Emma
(Lowry) Cramer Agona
(1897-1986)
Emma B. (Lowry)
Agona was born on Aug. 30, 1897 in Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Gipson
and Anna (Minerd) Lowry. Little is known of her life.
Emma may have been raised in and around the coal mining patch town of Fairbanks, near Uniontown, Fayette County.
Emma's
first husband was John A. Cramer. They were married on July 28, 1915, when Emma
was age 18. They resided in Penn Twp., Westmoreland County, PA, and had one
daughter, Anna Mae Cramer.
Later, on June 9, 1926, Emma married her second husband, Athony (or "Anthony") Agona (1895- ? ). His parents were Italian immigrants. They had at least one daughter, Jeannette M. Agona.
Athony and Emma also lived in Penn Twp., Westmoreland County, when the federal census was taken in 1930. He was listed as a "merchant - proprietor"'
Three years later, in May 1933, at the death of her father, Emma was residing in Jeannette, Westmoreland County.
A
rare old photographic postcard view of a trolley crossing the Second Street
Bridge in Jeannette is seen here.
Daughter Anna Cramer was married Nov. 22, 1941.
Daughter Jeannette Agona was married Sept. 6, 1945.
Emma is believed to have passed away in Jeannette in March 1986.
Any other details of their lives are unknown.
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