921?

• Civil - Nellie H. Stanislawa Leptanski
• Church - Stanislawa Lipcryeiska

Her baptism by Father Kenna, St. John R.C. Church, Uniontown, Pa on Oct 8th 1898 listed as Anastasia Lipkinsky... and parents as Albert Lipkinsy... and Mary Tirka.

Other papers in my file show the additional names; Court Trial, 1931, Grandmother as Mary Leptunsky; Indenture, 09-18-1924, as Mary Missus. A marriage license, wed John Missus whose first wife died 01-03-1919. The Ceremony was on 09-14-1920 at Cardale Church by Rev. Father H. Radwanski. A divorce later occurred either in the late 1920's or early 1930's.

Mike Lepchinsky married Mary Regula Wisiewicz 02-19-1917 at the Transfiguration Church of Mount Pleasant, Pa.

Charles Lepchinsky married Anna Vrable of Sharon, Pa. Her parents were: Father - George Vrable (Austria, Slovakia). Mother - Johanna Melcher (Austria, Slovakia).

Verification of spellings, names, children etc. can be researched in the records of United States Censuses for the Counties of Fayette, Greene, and Westmoreland.

Information listed as of April 1995. By Robert E. Buzonas

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Albert Lipczynski

Arrived in USA at Philadelphia, Pa on 12-26-1882 at the age of 25 years. Naturalization papers 06-10-1891. He and his two sons John and Mike worked on Lake Erie, and later came to Brownfield, Pa and worked on the coal yards and Coke Ovens in and around the area of Brownfield Mine.

Mary Regula

Her father was a Sheriff in Europe and lived on a large family farm. She arrived via the St Lawrence River into Canada at the age of 16 years and later on to Cleveland, Ohio. Her first husband was Edward Misicwicz whose children were:

• Sophia who married Joseph Payson: Both interned at Sylvan Heights cemetery.
• Stella who married Joseph Borytsky: Both interned at St Joseph Cemetery.

Mike Lipchinsky

Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary lived in the following communities: Hecla / Grindstone / Allison / Nemacolin and they operated a grocery store in Republic with living quarters above the store.

Locations of the Buzonas & Leptinsky families in Europe (Lithuania and Poland):

• Grandfather Buzonas stated that the bloodlines were: Lithuania, Prussian and Russian.
• In the Liptinsky family - the bloodlines were: Polish (Albert) and Austrian (Mary).

Information listed as of May 1995.

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OCCUPATIONS

Males

Generation	Name	Occupation
First	Joseph Buzonas	Europe/Farming, America/Coke works
	Albert Lipcryeiska	Europe/Farm, River?, America/Coal Mines
Second	Joseph Buzonas Jr.	Insurance - Metropolitan Agent
	Stanley Buzonas	Cokeworks and School Maintenance
	Benjamin Buzonas	Department Store and Steelworker
	John Leptinsky	Coal Mines
	Mike Lepchinsky	Grocery Proprietor and Coal Mines
	Charles Lepchinsky	Coal Mines and Musician
	John Nebraska	Grocery Proprietor
	Joseph Kudyba	Coal Mines
Third	Robert Buzonas	Chemist and Coal Preparation Engineer
	Clarence Buzonas	Proprietor - Vendor and Television Repair
	Donald Buzonas	Pa. State Highway - Surveyor and Management
	Joseph Leptinsky	Coal Mines
	Frank Leptinsky	Vendor - Produce
	Charles Leptinsky	Vendor - Steelworker - Motel Owner & Proprietor
	Walter Leptinsky	Steel - Machinist
	Edward Leptinsky	Chemist with PhD. Degree - United States Steel
	Joseph Lepchinsky	Military Career - Navy (Ret.)
	Bernard Lepchinsky	Coal Mines and Steel
	Walter Lepchinsky	Coal Mines - Foreman
	Richard Lepchinsky	Patent Attorney
	Glenn Sproull	Utilities - Water Company Foreman
	Larry Homa	Grocery - Manager
	Richard Caliguiri	Proprietor - Dairy Store
	Joseph Hatala	Coal Mines - Foreman
	Steve Hoist	Coal Mines - Foreman
	Ernest Brown	State Highway Dept
	Gerald Meiner	State Highway Dept - Materials Division
	Edward Morofsky	Canadian Govt. - PhD. Degree
	John Hughes	Trucking and Chauffeur
Fourth	Steve Bruder	Proprietor - Sales Representative
	James Buzonas	Short Order Cook and Story Writer
	Mark Leptinsky	Engineer

Females

Generation	Name	Occupation
First	Jennie Buzonas	Housewife
	Mary Lipcryeiska	Manager - Boarding House & Housewife
Second	Frances Stemnock	Housewife
	Helen Shellenberg	Housewife
	Clara McNally	Housewife
	Marie Bokis	Housewife
	Sophia Leptinsky	Housewife
	Mary Lepchinsky	Housewife and Grocer
	Stephanie Kudyba	Housewife
	Anastasia Buzonas	Housewife & Hospital Cafe worker
	Catherine Nebraska	Housewife - Grocer - Organist & Hospital Cook
	Anna Lepchinsky	Housewife
Third	Diana Buzonas	Housewife & Technician - Scaife Co (Korean War)
	Betty Buzonas	Housewife & Teacher
	Patricia Buzonas	Housewife - Beautician - and Dairy Store Proprietor
	Harriet Emmanuele	Housewife
	Agnes Sproull	Housewife & Head Cook - Krese 5 & 10 Store
	Ann Carey	Housewife & Maitre - Hotel Webster; Pgh, Pa
	Lottie Hona	Housewife
	Louise Rose	Housewife
	Helen Reh	Housewife
	Katherine Jenoway	Housewife
	Joanna Leptinsky	Housewife and Secretary
	Arlayne Lepchinsky	Housewife
	Edith Caliguiri	Housewife & Proprietor - Dairy Store
	Irene Lepchinsky	Housewife
	Betty Hoist	Housewife
	Marie (Marge) Lepchinsky	Housewife
	Marie Hatalla	Housewife
	Betty Lepchinsky	Housewife
	Marlene Lepchinsky	Housewife and Legal Secretary

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