Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, 1917 - 1981 part 1 of 8

Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky 1910s

1917 -- Anne Mary Vidunas is born
1917 -- Father Augustus Vidunas dies
1917 -- World War I
1919 -- Paris Peace Talks

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

Anne is my Great Aunt, the sister to my Grandfather Joseph Vidunas.

from Ancestry.com

1917

Birth, 29 March 1917

By the time she was born, America was about to get involved in World War I.  I don't have a birth certificate for her, but I have secondary and tertiary sources which all point to her birth date as 29 March 1917, in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  We know she lived at 48 Pulaski Street in Kingston, because her father lived there when he died.  According to Wikipedia, there were 6,440 people living in Kingston as of the 1910 census (Wikipedia -- Kingston, 2019).

Location of Kingston in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
(Wikipedia -- Kingston, 2019)

Below are images from Google Maps and Street view, of 48 Pulaski street, Kingston

Kingston PA, google maps

Red circle is her place of birth
Google maps

Street view of 48 Pulaski.  On the right with red arrow

April 1917 -- Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I

Enacted just a month after the US declared war on Germany, the Selective Service Act required all males from the ages of 21 to 30 to register for military service.  By the end of the war, half of the 4.8 million soldiers in the American military had been drafted.

1917, Camp Admiral, Maryland
Credit:  Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

Death of her father, Augustus W. Vidunas 
She was only 2 months old when her father died.  He was working in the coal mine, had an accident with an axe on his knee.  It became infected and he died.  He was only 35 years old.  Today, we would call that sepsis.  His Find a Grave memorial is here.

Augustas Vidunas 1917 grave stone detail FAG 46205516

In other news:
In 1917, Russian revolution starts; US enters WWI (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
In 1918, Flu epidemic lasted two years, yet killed 25 million or more US citizens;  Prohibition started;  (OurTimelines.com).

(Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, 1911)

1919

Historical Insight -- Paris Peace Conference

1919, Paris, France
Credit:  Library of Congress

(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

Separate peace treaties were negotiated with the five nations who were viewed as aggressors during the war

In other news: -- League of Nations instituted;  Shortwave Radio invented (OurTimelines.com).

1912 Dress

If you like what you see, be sure to subscribe, and consider supporting me on my patreon page

Become a Patron!

______________________________________________

Resources

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). America Enters World War I. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa. (1911, April 28). 1911 Clip Art, Roald mundsen, South Pole Explorer. Retrieved November 27, 2019, from Newspapers.com.
Wikipedia -- Kingston. (2019, November 24). Kingston, Pennsylvania. Retrieved December 9, 2019, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Pennsylvania
Wikipedia -- Wilson. (2018). Woodrow Wilson, 28th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
Wilson, W. (2018). Woodrow Wilson Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/woodrow_wilson

______________________________________________