Re: need translation help with stone
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Re: need translation help with stone
Margaret Walker 2/06/04
I am sorry but I should have been a little more specific about the National Bohemian Graveyard of Howard County, Nebraska. My Tuma Family have lived in House No. 3, in the town of Janov, district of Sedicany, Tabor Region, Czechoslovakia for over four hundred years.They also resided in the towns of Dohnalova Lhota (district of Kosova Hora), Auklid, and Luhy.Myr Grandfather Jacob Tuma's parents, John Tuma and Anna (Kriz Pesak) were married February 19, 1855, in House No. 9, Dohnalova Lhota, Kosova Hora; on the certificate John was listed as a cottager (cottagers were day laborers who owned a small house with enough land around it for a small garden and a few small animals.Day laborers worked for small or large farmers as field laborers, stable hands, kitchen and house servants or were weavers, carpenters, coopers or blacksmiths).The marriage record states that the fiances received permission to get married from their fathers, as they were both minors.However, Anna was a widow when she married John, her first husband was Frank Pesak and she was brought up in the Catholic faith.Anna had a young son from her first marriage and when it came time for her and John Tuma to leave for America in 1867, her first husband's parents came and took the boy and hid him so she couldn't take him to America.Anna had to leave without him as their tickets were already bought and it was time to go;John and Anna Tuma had five children before leaving Czechoslovakia:Josephine, Mary Anna (Marie), Joseph, Anton and John G.; Jacob and Michael were not born until they arrived in the United States.This should give you some idea of our lineage and how the trip to America began in sadness.
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