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"Jozef Pojedinec and Anna Vida both ended up at a central rooming house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was a central processing point for immigrants. Since they knew each other in the Old Country they decided to get married."
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"Jozef and Anna Pojedinec left Pittsburgh and went to a small village nearby called East Vandergrift where Jozef Pojedinec was hired as a steel worker."
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"Joseph was not happy living in that small town so at the age of 14 he dropped out of school and went to Buffalo, NY where he got a job in a steel factory."
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"It was in Buffalo, NY where Joseph Pojedinec met my Great Grandmother, Helen Margaret Mazurek."
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Joseph and Helen Pojedinec have their first child, my grandfather, Frank Poydence.
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"The name Pojedinec was difficult to pronounce so my grandfathers oldest aunt went to court and had the name legally changed to Poydence."
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My grandparents, Frank and Alice, lived on the same street in Apollo, Pennsylvania throughout their childhood. When my Grandmother graduated high school, they were maried.
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My mother, Sue (Partridge) Poydence, is born in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of ten children of Robert Thomas and Sara Eskue Partridge.
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Frank and Alice have their fourth child (out of six)- Bo Poydence, my father. He was born in Hawaii because my Grandfather was then a member of the US Air Force and had to travel a lot.
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My father finished college in Nebraska and took his first job in Texas.
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Bo and Sue, my parents, meet at their job in Dallas, Texas and soon get married.
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Bo and Sue have their first child, Taylor, in Carrollton, Texas.
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I am the yougest (second) child of Bo and Sue Poydence. To this day, we still live in Carrollton, Texas.