Generation Two: Czimbal-[unknown]

children of unknown Czimbal and wife

JOSEPH [JOSEF] J. CZIMBAL 
b. 6/12/1868 Bekescsaba, Hungary
d. 3/13/1949 Cleveland, OH
married 11/14/1892 to ELIZABETH M. VANSZACS
children: Margaret {Kiss}, Elizabeth {Szotyk}, Joseph Jr.,
Edith {Smet}, Andrew J.,
HELEN E. CZIMBAL {SPRING}, John, Michael

Josef J. Czimbal sailed to America aboard the Graf Waldersee in 1902. The ship left Hamburg on May 3, stopping in Boulogne and Plymouth (UK), and arrived in New York on May 14. Josef was detained for 5 days at Ellis Island, and was released to the Hungarian Legion at 14 Greenwich St. in NYC on May 21st. He soon went on, probably by railroad, to the town of Wilmore, Pennsylvania (between Johnstown and Altoona), to stay with a friend, Janos Ruszinko.

Josef had left his wife of ten years and their three children back in Bekescsaba, where he had been a farmer, to work in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania, saving up to bring his family over. He returned to Hungary for a visit sometime in 1905-06, sailing out of Hamburg once again on Feb. 10, 1906, and arriving back at Ellis Island on the 20th, headed this time to Bellwood, PA (north of Altoona). His daughter, Helen, wrote that he returned to Hungary "several times" during this period; his daughter, Edith, was born in December 1905, which presumably means that he was present in Bekescsaba around March of that year.

Joseph's wife and four children finally came over in November, 1907 [according to Helen]. Some time after this, he began farming in Iselin, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Cleveland in 1924, and Joseph ran a general store at 4803 Storer Ave; he also operated an ice-truck and grew fruit trees in his yard. The former Czimbal farm in Iselin was sold to Tony Parisi for $1 in 1930.

Joseph's obituary:

Id#: 0069073
Name: Czimbal, Joseph J.
Date: Mar 16 1949
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #018.
Notes: Czimbal, Joseph J., residence, 4803 Storer Ave., beloved husband of Elizabeth, father of Mrs. Margaret Kiss and Mrs. Elizabeth Szotyk, Joseph, Andrew, Mrs. Helen Spring, John and the late Edith Knezinek, and Michael, passed away Sun., Mar. 13. Friends received at the L. F. Jindra Funeral Home, 3324 Fulton Rd., where services will be held Thurs., Mar. 17, at 9 a. m. and St. Procop's Church, 9:30 a. m.

The Czimbal farm's boundaries:

Beginning at an Iron pin in south line of Philadelphia Street, at northeast corner of said lot, which pin Is a distance of 75 feet in a westerly direction from the Intersection of said south line of Philadelphia Street with the west line of Eleventh Street; thence by line of lot now or formerly of R. N. Ray,

South 1 7 minutes East 110 feet to an Iron pin in north line of a private alley; thence along north line of said private alley, North 89 50 minutes West 22 1-2 feet to corner of lot of Alphonso Valentl; thence by line of said lot of Alphonso Valenti, North 1 7 minutes West 110 feet to south line of Philadelphia Street; thence along south line of Philadelphia Street South 89 60 minutes East 22 1-2 feet to iron pin at place of beginning;