Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky 1910s
1917 -- Anne Mary Vidunas is born
1917 -- Father Augustus Vidunas dies
1917 -- World War I
1919 -- Paris Peace Talks
1917 -- Father Augustus Vidunas dies
1917 -- World War I
1919 -- Paris Peace Talks
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 |
1919
Historical Insight -- Paris Peace Conference
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Pennsylvania. Retrieved December 9, 2019, from Wikipedia:
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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
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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
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