West of Tyndall a half mile or so is the Tyndall Cemetery on the south side of the road. (A newer, larger cemetery is farther west where Emil and Elsie Kaftan, Laurence's cousins, are buried.) It didn't take long to find Martin Hlinovsky, the father of Great Grandmother Frances (Fannie) Hlinovsky Koftan, at the north end of another family row, just like the one his wife, Rose, is at the south end of in the Pawnee County (Nebraska) Beranek Cemetery. Same small white stone, unfortunately broken. Born 11 November 1819; died 13 May 1891.
Running south of his are all Zelenkas except for a tall spike for two Koftan infants. Next to him is Elmer Zelenka, the stone simply dated 1897-1975. Then the Koftan spike for Eva, 2 years, and Clara, 5 months. Holly Zelenka, her stone almost hidden under the iris around the Koftan spike, has simply 1900. Next is the mysterious Catherine Zelenka, b. 23 September 1819, d. 17 March 1881. Philipp Zelenka, b. 17 July 1889, d. 24 September 1910, has the little lamb. Next is Ernest Zelenka, for whom I should have made a rubbing, the days hard to read: b. May 1855, d. July 1898. At the south end is Katie Zelenka, b. 14 September 1854, d. 30 March 1902. I'll show the individual stones in the next entry, but below simply show the row looking north along the first lane into the cemetery from town.
This means that the listing above is in reverse, from Holly Zelenka to Martin Hlinovsky here. Just west of the main entrance lane, in the third row, are Vincent, b. 27 October 1859-d. 24 October 1894, and Elnora Ann Koftan, b. 13 February 1871-d. 22 December 1929.
As the photo below shows, Joseph Koftan's brother, Laurence's uncle, and his wife are on the main road in where the cemetery title is, the next one after the Hlinovsky-Zelenka-Koftan grouping.
A bit west of the next, third lane are the two Kaftan couples, John (1870-1936) and Elsie (1880-1957) and Frank (1867-1952) and Marie (1872-1950), only the years on the stones.
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