MEIGS COUNTY OHIO -  Naturalization Record of Nick BALION
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PRELIMINARY FORM FOR PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION

                                This form is NOT a petition, but is used to

                                obtain essential information, which must be

                               furnished by the applicant BEFORE a petition

                                            may be filed.

                                                 

I desire to petition for naturalization in the Common Pleas Court, at Pomeroy, 
Meigs County, Ohio. The following information is furnished that you may arrange 
for my preliminary examination, and that the necessary papers may be sent to the 
Clerk of Court:

My full, true, and correct name is Nick Balion .

I have used another name Yeznik Balion and Mpalian Gicsnik.

The name on my steamship ticket was Yeznik Balion.

 

1. My present residence is Pomeroy, Ohio .

My post office address is Pomeroy, Ohio .

2. My present occupation is Coal Miner .

3. I was born on August 5, 1878 at Dardanelles, Turkey.

4. (a) The place where I took the ship or train which landed in the United States was 
Dardanelles Turkey on May 16, 1909 .

(b) I landed in the United States at New York on June 25, 1909.

(c) The name of the ship or railway of which I came was Themistocles.

(d) If by ship : Name of steamship line was _______ I came by 3rd cabin.

(e) I arrived as ( passenger, stowaway, deserting seaman, or otherwise) Passenger .

(f) The person in the United States I was coming to was Nobody.

(g) The place in the United States that I was going to was Gassaway, West Virginia.

(h) The names of some of the persons or passengers I traveled with were Myself.

(i) I purchased the ticket on which I came to this country at Dardanelles,Turkey.

It was purchased by Myself.

5. (a) The date of my Declaration (first paper) is December 26, 1918 .

(b) It was made in the Common Pleas Court, located at Pomeroy, Meigs,Ohio.

6. I am not married. (never been married).

7. The foreign country of which I am now a subject or citizen is Turkey .

8. I can speak English.

9. (a) I have resided continuously in the United States sinceJune 25, 1909.

(b) I have resided in the state where I now live since 1915.

10. I have not previously made a petition for naturalization (second paper).

11. If you wished to have your name changed , give full name you desire Nick Balion.

12. Witnesses : Carl Sauvage, Mercantile Clerk, Pomeroy,Ohio

Norman Zweifel, Auto Dealer, Pomeroy, Ohio

 

This record was transcribed from the original which is located in the Meigs County Courthouse.

Transcribed on March 14, 2001 by Maria Leamond and Tiffany Barnes.