Bethlen Almanac 1997 (Ligonier)

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In closing, Helen and I would like to express the hope that others might experience the fellowship and fraternal focus we have enjoyed these many years.

Our parents were bom in Hungary, mother in Szatmar county, City of Csenger, father in Vas megye county, City of Szeged, near Papa. They came to America through Ellis Island in the early part of nineteen hundred. Mother was Protestant and Father was of Lutheran faith. Being young and both single they met in a coal mining town called Logan, West Virginia. Father was a coal miner and mother worked as a maid in the boarding house. They met and not too long after they got married in Charleston, West Virginia in 1907.

They lived four miles from Logan in a small mining camp in Monaville which had two mines, No. 11 and 12. They were blessed with ten children, five boys and five girls. Their faith was strong, for many Hungarian ministers came down from the big cities and stayed at our home, for the Hungarian services were held in Logan at the Presbyterian church on Sunday afternoons. Father was the Chief Elder and mother had to make sure that the minister’s white collar was starched for the Sunday service. The minister the Hungarians liked best was Rev. Louis Novak who came from Detroit. He was the son-in-law of Rev. Dr. Lajos Nanassy, best known as the “árva-atya.” Rev. Novak began to teach the Hungarian school in the

Remembering the Past

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Louise Edith Vespremi

Samuel Vespremi and his sister Louise Vespremi.

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