This will be the umpteenth time I've battled the annoying editing functions, though at least I was able to go back and mostly correct the recent Peters cemetery entry, which originally apparently saved any error or glitch I made for the finished product. So here goes. This is mainly pictorial anyway, with the row of family graves around Martin Hlinovsky. I've already cited the dates and will make very few comments.
According to the family records, this was a daughter of Martin and Rose Hlinovsky, a sister of Mary and Frances (Fanny), the first wife of Joseph Zelenka, Jr.. According to Robert Clayton's findings, Great Grandma Koftan (Fanny) at 13 was living with her father, Martin, and the Joseph and Kate Zelenka family in the 1880 census in Franklin, Richardson County, Nebraska. Joseph is buried with Mary, his first wife, in the Beranek Cemetery, Pawnee County (NE), as earlier noted.
The next gravestone is for Ernest Zelenka, and all I have are the inscribed dates, May 1855-July 1898.
Likewise for Philipp Zelenka,
I need to return to make a rubbing of this tombstone for Catherine Zelenka, a bit of a mystery, since some records have Kate Hlinovsky Zelenka originally Catherine, though this one's dates [b. 23 September 1819-d. 17 March 1881] clearly overlap Martin Hlinovsky [11 November 1819-13 May 1891]. There are two Joseph Zelenkas, Sr. and Jr., the latter married to the two Hlinovsky women by our records, but that may be the key to this lady. (And I didn't check out the Zelenka graves at Springfield, SD.) It would be handy if she were married to Joseph, Sr., and the mother of all these Zelenkas.
Partially covered by the iris around the Koftan spike is Holly Zelenka, obviously an infant death.
And these two would have been sisters to Laurence Koftan, daughters to Joseph and Frannie, granddaughters to Martin Hlinovsky, two of the three (an Edith is missing) who allegedly died of diphtheria, though we had different dates for them.
Another Zelenka, Elmer, simply noted by his years, 1897-1975.
And a look back southward from Martin's grave down the family row.
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