Anastasia Repella

Source Information:

Year: 1907; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 29; Page Number: 106

Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 19, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1038; Page: 23A; Enumeration District: 1013; FHL microfilm: 1375051

Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, 

Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York; Roll: 1766349; Draft Board: 133

Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 14, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1211; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 1019

Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 

Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0190; FHL microfilm: 2341287

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02639; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 31-658

The National Archives at Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Title: Declarations of Intention for Citizenship, 1/19/1842 - 10/29/1959; NAI Number: 4713410; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: 21

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: 

     Anastasia Kuzemczak Repella, or "Nellie" as she sometimes called herself, arrived at Ellis Island in 1907, traveling alone, and was about 15 years old.  On the ship's manifest, she declared her ethnicity to be Ruthenian/Rusnak.  Ruthenians are a distinct Eastern Slavic people with a distinct language who lived for more than a thousand years in remote villages scattered along the foothills and valleys of the Carpathian Mountains of East Central Europe.  Anastasia's birth village of Binczarowa, once part of the Hungarian Empire of Galicia now falls within the borders of modern-day Poland.

Anastasia supported herself in New York by working in a cigar factory and found accomodation in a rooming house.  In 1915, she married Roman Plaskon, a fellow Ruthenian, who worked as a railroad inspector at Grand Central Station. Anastasia's parents are listed as Jacob Kuzemchiak and Anna Nowitaka on the marriage license.  Sadly, Roman Plaskon died in 1929 when just thirty five years old and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. 

Anastasia remarried in 1933 to Peter Repella.  Peter was also born in the town of Binczarowa.  He worked at New York Central Station according to his WWII Draft Card and the 1940 U.S. Census.

Anastasia Kuzemczak Plaskon Repella died in New York on the 24th of November 1984 and was buried on Hart Island on the 20th of December 1984.