This is the exact family that I'm working on.
I am gathering up the info for the family.
I just posted the obit for Bertha Molnar Estenes (from a church newsletter)
Istvan and Bertha's youngest daughter, Anna Rose, just died Mar 2009 at age 101.
I looked in Detroit on microfilm several years ago, and didn't find anything about the accident of Istvan. We went to Forest Lawn cemetery in Detroit and got the date from the office, and the place of the burial. There was no tombstone though.
he died Jan 26, 1926. His birth: April 2, 1868 or possibly 1870.
varcsix@hot.rr.comWrite me so we can take some of this off the board as we compare notes.
My connection is that Steven Smith (the son) was the father of my husband's stepmother. I love genealogy though, so am very intrigued by this family and their coal mining history.