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Descendants of William Prines

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM¹ PRINES was born 1870 in Kalwary, Suwalki,Lithuania, and died December 05, 1955 in Trafford, Pennsylvania. He married ELIZABETH ENICK, daughter of XAVIER ENICK and ALEXANDRIA. She was born May 20, 1869 in Kalwary, Suwalki,Lithuania, and died 1960 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania.

Notes for WILLIAM PRINES:
Born in 1870 in Lithuania. He and a sister were orphaned when young and raised by family friends. They were Lithuanian and French, but spoke Lithuanian fluently. His sister's name was Katrina Prines and she was younger than her brother. The last name "Prines" was also spelled "Printz" and "Prainis." Katrina married a man named John Wensconis and had three children, John, Joseph, and Anna. Their whereabouts are unknown. William died in 1955 at the age of 85. He resided at the home of his son, William, Jr. in Trafford, Pa.

William worked in the Tomajko Coal Mines at Scott Haven, Edna #1 and Edna #2. In the their early marriage, William and Elizabeth Enick Prines lived in the town of Scott Haven, a small mining community in Southwestern Pennsylvania. They then moved to Penn Station, Pennsylvania, where William, Sr. worked in the Penn Foundry doing mold work. Hw was a very friendly man, liked by all who met him, and enjoyed his beer like all the old miners did.

William was also a very good wood worker, carpenter, and farmer. He and Elizabeth moved to Burrell Hollow, in Penn Township, a rural suburb of Penn, Pennsylvania. They had a small farm, from which they sold produce, eggs, milk, cheese, etc. William supplemented the farm income by selling ice cream from a horse-drawn wagon every day, often accompanied by one of their small children.

Notes for ELIZABETH ENICK:
Born in Lithuania in 1878. She left behind her mother Alexandria Enick and her father Xavier Enick. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and came to America on a cattle boat. Her last name was also pronounced "Henick" and was also spelled as "Anick". Elizabeth could speak Lithuanian, German, Polish, Slavic, Russian, and English. She also understood the Jewish language. She died in 1960 at the age of 82 at the home of her daughter, Helen Prines Alonzo in Jeannette, Pa. She had a sister, Catherine Radzwick in Penn, Pennsylvania, and a brother Anthony Enick in eastern Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth was alos an excellent seamstress and crafts person, as well as a great baker. She did all her baking on a coal stove. She also took in boarders, and worked very, very hard at making a good life for her family. A great lover of flowers, she had one of the most attractive yards in Burrell. People would come from all over, just to see it and collect seeds from her plants to start their own gardens.

William and Elizabeth raised ten children in all.

Children of WILLIAM PRINES and ELIZABETH ENICK are:

2.	i.	WILLIAM² PRINES, b. October 18, 1896, Mahoning City, Pennsylvania; d. November 23, 1963, Trafford, Pennsylvania.
3.	ii.	MARY PRINES, b. October 18, 1896; d. 1918.
4.	iii.	THOMAS PRINES, b. 1898; d. 1947.
5.	iv.	ANNA PRINES, b. 1900; d. 1983.
	v.	MAGDALINE PRINES, b. 1902; d. 1907.
6.	vi.	OTTO PRINES, b. 1904; d. 1976.
	vii.	GEORGE PRINES, b. 1906; d. 1930.
7.	viii.	AGNES PRINES, b. 1907; d. 1976.
8.	ix.	MARY MAGDALENE PRINES, b. 1911.
9.	x.	HELEN PRINES, b. 1914.

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