Beranek Revisited

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Gary Don Luckert
  on April 22, 2008 8:33 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I was unhappy I was so unprepared for the first visit and the sun washed out my photos, so a week later--today--I went back with Crayolas, large sketch pad, duct tape, pen, and notebook and now can provide the relevant photos and family history.

The small tombstone for Grandpa Koftan's grandma, Rose Hlinovsky, looks like this.

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Shawn Ellingson made it somewhat clearer, especially the bottom phrase, with his Adobe Photo Shop.

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The rubbing makes the inscription even clearer.  I don't want any complaints.  Because of the cursed knee replacement, I did these lying on my side.

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What it says under the cross is:  Rose, Wife of Martin Hlinovsky, Died Aug. 29, 1877, Aged 47 years, [decorative design,] then out of sight at the bottom, "Only gone before."
 
Next to her is one of her daughters, a sister to Francis/Fannie Hlinovsky Koftan, one of two who married Joseph Zelenka.  Notice that she died the same year as her mother, six years after they came across the ocean and made it out as far as Nebraska in 1871.  At the top is "At Rest in Heaven."  Under Died is Oct. 20, 1877; underneath that Aged 27 y 1 m.  Actually, as can be noted, the last numbers are now buried too.
 
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Between her and her husband are two sons.  I'll again show the original and then the rubbing.  The west side is blank.  Why this marker is turned around I can't guess.  I mean the other tombstones face west; this one, east.  Again, Shawn used his Adobe Photo Shop to help clear up the inscriptions, because the mineral salt corrosion is fairly bad.

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The left side is for Vaclav, Born Sept. 27, 1875, Died Sept. 12, 1879; the right side is for George, Born April 9, 1873, Died Sept. 21, 1879.  Children of Joseph & Mary Zelenka.  At the bottom is part of Isaiah 40:11 (not cited on the marker):  "He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom."  It is difficult to read.  Vaclav is the Czech form for Wenceslas, the famous Good King of the carol and a saint, Wenceslas frequently a church name here and the renowned square in Prague.

Two views of Joseph Zelenka's tombstone: 

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The vertical portion has a large Z, barely visible.  The inscription at the bottom in three rows says:  Joseph Zelenka, Born Dec. 25, 1812, Died Aug. 3, 1894.
 
Some ironies and errors must exist, because he is buried back here with his first wife; his second, Catherine by Tyndall cemetery records (family used K), sister to Mary, is given the same dates as her father, Martin, 1819-1891.  Martin Hlinovsky, Catherine, and several Zelenkas, mostly young, are buried at Tyndall; so I have another cemetery to visit to finish this part of the family.  Martin is buried far from Rose, as Katherine is buried far from Joseph, her sister, and her mother. Rose.  [Great] Aunt Babe's "Memories" mentions visiting Fannie's relatives near Pawnee City for supper and overnight.
 
I suspect shirt-tail family are still in the area, because in the Czech National Cemetery, with its handsome entrance in Czech, is the tombstone below, Albert Zelenka dying on Mom's birthday.  The couple have been dead for some time, but someone put the flowers there.
 
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Here is the entrance to the cemetery two or three miles east of Table Rock:
 
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NOTE:  Robert Clayton [Hlinovsky] reminded me that, if one Googles "Flickr:Welfl," Mike Welfl's photo shows up.  If one clicks on it, all his pictorial blogs come up; on the right, click on "Early 1900s,'' and in the earliest large-family photo is a Rose A. Hlinovsky Welfl.  Welfl identifies his family connections to Bon Homme County and Tyndall in South Dakota.

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