OR ARE THEY?
John Selepack born 1858, his wife Annie Stanko. Mother is Marg Stanko, Father is john Selpyak
1900-1920, John Selepack Jr born 1874 was going by the name of John Stanko. He took the last name of his grandmother's maiden name Marg Stanko until 1930.
1930 John Stanko went back to his name John Selepacak and all his children as Selepacak, except for two male children: George and Andrew Stanko they wanted to keep the last name Stanko. Andrew's children are Stanko
Under the name John Selpayak Jr. married Pauline Marie Onofrey and lived in Jenners or Johnstown, Somerset, Pennsylvania. Few months after Pauline Onofrey immigrated from Czech.
In 1910 - Jenner(s), Somerset, Pennsylvania. John Selepack Jr. and Pauline was under the name Stanco, an error in the census as "Stance". As this time Pauline's father John Onofrey and her brother Vinzce Onofrey lived with them. And their cousin Drego Grego?
Pauline's siblings are
Vinzce Onofrey married Dora and moved to Ohio where his sister Johanna and her husband George moved to
Johanna Onofrey married George Safcsak of Austria
John Onofrey married (unknown)
Marie Elizabeth Onofrey married (unknown)
In 1920 - Ogle, Somerset, Pennsyvlania the John Selepack Jr. family was still going by as Stanko.
In 1930 Ogle, Somerset, Pennsylvania census was spelled Selepacak. His children's death certificates is Selepack.
John Selepacak died January 12, 1937 in Ashtola, Cambria, Pennsylvania
My Aunt also mention to me that John Selpayak, Sr could not speak English to well and might have repeated the name Selpayak to the boarder. Also mentioned they might of immigrated together on the same boat. How ever there is no other John in 1889 nor 1900 immigrated to New York.
Great-grandmother
Pauline Onofrey (Palegia Marie Onofrej) of Prague, Slovakia born in 1878. John Selepack Jr. born in Vendsgi, Zemphin, Czechslovakia (Austria) in 1874. Pauline got off the boat in 1899 in New York and moved to Ogle Pennsylvania with her cousin John Onofrey and later on her father John Onofrej arrived by 1910. John Selepack Jr. was a coalminer.
died December 15, 1956
They had 10 children, taught them to speak in Slovak.
Children:
Julianna Stanko/Selepack married Michael Rebenock (Death), Michael Pugel
Mary Stanko/Selepack married Harry Mural
John Stanko/Selepack married Olie Hinkle
Andrew Stanko/Selepack married Marie Corle
Michael Stanko/Selepack married Mary Bedada
Joseph Stanko/Selepack married Elvie Smethurst
Margret Stanko/Selepack married Michael Stofan
George Stanko/Selepack never married
Lillian (Dorthy)Stanko/Selepack married Charles Molnar
Stephen Selepack died as an infant
Grandparents
My grandparents, Elvie Matilda Smethurst and Joseph Steven Selepack married in Oct 20, 1934. My grandfather played keyboard-accordian and piano. He was active at his church, he sanged in the choir and played music for them. He worked in a steel factory and was a driver for heavy equipment before he retired.
Children:
(Dee) Delores Selepack married John Buri
John Joseph Selepack married Iva Bolt (div), Linda Pope (div)
Carol Selepack married Mr. Daughtery (div)
My real father
John Joseph Selepack born in Pennsylvania and join the Air Force around 1958 was transferred to Fairbanks, Alaska. He learned to play the piano from his father and used to play in a bar in Fairbanks on his free time from the Air Force. He would play mostly 1950s (Elvis).
He met my mother one night when he played the piano and my mother kept watching him play. Well that made my mom melt and she fell in love with John. They started dating and around September 1959 they were married.
He did not know of my two siblings Benjamin and Eleanor (Cindy) at the time of marriage. My mother also brushed my father off when she found out that he was younger then her. For 4-6 weeks she ignored him and finally he convinced her that he is truly in love with her.
End of 1959, the Air Force transferred my parents to Tennessee while my mother was pregnant with me.
This made my father excited and hoping he would have a girl.
I was born to them in Jan 1960, at first I scared my father because I was so tiny.
My parents went and visit my grandparents in Pennsylvania to show them me.
my grandfather Joseph just took me in his arms and holds me.
But my grandmother hesitated because I was an indigenous (Eskimo child) she never hold me.
That made my mom feels sad and wanted to leave right away back to Tennessee.
As a toddler John called me "plunkie" and had given me a Doberman-pincher puppy. I have a 35mm of me and the puppy. In the film I got into John's cigarettes.
But things didn't work out between them; my mother divorced my father by March 1964 (before the Alaska earthquake) when I was 4 years old.
As I got older I found out that I have a birth father John Selepack and I have learned that he also called my 1/2 sister Carol Stafford born 1965 "plunk"; per Linda Pope his 2nd wife.
Children:
Corinne Spencer (Selepack) married (Div) Michael McDonnell
Joseph Spencer (Selepack) married (Div) Bekki Schwartz
Vera Edwards (Selepack) married (Div) Joel Kasaysulie
Michael Stotts (Selepack) married Juanita Ferguson (Div), Nancy Tuckfield
John and Iva have 16 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren and my mother past away Oct 2009