Old photo, white border. Circa 1930.
Price: $10.00 Size: 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″
“Andy, Mikey, Johnny Gogola. all farmers.”
From left to right: Johnny, Andy and Mikey Gogola:
A Gogola family of three brothers (and siblings) shows up on the Menallen, Fayette County, Pennsylvania 1930 Federal Census. If this is correct, the trio are the sons of Polish immigrants Clement and Eva Gogola. From older brothers’ marriage records (Wyandotte, MI) Eva’s maiden name is recorded as Mijol and Nijol.
Andy and older brothers, Stanley and Frank, all make their way to the Detroit, Michigan area. This photo was found in the Dearborn antique shop that I recently visited (and will be back to next year). No other possibilities of a different Gogola family were found.
My Forrer Street connection
Wow! What a surprise for me, finding Andy Gogola’s WWII vet record listing he and his wife and two kids living on Forrer St., Detroit. I rented an upper flat some decades later on Forrer, just a block away.
Sources: Year: 1930; Census Place: Menallen, Fayette, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2040; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0056; Image: 298.0; FHL microfilm: 2341774. (Ancestry.com)
Marriage record for Frances Gogola; marriage record for Stanley Gogola. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952. Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics. (Ancestry.com)
Andrew L. Gogola. Pennsylvania (State). World War II Veterans Compensation Applications, circa 1950s. Records of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Record Group 19, Series 19.92 (877 cartons). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Ancestry.com)
These are my great uncles. Are there more photos where these came from??
Hi Lori, possibly at the antique store where this one was found. In Dearborn, MI. Will email you the particulars.
Tried emailing you Lori, but it didn’t go thru, will try again. Maybe I mis-typed. But the photo was found loose, in a box of photos at Village Antiques. 22630 Michigan Ave. phone 313-563-1230. There could be others over there, but I don’t recall seeing any when I bought the one, though so many loose photos have no writing on the back, so there could be ones only a family member would recognize!