My paternal great grandfather was John Skovira. He was born in Egals, Hungary Nov. 15, 1851. He and his wife Helen (Surname unknown) immigrated to the US in 1881 via Ellis Island. They had one son, (Ed)ward (my grandfather). Ed was born in 1893 in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania and died Nov. 2, 1928 in Harlan, Kentucky.
John, Helen and Ed moved to Pole Bridge, Alabama according to the 1900 Alabama, Jefferson County, Census. At that time, they had a boarder living with them whose name was Joeseph Horis (age 26) in 1900 who was also an immigrant from Hungary.
If anyone has any information about this Skovira family, please contact me at
tLord3@aol.com or you may phone me at 205-991-5666 in Birmingham, Alabama.