Showing posts with label John Wagner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Wagner. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

John Wagner part II

I think it is time to work on the family history again. A few more pages about John Wagner and then we will leave him. He wasn't in the picture very long and I'm amazed how much I was able to learn about him.
The woman who gave me the pictures was the daughter of the couple below left. Her father was the executor of John's estate and I was able to track her down because her parents had never moved from the house they lived in in 1942. I sent a letter to that address but unfortunately her mother had recently died but mail was still being forwarded to the daughter.
We met her when we were in Chicago and she tried to be helpful. She found a few things that her father had kept which she was glad to give me. Entries I found in an old telephone directory suggested that John and Gladys may have lived apart for a time after the death of the first child.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wagner-Rozsa

Now it is time to bring Jimmy's father into the picture. The text below is laying over the ships manifest from http://www.ellisisland.org/ You can go to the site and search on Rozsa and find the entry.


There is, I know, at least one typo in the above (serching instead of searching. I fix it I will have to remake the page so it will take a little time. I now know how to do it so I can edit text later.

The picture of Julius Rozsa, Sr and the woman I presume to be his wife came from Elizabeth Braddy, the niece of John Wagner (Julius Rozsa, Jr.) The other two photos came from the daughter of John's friend and executor.