My maternal great grandmother - Helena ( Maslyck (pronounced Moss-wick )) Geffert - mother of Mary Barbara (Geffert) Raykovitz, lived in Georgetown ( Wilkes-Barre Township ) as is buried in the old St. Mary's of the Maternity Church cemetery...only a few hundred feet from the family homestead on Center Street. She died in October 1916 at the age of 53. Her brother-in-law, Andrew and his wife, Katherine, are also buried in the same cemetery. Per a prior post, her husband - Frank Geffert - is buried in the newer St. Mary's of the Maternity Cemetery in West Wyoming, as he died 21 years after Helena in 1937.
Above: Geffert family pic circa ~1902
L to R - Helena, Frank ( holding Josephine ) and Andrew Geffert
Back Row: L to R - Sally H., John and Mary B. Geffert
Lat: 41.223546 Long: -75.873611
Above/below: Location/pics of old St. Mary's Cemetery.
Above/below: Helena (Maslyck) Geffert's gravestone
Above: View of St. Patrick's ( now St. Andrew's ) Church on Parrish Street
Below: The Geffert family homestead on Center Street.
More to follow.
I hope that Author of this blog still checks it. I'm a distant relative of Adamczyk family (of Sally Geffert's husband John) from Poland. I have figured out the exact place (even exact house) from which Geffert family came from - where Frank and Andrew were born. If you're intrested in more details, feel free to contact me, I will happily share this discovery with actual Geffert descendants.
ReplyDeleteI do check it...and thanks for your comment. My email address is djw444@gmail.com I look forward to hearing from you.
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