THE HUSTOLES FAMILY in AMERICA a Czech-American Heritage
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THE HUSTOLES FAMILY IN AMERICA A Czech-American Heritage 1882-2002 COMPILED BY JANE HUSTOLES HIMEBAUGH EXTENDED RESEARCH BY LOUISE BUSACK ROKOS ⎯⎯⎯⎯ 2006 THE HUSTOLES FAMILY IN AMERICA Copyright © 2006 by Jane Hustoles Himebaugh All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission. Printed in the United States of America on acid free paper www.himebaugh.com/jane/ [email protected] KINKOS / HECKMAN ICI North Manchester, IN 46962 Two Thousand Six HOW TO USE THIS BOOK This book uses the format of the Register System for following the numbering of family members and their progeny. Number one is given to the family patriarch, Jakub, although not himself an immigrant to America, however his wife, Rozalie, was. Then his children are numbered with small Roman numerals. Only those children known to have produced offspring will continue, being numbered with Arabic numbers to the left side of the small Roman numerals. Thus, in this first generation only three children came to America and their descendants, where known, are followed throughout this book numbered in consecutive order. These three children, Jan, Marie and Josef, are first generation Americans as well as immigrants, and their descendant lines are followed and listed separately in the body of the book. However, their progeny are numbered as a whole, starting with their father, Jakub, as number one. To the best of my knowledge and to date, this is the Hustoles family in America in its entirety. This book is not meant to be read from beginning to end, but rather to be used as a reference guide for finding family members or tracing your ancestors. The numbering system allows you to easily work backwards from yourself when looking for your ancestors. Use the index to find a name, and then follow that family within the pages of the book. The index does include women by both their maiden and married names unless they have chosen to retain the use of their maiden name. The maiden name is generally indicated by a parenthesis when both names are used together. Super numerals are of course used as footnotes, however they are also used here as generation numbers following a given name, when listing a line of generations for an individual. An example: John (6.John3, 2.Jan2, 1.Jakub1) shows the super numeral after the name indicating the generation, and the Arabic number before the name telling where he or she is listed on the genealogical register. ABBREVIATIONS abt. - on or about adpt. - adopted b. - born bap. - baptized bef. - before bur. - buried ca. - (circa) about cem. - cemetery Ch. - Church Co. - County d. - died div. - divorced d/o - daughter of DOB - date of birth DOBap - date of baptism Dr. - a title prefix for Doctor (doctorate degree) d.y. - died young e.g. - (exempli gratia) for example g.s. - gravestone or tombstone Ibid. - (ibidem) in the same place - see previous reference i.e. - (id est) that is i.m.p. - in my possession, of the compiler (or so noted) LDS - Latter Day Saints (church reference library) lic. - license (as in marriage license) liv.- living or lived m. - married/ marriage n.d. - no date nee - born (i.e. maiden name) No. - number p./ pp. - page/ pages prob. - probable/probably rec. - record, records or recorded Sec. - section sic. - thus, so the record states (as in so spelled) s/o - son of twin - twin birth Twp. - township unm. - unmarried Vol. - volume VR - Vital Record of death, marriage or birth [..] - additional information inserted by the compiler The two letter postal abbreviations for states will be used. THE HUSTOLES FAMILY IN AMERICA 1882-2002 Contents Prologue 1 The Name 3 Introduction 5 Coming to America 0.1 The First Immigrant Family 7 First Generation 1.2 The First Immigrant Son 17 1.3 The Immigrant Daughter 21 1.4 The Second Immigrant Son 25 Second Generation of Immigrant 2.2 Jan Hustoles (1852-1916) 31 2.3 Marie Hustoles (1858-1926) 39 2.4 Josef Hustoles (1867-1931) 43 Third Generation of Immigrant 3.2 Jan Hustoles (1852-1916) 45 3.3 Marie Hustoles (1858-1926) 61 3.4 Josef Hustoles (1867-1931) 63 Fourth Generation of Immigrant 4.2 Jan Hustoles (1852-1916) 69 4.3 Marie Hustoles (1858-1926) 77 4.4 Josef Hustoles (1867-1931) 79 Fifth Generation of Immigrant 5.2 Jan Hustoles (1852-1916) 85 5.4 Joseph Hustoles (1867-1931) 91 Sixth Generation of Immigrant 6.2 Jan Hustoles (1852-1916) 93 Descendant Charts The First Immigrant Son 95 The Immigrant Daughter 103 The Second Immigrant Son 107 Index of Names 115 Illustrations Bohemian Immigrant Brothers i Josef and Jan Hustoles Hustoles Family Chart ii European Ancestors Family Matriarch iii Rozálie (Weigertová) Hustoles Jaske Advertising for “City of Berlin” iv “City of Berlin” v Family Immigration Chart vi Marie (Hustoles) Hemerka Family vii Josef and Anna Hustoles viii John Hustoles Family ix Prologue Within these pages you can trace your grandparents―find cousins you didn’t know you had. Or maybe, as you read this you will conjure up memories of good times spent with aunts and uncles. We have been in these United States for only 120 years. We can take our place among the many immigrant families that flooded this country in the late 1800s. We may not be important among the numbers, but isn’t it important to you to know who you are, and where you came from, so you can decide where you’re going in your own small scheme of things? It is to me, and that was my purpose in writing this book. Before I started research on this family, I didn’t know the last name of my own grandmother. And after I found out that there were twins in our family, I was on my mission to find them, along with everyone else, and put them in their respective places on our own family tree. In 2000 I found a second cousin through the Internet who coincidently grew up not far from me in my hometown of Westchester, Illinois, although we’d never met. She provided the missing links to this family history making the publication of this book possible. Thanks…Louise Rokos. Never forget your roots⎯where you came from, your culture, or your values⎯the broader your base, the taller your ascent on the tree of life. ⎯J L H 1 2 The Name HUSTOLES Origin: Bohemia (Central Europe) Czech Pronunciation: OOS-toh-les Meaning: Dense Forest or Thick Wood 3 4 Introduction The name HUSTOLES is rare. The origin is Bohemian— Bohemia, being one of five former Central European countries, along with Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Ruthenia that made up Czechoslovakia. In 1993 an amicable split in the state of Czechoslovakia produced what is now the Czech and Slovak Republics. Today the Czech Republic encompasses what were once the countries of Bohemia, Moravia and part of Silesia. The Czech Republic is bounded on the north by Poland, on the south by Austria, on the west by Germany and on the east by the Slovak Republic, formerly Slovakia and Ruthenia. We can trace our American roots and our Bohemian name back to two Czech immigrant brothers who arrived here separately in the mid 1880s, seeking work and looking for those “streets paved with gold.” Jan Hustoles came first in 1882 at the age of 30 with his stepfather. Both their wives and children followed fifteen months later. His younger brother, Josef Hustoles, would arrive in 1886 at the age of 19. A third sibling, Marie Hustoles, made the journey the year before her brother Josef in 1885 at the age of 27. Although the origin of this family is in Bohemia, as a whole these children and their parents spent their last ten years in Europe, living in Slovakia very close to the Ukraine border town of Uzhorod, before immigrating to America. It is believed some of their siblings remained in their Czech homeland. The family came from Bohemia and at the time of their emigration this country was still a part of the larger Austro- Hungarian Empire under the rule of Emperor Francis Joseph. Church and Parish records were kept in varying languages from Czech to Hungarian, German and Latin depending on the location. The spelling of names often changed with the records location and the time period in which they were written. 5 This book chronicles the descendants of both immigrant brothers, Jan and Josef Hustoles, as well as their sister, Marie (Hustoles) Hemerka. The family first settled in the coal- mining town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Within eight years the brothers would move on to Chicago. Their sister Marie with her new family would remain behind making her home in Pennsylvania. Much of the detail of the family of Josef Hustoles was taken from a family history written in 1986 by his daughter Frances E. Hustoles. His granddaughter, Louise (Busack) Rokos, has been verifying family stories and collecting records for 20 years and recently commissioned the Czech firm, P.A.T.H. FINDERS Intl, to continue the research of the Hustoles roots in Bohemia. In turn, I have spent many years gathering Chicago records of the descendants of Jan Hustoles, which ended in the culmination of this book. As a reference guide you will find family members listed on a descendant chart as well as a chronological register of descendants with an index of names at the back of this book. Start at the beginning, and you will meet some of the first three generations in narratives depicting their lives garnered from both public records and family stories.