• Joseph's marriage license application lists his birth date as 28 Dec 1866. 5 This date can be disproven by his birth record entry in the Ober-Metzenseifen church records.
• He appeared in the 1900 census on 13 Jun 1900 in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny, PA. 6
Joseph married Catherina SCHMOTZER, daughter of Josephus SCHMOCZER and Maria FRINDT, on 11 Apr 1888 in St. Joseph, Carnegie, PA.1 (Catherina SCHMOTZER was born on 6 Apr 1869 in Ober-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 2, died on 5 Dec 1937 in Carnegie, Allegheny, PA 3 and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Carnegie, PA 4.)
Sources
1
Joseph Fleckinger, Marriage Record of Joseph Orient and Katherine Schmotzer, (Pittsburgh, PA, 11 Apr 1888).
2
St. Mary Magdalene Parish Register, Christening Records, 1807-1886, (Ober Metzenseifen, Slovakia (LDS Film 2010722)).
3
Sr. Beatrice Orient, The Orient Family Tree (unpublished), (Pittsburgh, PA, Aug 1997).
4
Thomas Hoey, Cemetery Headstone, St. Joseph Cemetery, (Carnegie, PA, 28 Dec 2000).
5
Clerk of the Orphan's Court, Application for Marriage License for Joseph Orient and Katherine Schmotzer, (Pittsburgh, PA, 6 Apr 1888).
6
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, 1900 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 516, Sheet 10, Line 55.
