Individual Details

Immigration

Written by Anastasia L. Topping and posted on FindAGrave:

The immigration history of Georgia's family is difficult to trace, at best. Her father, Nikolaos Georgios Demas (also found as Dimas, Dimos, Dames, and other variations), initially, it appears, came to the United States around the turn of the centuryby himself. On (what appears to be either his third or fourth trip from Greece to the United States) August 27, 1905, he and his eldest daughter, Vasiliki (who later adopted the given name of Sylvia), arrived at the port of New York. Nikolaos is reported to have gone back to Greece sometime in 1912 as is Vasiliki.

On November 7, 1906, the mother of Georgia -- Demera (aka Demetroula) Makris Demas, is shown, via the S.S. LaBretagne, arriving at the port of Ne York with Vasiliki and also her younger daughter, Georgia. While it is possible that Vasiliki went back to Greece between 1905 and 1906, it is HIGHLY unlikely and more likely that Demetra gave the names of both of her children for some reason.

Only Nikolaos, Georgia's father, and her uncle Peter Demas, were found to be living in Steubenville, Ohio during the taking of the 1910 Census. It would appear that the rest of the family had moved back to Greece by that time.

Nikolaos, with his daughter Vasiliki, arrived for a second time at the port of New York on September 7, 1915. Demetra and her two other children--Georgios and Georgia--arrived on October 5, 1920 at New York via the S.S. Megali Hellas.

It is unclear to me, at this point, as to whether the mother and father of Georgia Demas Karangelen (and her siblings) stayed in the United States or moved back to Greece permanently. The last account of either being mentioned in a written document appears to be their son's, Georgios' wedding to Helen M. Kappas in a 1933 newspaper article (Cincinnati, Ohio), which only mentions Georgios' father and not his mother. It would have been highly irregular for a parent to not have been included in that type of article had she/he been alive at the time of the announcement.

Genealogical Compilation & Comments by
Anastasia L. Topping (Αναστασια Λ. Ποπιτζη)
22nd of December, 2020, 6:26 p.m.

Death

Death information: see notes under Story by granddaughter, Georgeann Morekas

Story

Posted by Georgeann Morekas on the Facebook group, Amykle-Sklavohori-Mahmoutbei-Godena-Peristeri Village History Group, April 11, 2021

My grandmother, Georgia Demas Karangelen, was born in Amykles, May 27, 1905. She, her sister Vasiliki and mother Dimitra (nee Makris), departed Greece in 1906 with husband and father Nicholas Demas and traveled to OH. A sister, Stavroula was born in OH and died as an infant in late 1907. Yiayia's brother, George, was born in OH in 1909. The family returned to Greece in 1911. Great-grandfather Nicholas and his daughter returned to the US in 1915. "Vasilo" married George James Stamatikis of Brokers in the US in late 1918. Dimitra, Georgia and George travelled to the US with Annitsa (Adrianos) Arbes in 1920. The Demas' were reunited in OH. In 1921 my grandparents were married (info in obituary). Dimitra and Nicholas Demas returned to Greece in 1922. Dimitra passed approx 1936 and Nicholas 1939-1940 timeframe. Memory eternal.