Jovain “John” Bajovich

Jovain “John” Bajovich

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Age 34

Born abt 1883 in Serbia

Married with 2 children

Buried in Block 13, Section 1, Lot 8, Grave 2 at Mountain View Cemetery in Butte

Jovain “John” Bajovich.1 was born in Serbia, the son of Obrian “Bijovich” His mother’s name is unknown.2.

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John was still unaccounted for on June 11, 1917, as stated in a news article from The Butte Daily Post.3

According to a June 14th newspaper article, “The funeral of John Bijovich was held at 1 o’clock today under the auspices of the Serbian society No. 113 at Carpenter’s hall. A large majority of the members of the local Serbian society attended the last rites at the Serbian Orthodox church and followed the remains to the Mountain View Cemetery, where interment was made.”4

Copyright (c) 2023, Lark M. Dalin Robart

Image/Photo credits

  1. Serbian flag: canstockphoto.com

SOURCES: 

 

  1. Alternate spelling: Bojovich ↩
  2. State of Montana Bureau of Vital Statistics, death certificate 21833 (1917), John Bijovich; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Montana County Births and Deaths, 1830-2011,” Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Feb 2023), citing Montana State Historical Society, Helena, Montana. ↩
  3. “Official List of the Dead in the North Butte Fire Determined by Coroner,” Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Montana), 28 June 1917, p. 11; image copy, Genealogybank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 14 June 2016), Newspaper Archives. ↩
  4. The Butte daily post. (Butte, Mont.), 14 June 1917. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85053058/1917-06-14/ed-1/seq-16/> ↩

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