Percy Howard Uren Fyock b. 23 Jun 1901 Sabula, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 17 Apr 1987 Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA: Das Birkenhördt-Projekt

1901 - 1987 (85 years)

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Name	Percy Howard Uren Fyock
Born	23 Jun 1901	Sabula, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender	Male
Died	17 Apr 1987	Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA
Buried	20 Apr 1987	Cochran Cemetery, Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Person ID	I83981	Suedpfalz
Last Modified	15 Jun 2014

Father	James Uren
Mother	Mary Wood, d. 1901, Pennsylvania, USA
Family ID	F37837	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Father	Wesley Fyock, b. 6 Feb 1870, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 6 Dec 1954, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 84 years)
Relationship	Adopted
Mother	Sarah Ann Uren, b. 12 May 1874, England , d. 12 May 1961, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 87 years)
Relationship	Adopted
Married	2 Jul 1892	Pennsylvania, USA
Family ID	F37835	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Bertha Alice Burkey, b. 24 Mar 1901, Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 29 Jun 1999, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 98 years)

Married 23 Feb 1920 Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA

Children

	1. Donald Monroe Fyock, b. 21 Aug 1920, Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 26 Nov 1992, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 72 years)
	2. Justin Darrel Fyock, b. 19 Jul 1922, Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 5 Feb 2007, New York, USA (Age 84 years)
	3. Ernest Warren Fyock, b. 9 Jun 1924, Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 4 Dec 2016, Delmont, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 92 years)
	4. Harald Boyd Fyock, b. 17 May 1926, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 28 Sep 1985, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 59 years)
	5. Lois Marian Fyock, b. 27 Dec 1927, Hastings, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 15 Nov 1973, Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 45 years)
	6. Edwin Lewis Fyock, b. 10 Nov 1929, Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 15 Apr 2011, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 81 years)
	7. Sara Ellen Fyock, b. 18 Dec 1930, Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 5 Jun 1990, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 59 years)
	8. Howard Daniel Fyock, b. 22 Feb 1932, Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 20 Jul 2004, Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, USA (Age 72 years)
	9. Jack Wesley Fyock
	10. Harry Allen Fyock
	11. James Arthur Fyock, b. 12 Jun 1939, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 27 May 1974, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 34 years)
	12. Nancy Carol Fyock

Last Modified 1 May 2018

Family ID F37836 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

1. Percy Howard (Uren)4 Fyock (James3 Uren, John (Jack)2, James1) (Source: Records of John Uren.) was born 23 May 1901 in Sabula, Clearfield Co., PA (Source: Death certificate), and died 17 Apr 1987 in Templeton, Armstrong Co., PA (Source: Death Certificate.). He married Bertha Alice Burkey (Source: Herself.) 23 Feb 1920 in Rochester Mills, Indiana Co., PA (Source: Self.), daughter of Jonathan Burkey and Ellen Whitacre. She was born 24 Mar 1901 in Rochester Mills, Indiana Co., PA (Source: Court House Birth Registration Certificate - Indiana Co., PA.), and died 29 Jun 1999 in Brookville Hosp. - Brookville, PA 10:50 am (Source: Death Certificate.).

Notes for Percy Howard (Uren) Fyock:
FAMILY HISTORY OF PERCY FYOCK & BERTHA BURKEY

Saturday March 23, 1920 was a cold winter day, with snow up to your waist in Rochester Mills, Grant Twp., Indiana Co., PA,. The day was easily remembered by Percy Howard Fyock and Bertha Alice Burkey for it was their wedding day. Their wedding took place at the home of Rev. Oran Fyock with him performing the ceremony. Oran was a brother of Wesley Fyock, who along with his wife Sarah (Uren) Fyock raised Percy from the age of seven months. The wedding ceremony was attended only by the parents of the groom. Jonathan Burkey and his wife Ellen Sarah (Whitacre) did not attend. The home of Oran, where the wedding took place, was located near the Montgomery Church on the opposite side of the road. Percy and Bertha, along with Wesley and Sarah, arrived at the wedding place in a horse drawn sleigh. Weather conditions made this the only form of transportation suitable for travel.
The fist residence of the newly married couple was in the home of Sarah and Wesley, which was located at the top of the hill from the Burkey place. It was here that they lived when their first child Donald was born and where they continued to reside until the house burned in June of 1922 just before the birth of Justin. After the fire Wesley and Sarah moved to Gipsy where they purchased a house. Percy and Bertha remained on the farm living in a machinery shed that had a dirt floor with one wall being the side of the corncrib. Here they continued house keeping, such as it was, until the crops were harvested in the fall.
After the harvest was complete, Percy and Bertha loaded the horse drawn wagon for their move to Gipsy. It was the intention of dad to again take up house keeping in the home of Wesley and Sarah. However, mother had other plans and informed dad that if she could not have a place of her own, she was going back home to live with her parents. Upon being told this Percy agreed to get them a place of their own and she accompanied him to Gipsy.
Their first home in Gipsy was a couple of rooms over the establishment of an undertaker. They later moved to an apartment over the general store. During their time in this place dad delivered coal house to house in a mule drawn wagon, as an employee of the coal company. From Gipsy they moved to Emeigh to a little house beside a coal tipple. My mother said the coal dust collected on the window sills as if it were black snow. Sometime after settling here the miners went on strike. As was the custom in those days strike breakers were hired to replace the striking miners.
Along with the strike breakers came people known as "Pussyfooters." It was the job of these people to ride around on horse back and prevent anyone from interfering with the strike breakers working the mines. These men threatened to ride over anyone who got in their way and mother was afraid Don, who had started school, would be run over by them. Through intimidation and threats the striking miners were replaced, by the scabs, forcing dad and others to seek employment elsewhere.
For a short time mother and dad lived in Hastings where Lois was born. Their home there was in what was locally known as a haunted house. Local legend said that a man murdered his wife in that house and that when you walked by at night you could see a bloody hand pawing at the window. This story was told to mother at a time when dad was away working on a road job and it nearly scared her to death. Indeed, there were signs that someone had been killed or badly hurt there for blood could be seen on the walls in one room.
With the loss of his job to strike breakers dad found employment in Templeton where he became employed at the brick works of Harbison & Walker. Because dad could not afford to move the family to Templeton right away he stayed, as a border, at the home of Eugene and Lydia Barringer in Templeton.
Shortly after beginning work at Harbinson & Walker he fell from a ladder and sustained a severe head injury that landed him in the hospital for five or six weeks. During part of his hospital stay mother and Lois 'Sis' stayed with a family by the name of Scott, in Kittanning directly across the street from the hospital. A daughter of this family would baby sit Sis while mother took care of dad at the hospital. Upon relating this story to me, mother could not recall if she paid for room and board, but, thought she probably did.
Finally during 1928 the entire family moved to Templeton and took up house keeping in the Lodge Hall. This move was brought about by the spunk of mother. It seems dad was nearly starving himself in order to send enough money home to keep the family fed. Mother decided that either the family was moving to Templeton, or dad was coming home where they would starve together.
From the Lodge Hall the family moved to the house next door and from there to a couple different places in the lower end of Templeton, living in company houses, known as the brick yard row. From here they moved to the Lowry farm located between Templeton and Mosgrove. It was in this house that Jack, myself and Jim was born. Also, it was in this house, just a couple of years before moving out, that the family experienced the convenience of electricity. I have in my possession the gasoline operated iron that mother used to iron clothes while living at this place. Since we lived there eight years and moved out in 1942, I and mother believe the iron was acquired sometime during 1934. The gasoline iron was a step up from those heated on a coal stove.
March 2, 1942 the family, now numbering eleven, moved into a house just outside the Village of Templeton in a place known as Whiskey Hollow. This house was purchased from Hilderbrands, with the help of Rev. Walter Kennedy who loaned dad the down payment. I believe the purchase price was either $2,200 or $2,400. Sometime shortly after dad purchased the house the seller wanted it back probably for sentimental reasons. It was in this house that the 12th and final child Nancy was born. Actually Nancy was born in Kittanning hospital the only one of twelve children not born at home.
During our many years at this house dad raised pigs and chickens and kept much of the flat land planted in gardens. We raised nearly everything we needed to survive and mother canned most everything she could get her hands on including many wild berries that we picked. I recall mother making dresses for herself and the girls out of feed sacks. In those days the chicken feed came in printed sacks that all families used to make clothing. Here the family resided while dad worked at various jobs such as; limestone mines, coal mines, a steel mill, a canning factory in North Collins, NY and on the roads for the State of PA.
After dads retirement from the PA Highway Dept. he and mother continued to live in their home in Whiskey Hollow at Templeton, PA. Mother would have liked to sell the place and get a small house with less upkeep but dad would have nothing to do with that idea. It was dads wish that he live and die here in his own home. The only one he ever owned. This he did on 17 April 1987 after suffering two heart attacks in a short time. Mother continued to live in the family home until October of 1989 when she sold the house and purchased a mobile home which she placed on grounds of her granddaughter Shirley and husband Joe Bish between Widnoon and Distant PA.

Told to me by my mother on 20 February 1990. - Harry Fyock

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