The linguistic landscape of American Hungarian cemeteries: Who is Hungarian in the cemetery? with Anna Fenyvesi

Another note, I was interested to see Brownsville and Daisytown PA on the map of cemeteries visited/documented. My 2nd great grandparents who were not Hungarian adopted/took in a Hungarian girl in Wisconsin after her mother died in the early 1900s-the bio mother is buried in Brillion, WI. Her bio father John Hubicsak had about 9 children, with several from the second marriage. He could not manage/afford them all. The first born Liza Hubicsak was born 3/12/1902 in Youngstown, Ohio but on the father’s naturalization paperwork it is shown that she lived in Hungary. They were from Vajdacska, Borsad-Abany-Zemplen. The second marriage of John was in 1918 in Brownsville, PA and at least one of their children was born in Daisytown.

Great presentation and information. Anna, one question I have is the following. When you were wondering about the origin for example Slav or Hungarian of a person named Kish did you use resources to look up the person to determine that? One example you gave was Nicolas Kish, on his death certificate available on Ancestry his birthplace is given as Hungary and his birth name as Miklos Kiss. Mother’s last name was Marie Ferku. Of course I suppose he could be of Slav origin born in Hungary.

This was a very interesting topic – koszonom szepen!

I remember a story told to me by my mother. In Cleveland there is Calvary Cemetery. On around All Souls Day my mother and her mother went to visit the Calvary graves. It was late in the day and the sun was setting. Calvary closed the gates at dusk and they were stuck inside the gates. So my mother had to help my grandmother climb over the fence! Nagyon vicces!!! HAHA!!!