Ancestors

George Eggett

Born October 10, 1876 at Ósva in Abauj county, the mixed Slovak and Hungarian country just south of Kassa, now Košice, Slovakia; his name in the old country was Gyorgy Egedemri, and Eggett is what America made of it. The Ruskov parish book, one village over from Ósva, holds his baptism in October 1876, son of György Eged and Borbála Jakab; the family wrote its name Eged, Eged Emri, Egedemri by turns, and two more sons, István and András, follow in the same register. He crossed twice, at Ellis Island in January 1905 and again on May 11, 1910, out of Fiume with his wife aboard the Carpathia, the ship that would pull the Titanic survivors from the boats two years later. The manifest's nationality column enters the family as Slovaks out of Hungary. Sons Andy and George Jr. were born in the old country, then Mary in Cleveland in 1914, Joe in Ohio, and Elizabeth Jr. in Illinois. He was naturalized George Eggett at Danville in May 1930, farmed the census years at the coal village of Belgium next to Westville, and by 1950, widowed, was living at seventy-four in the house of his daughter Mary in Lorain County, Ohio, with his Kovacs granddaughters around him. Three weeks after that census he was back in Illinois. He died at Danville on 25 April 1950, according to his memorial, and was buried beside Elizabeth at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Westville.

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Cite: Heirology, "George Eggett (1876-1950)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/george-eggett-1876-1950-31922b.