This week’s SNGF challenge from Randy Seaver is definitely a look back in time:

1)  Every one of your ancestors was doing “something” in their life in early 1925?  Do you know, or do you have to guess?

I had to check my pedigree chart and found that two of my 2X great grandparents were living in 1925.

Nellie Tarbox Adams (1856-1927), on my maternal line was living in Calais, Washington, Maine, at home. Nellie never had an occupation and her husband, Calvin, had died in 1921.

Sarah Moriah Crouse (1833-1930) was also at home, but living with my great grandfather’s family, also in Calais, Maine.

Most of my great grandparents were also living:

Stephen (1855-1933)and Mary (Kacsenyak) Kucharik/Sabo (1859-1926) were living in Passaic, Passaic, New Jersey. Mary never worked outside the home and, to the best of my knowledge, Stephen was a day laborer in a bleachery.

Michael (1868-1932) and Anna (Murcko) Scerbak (1872-1967) were living a rural farm life in Ujak, Slovakia. [This is the village that didn’t even have electricity until the 1960s!]

Annie Maude (Stuart) Adams (1874-1940) owned a ladies’ dress shop in Calais, Washington, Maine in the 1920s and early 1930s. My great grandfather, Charles Adams, died in 1922.

Hartwell Thomas Coleman (1869-1938) was a master mariner who guided large boats on both the Maine/Canada border waterways and who, by the 1920s, had moved to Massachusetts, guiding the boats/ships in Boston Harbor. My great grandmother, Anna Elisabeth (Jensen) Coleman had died in 1916.

My grandparents were both young married couples:

George (1893-1936) and Julia (Scerbak) Kucharik/Sabo had bought their first home in 1925, the same house where I grew up at 49 Summer Street, Passaic, New Jersey. They were living the American dream as children of Eastern European immigrants. Not only did they own their own house, but they also owned a successful butcher shop, the Central Market Company. Yes, Nana also worked in the shop and she kept the books for the business. My dad, George Michael Sabo, would soon be born in early 1926.

Vernon Tarbox (1899-1968) and Hazel Ethel (Coleman) (1901-1995) Adams were married and had two daughters by 1925, Annie Barbara and Doris Priscilla, my mother. My grandmother was a housewife and the family moved a lot because my grandfather was a regional manager for Western Union. In the 1920’s, they were living in Bangor, Maine.

As mentioned, my father wasn’t born until early 1926 and my mother was a toddler at home.

That’s it for what my ancestors were doing and where in 1925. Thanks, Randy, for this week’s challenge.