I am the great granddaughter of Martin Andrew Kichta, who came to America around 1895 from, if I have the right Ellis Island records, Kravany. Martin and Mary had five children, Paul, Coleman, John, Irene, and Phillip and lived in Pittsburgh, PA and Sanford, VA. My grandfather is John Joseph and he and his wife Alleatha Doris White had five children: Arlis, Florence, Mary, John and Harry Herman, my father. I have recently found some of the siblings of Martin who lived in Pittsburgh also and were only minutes away from my family and we never knew them since they went by the name of Kichty. Both families have stories that the family name was originally "Kichtadragos" or "Kyktadragos."
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