Individual Notes

Note for: Teresa A. Jordan, 28 AUG 1881 - 1 SEP 1954 Index

Burial:
     Date:   3 SEP 1954
     Place:   Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, Shavertown, PA

Individual Note:
     Mother and father born in Ireland.
Age listed as 38 in 1920 Census.

1930 Census lists Theresa (42), widowed, living at 480 South River Street with son Paul (18) and son Frank (13). Home owned at that time valued at $15,000.

Tombstone says born 1880.

Individual Notes

Note for: Leon Mehm, - BEF 1931 Index

Individual Note:
Living in Buffalo, NY at time of father's death, April, 1927.

(Could this be great-grandfather of Tracy Mehm?).

Individual Notes

Note for: Paul Mehm, 25 SEP 1910 - 26 AUG 1986 Index

Burial:
     Date:   30 AUG 1986
     Place:   Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, Shavertown, PA

Individual Note:
     Living at 480 South River Street in 1930 Census. Age 18.
Living at that address when he died.
Never married.

Individual Notes

Note for: Frank Mehm, ABT 1917 - 1 JUN 1931 Index

Individual Note:
Living at 480 South River Street in 1930 Census. Age 13.

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Note for: Elizabeth Flynn, 4 OCT 1879 - 22 MAY 1903 Index

Individual Note:
Residing in W-B at time of marriage to Frank.

Obit:
Wilkes-Barre Record Monday May 25, 1903
Died in Wilkes-Barre, May 22, Elizabeth, wife of Frank J. Mehm, heart trouble, 25 years.

Funeral notice:
W-B Record Tues. May 26, 1903
Funeral of Mrs. Mehm
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Mehm were yesterday interred after requiem mass in St. Nicholas Church by Father Balta.
The flower bearers were Thomas Hughes and John Sheridan. The pall bearers were: John Murphy, William SAchuler, Adam Gabel, Frank Schuler, Martin Murray and Martin Gallagher. Those who sent floral tributes were the husband, the family, Thomas Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Byron, Miss Anna Sheridan, Gertrude Bunny, Mr. and Mrs. Goeckel, Mr. and Mrs. Kraig, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Rushmeir, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Long, Mrs. Storz, Anna Lehman, Thomas Higgins, Anna and Katie Rooney, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hirsch and Lillie Kricham.

Individual Notes

Note for: Leopold Storz (Stortz), 17 NOV 1821 - 19 JUL 1902 Index

Individual Note:
Occupation listed as Saloon Keeper in 1880 Census. Age 58. Living at 44 Lehigh Street.
Born in Bavaria.

Bil Corcoran has Leopold born 17 Nov. 1821, in Deirsburg, Baden Germany. Died 19 Ju.l 1902. Buried in Darling Street Cemetery.

I have e-mail from another Joe (nmax1@aol.com) 16 mar 1997, stating his gggrandfather was Johann Georg Storz. Johann had a brother named Leopold, and Johann settled in the W-B area. Joe says Johann left Dirsburg, Baden in 1864. This could be my Leopold's brother.

Obituary:
W-B Record Monday July 21, 1902
The late Leopold Storz.
Leopold Storz died at his home, 50 Lehigh Street, of general debility on Saturday morning. He was born in Baden, Germany, on the 17th of Novenmber, 1821, and reached the age of 80 years, 8 months and 2 days.
For more than twenty years he was employed by the late Charles Parrish as mine boss at the old Diamond shaft, after which he conducted a hotel on Lehigh Street, but for the last 15 years has not been engaged in any business. The deceased is survived by his wife and the following children: William of this city, John of Pittston, Charles of South Dakota and Sister Evangelista, at present at the St. Louis House of the sisters of Christian Charity.
Mr. Storz has always been an ernest member of St. Nicholas Church, where at 10 o'clock this morning a requiem high mass will be said. Interment will be in the German Catholic Cemetery on Darling Street. Members of St. Nicholas and St. Joseph Societies are requested to attend the funeral.
The funeral will leave the house, 50 Lehigh Street, at 9:30 this morning.

Funeral notice:
W-B Record Tues. July 22, 1902 lists pall bearers: Fred Schuler, George Proelier, John Sneaker, Charles Ell, Gus Keller and Adam Dich.