? Truan = Eliza Trevaskis
(1856–?)
David Jamison Davis
(1870–1930)
= Suesanna A. Rankin
(1868–1947)
JOHN T. TRUAN
(1890–1962)
= MILDRED IRENE DAVIS
(1896–1975)
Thomas David
(1922–1959)

=
Marilyn Grace
(1924–2008)

=

Naomi Halsey King
(1920–1959)
Clair Burdette Chandler
(1915–2003)
David Burdette
Suesanna Janes (Barnes)





NAME
John T. Truan
Mildred Irene Davis

DOB
30 May, 1890
27 June, 1896

LOCATION
South Fayette, PA
Pitcairn, PA

DOD
1962
July, 1975

INTERNMENT
Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery, Bethel Park, PA
Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery, Bethel Park, PA

MILITARY SERVICE



OCCUPATION
Coal Mine Laborer; Shipyard Bolter;
Signal Plant/Steelmill Machinist



NOTES
John was born in Maryland, and both parents, in England. In 1910 he was living with his mother, Eliza, and brother, Thomas, in Mahanoy (Ward 5), Schuylkill Co., PA, working as a laborer in a coal mine. In 1920 John and his mother were living with his sister and family (Mary and Frank Messerschmidt) in Philadelphia (Ward 40), where he was a bolter in a shipyard. By 1930 John and Mildred were married and living with her parents and their children in Edgewood, PA, where he worked as a machinist in a signal plant. In 1940, they were still living with Susanna in Edgewood where he worked as a machinist in a steel mill. Marilyn is the author of Hamlet to Highways: A History of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, with illustrations and photographs by her husband, Clair (self-published, 1988).





YEAR
LOCATION
HEAD
OCCUPATION
SPOUSE
CHILDREN AT HOME

1930
Edgewood, PA
David J. Davis (60)
Retired
Suesanna Davis (61)
John T. Truan (39) (Son-in-law)
Mildred Irene (34)
David Truan (8)
Marilyn G. Truan (5)

1940
Edgewood, PA
Suesanna Davis (73)


Mildred Truan (44)
John Irene (50)
Thomas Truan (18)
Marilyn Truan (16)




Truan


Davis-Chandler


Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery, Bethel Park, PA
Original photographs (2011) in the possession of John H. Wallace



Marilyn-Obit