Apolonia Skrobot is born April 23, 1904

Apolonia Skrobot (my grandmother) was born on April 23, 1904, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, to Anna Agnes Barsch, age 21, and Walter Eugene Skrobat, age 30. Her parents had both been born in Poland. Apolonia was born after they came to the United States so was she born a United States citizen. Her parents had 13 children and six of them survived. Apolonia was the second of their children. “Appallonia” (spelling on the birth document) was baptised at the Church of Saint Joseph, 35 Pearl Avenue, Oil City, Pennsylvania, the next day, on April 24, 1902. Her Godparents were John Barzzcz (likely her uncle) and Anna Szczepanik. She was known as Pauline but was listed as “Polly Scravch” in the 1910 census which is an example of the challenges in doing genealogy. That must have been what it sounded like when her parents reported to the census worker.