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The bride's background: Helen Kudrick is born in Cranberry, West Hazleton, PA. on Saturday, March 16, 1901. Her parents, in church records, are listed as Alexius, aka Alex, Kudrick and Anna Scšur. Helen is baptized and confirmed on Sunday, March 24, 1901 by Rev. Orestes Zloczky in St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church in Hazleton, PA.. Also in attendance at Helen's baptism are family friends Andrew Velyki and Helen Stefan. Helen Kudrick lives in Cranberry from birth until 1916 when her family moves to 19 West Cranberry Avenue in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania. She lives at 19 West Cranberry Avenue until her marriage to Andrew McDeshen on Saturday, May 10, 1919.
Helen is the fourth child of Anna Scšur to marry and the first child of Alex Kudrick to marry. Previously, Anna Scšur II marries John Mudry in 1909, John Bartko marries Anna Slebodnick in 1914 and Mary Bartko marries John Kelhart in 1916.
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The groom, Andrew Mikitisin, is born in Austria-Hungary on Monday, October 21, 1895 and emigrates to America in 1905. Click here for more on Andrew McDeshen.
Less than two months after Andrew McDeshen is furloughed from the Army, he and Helen Kudrick are married. Both being of the Greek Catholic faith, they are married at St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church in Hazleton, Pennsylvania by Rev. John Fekula. The two witnesses to their marriage are Joannes Mudry and Joannes Donchau. Joannes Mudry is both Andrew McDeshen's cousin and Helen Kudrick's brother-in-law while Joannes Donchau is a good friend. Prior to their marriage, Helen is living with her parents in Cranberry and Andrew is living with his parents in Oneida.
St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church records reveal interesting information regarding the bride and groom and their families. First of all, Helen Kudrick's name is written as Helena Kudrik where once again the "c" is missing in the surname. Click here for more information on the variations in the Kudrick surname spelling. Helen's parents names are written as Elias Kudrik (aka Alex Kudrick) and Anna Schur (aka Anna Scšur). The groom's name is written as Andreas Mikitishin, his birth surname which he officially changed to McDeshen while a member of the U. S. Army.
Helen attends the Cranberry School system starting in 1907. Later she works in local shirt factories helping with the finances at home. In addition, she is very useful at home as she helps her mother with housework and daily chores in and around the Kudrick home.
Helen is excited when, at age 8, her older sister, Anna Scšur II marries John Mudry because she gets to go to the wedding party. Five years later, at age 13, she attends her older brother's wedding when John Bartko marries Anna Slebodnick. By age 15, she is well aware of boys and the attention they give her so she thoroughly enjoys her sister Mary Bartko's wedding to John Kelhart. It is also around this time that Helen pleads with her mother to allow her to go to dances in Hazle Park with her girl friends. Her mother, Anna, sometimes reluctantly agrees, but with a specified time to be home.
George Kelhart, son of the elder John Kelhart and Helen Scšur is born in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. He is the 11th and last child born to the Kelhart Family of Hellertown. All eleven Kelhart children are cousins of the Bartko and Kudrick children of Cranberry.
Anna Scšur Kudrick notices that as a result of the war, items such as food, fuel and clothing are in short supply. She also notices that, as a result, some hoarding and black-market profiteering of these items occur among her neighbors and friends in Cranberry and West Hazleton.
Anti-Russian sentiment sweeps the United States. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer directs the Federal FBI Agency to round up known communists, who are then deported to Finland. In addition, 34 states enact statues outlawing the display of the Russian Red flag.
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For some reason, a wedding picture of Andrew McDeshen and Helen Kudrick does not exist . Eleanor McDeshen Nutter, informed me that her father either did not allow a wedding photograph to be taken or did not purchase a wedding picture if one was taken. Hence, I selected to use the two individual photographs above which capture the personality of both at a relatively young age. The photographs are circa 1941 at which time Andrew is 45 years old and Helen is 40 years of age. The photos are taken at the home of Helen's sister, Elizabeth Kudrick Koneyak, at Wilson Point Rd. in Middle River, Baltimore County, Maryland.
As a result of Helen Kudrick's marriage, the number of Kudrick children left living at home (19 West Cranberry Avenue) is reduced to five. The Kudrick children still living at home are Michael age 20, Elizabeth age 16, Joseph age 13, Anna age 11 and Susan age 7. Helen's parents at home are her mother Anna Scšur Kudrick 51 years old and her father, Alex Kudrick who is 48 years old.
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During 1919, Oregon becomes the first state to tax gasoline. I am sure that it didn't take Maryland long to jump on this taxing "band wagon." States also rapidly ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages (the minimum, 0.5% alcohol), to take effect in 1920. Appearing to be far fetched, Robert Goddard proposes using rockets to send a vehicle to the moon. In baseball, Ty Cobb wins his 12th batting title.
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created within the corporate world while out in Hollywood, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin form a movie company and call it "United Artists." In Washington D. C., the United States Congress incorporates the American Legion. Many members of the Kudrick Family were and still are members of the American Legion.
Hit songs during the year include "Swanee" and "Rose of Washington Square." However, anticipating Prohibition people are writing such tunes as: "You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea" and "What'll We Do on a Saturday Night When the Town Goes Dry?" Interestingly, a nationwide study reveals that the public condemns saloons but resents the prohibition amendment. Those not arguing about Prohibition are kept busy reading "All the Brothers Were Valiant," by Ben Williams and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," by V. Blasco Ibanez.
The attorney general brings an injunction to halt a United Mine Workers strike. There is anti strike sentiment in the country especially the big cities which they feel their luxury of life via home heating supplies threatened.
For the first time our ancestors see a purple 3¢ Victory postage stamp, the Communist Party of America, RCA, KLM, Bentley, UCLA, dial telephone and an illustrated tabloid newspaper. But, this year they also see, for the last time, the personalities of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Theodore Roosevelt and F. W. Woolworth.
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