This is the earliest record that can be found for Frank.
Franks date of birth is shown as October 16 1894. But, his death certificate shows October 17, 1897. His tomdstone simply indicates that he was born in 1898. Frank's oldest son Edward provided the information for the death certificate and thus is probably the most credible date. Which would make him about 21 years old when he was inducted.
It's unlikely he saw any action in World War I since hostilities ended about two monthths after he got to Europe.
Frank experienced every draftee's dream... he was discharged about one year before being inducxted.
Scepticism is a required tool when dealing with ancestry records.
In August 1925 Frank is working in a coal mine and is injured. A "loader boss" is not an official title, but it does imply that Frank was the supervisor of a group of miners responsioble for loading coal cars.
This 1930 Census listing shows Laura 27, and Frank 32, being married with three children, Edward 8, Jossephene 6, and Regina 2.
There is no newspaper account of Laura and Frank's wedding. Based on son Edward's age of 8 in 1930, Laura and Frank were married about 1921, or when Laura was about 17 or 18 and a year or so after Frank was discharged from the army.
The family was living at 43 South Spruce Street in Mount Carmel. The census indicates that Frank is a merchant in a general store. The store was located 619 East 4th Street and connected to their home in an "L" shaped configuration. The store was their major source of income for most of their lives.
In 1933 Pennsylvania instituted its liquor control laws which which prohibited the sale of liquor except through state run stores. In September of 1938 Frank ignored the law and paid the price for doing so.
This 1940 Census is unfortunately quite fuzzy. The family grew by one additional child, Mathew at 9. The other kids are Regina 12, Josephine 16 and the oldest Edward, 18.
Frank is listed as being a Truck Driver. Perhaps a depression era necessity to supplement the reduced income from their grocery store.
The family still resides in their Mount Carmel Spruce Street home.
August 24, 1942. Regina and Mathew are admitted to a hospital on the same day. Auto accident???? Regina would have been about 14 and Mathew a few years younger. If it was a car accident it's unlikely that either of them would have been the driver.
By 1950 The daughters had married and were living in Philadelphia. Regina married Chauncey Spering and Josephine, an exceptional acordianist, married Edwin Spering. Josephine later married a second time, to George Smar, likely because of a divorce.
Mathew, the youngest at 18 was working in a garment factory
Edward married a strikingly pretty blond girl, Evelyn Lucas, who was a National Honor Society student in high school. Evelyn and Edward were married in Elkton, Maryland when Evelyn was an under-aged 19 year old. Elkton was widely known as the quikie marriage capital of a three state area which suggests that the marriage may not have had parental approval.
Evelyn and Edward were living in the Spruce Street home of his parents. Edward worked as a Mount Carmel police officer and Evelyn in a garment factory.
Frank dies in September of 1967.
Laura died two years earlier.
Just as there were no newspaper accounts of their wedding, obituaries for either of then could not be located.
In deferencce to his Polish wife, the Lithuanian Frank and the Polish Laaura were burried in the Polish Cemetary just outside of Mount Carmel.
