Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Died:
House 7

Jiří married Plucar, Marie in UNKNOWN in Czech Republic. Marie (daughter of Plucar, Matouš (Matthew) and Leitkepová, Eva) was born in UNKNOWN in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Family/Spouse: Celoudová, Marianna. Marianna was born in UNKNOWN in Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Family/Spouse: Hledíková, Marie. Marie was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pribylová, Anna Marie. Anna (daughter of Pribyl, Josef and Šimánková, Marie) was born in UNKNOWN in Czech Republic; died on 9 Sep 1842 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Jiří married Nováková, Rozálie on 25 Nov 1838 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Rozálie was born in Šach, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Tomáš married Lojka, Katerina on 3 Mar 1835. Katerina was born in 1816 in Brandlín, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Trecková, Marie. Marie was born in Brandlín, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Josef married Procházková, Františka on 4 Nov 1851 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Františka was born on 22 Feb 1831 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Hotel Operator/Farmer
• Departure: 1869, Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic

Notes:

PETER KOUBA FAMILY COMES TO AMERICA
BY T. F. KOUBA

Peter Kouba, wife and three children, came to the promised land, the United States of America, by sailing vessel in 1869. Two girls were the oldest children, while Frank, the youngest, born November 25, 1868, became father of my sister, Helen, and me. Two additional children, William and Emil were born in Iowa.

The sailing trip from Europe to America was difficult beyond comprehension, and almost proved fatal. Storms, frequent and overpowering required the masts to be lowered to keep the boat from overturning and sinking, and then the boat road the wild waves and precious distance was lost. Able bodies (many were seasick) drew water from the boat with pails to keep it afloat. Prayers were truly from the heart!

Neither grandfather Peter, nor his brother John, who came later, had farmed. Peter Kouba's had an Inn where meals, beer, and lodging were available. John apparently assisted a large landowner to protect his timber and wildlife as poaching and illegal timber-cutting were common. Game in Austria-Hungary apparently was owned by the landowner, not the state.

Grandfather, farming for the first time, was totally helpless, as was brother John. It appears the Peter Kouba family came from Moravia, Austria Hungary, province of Talice, village of Radlice. That portion of Europe in now CZECHSLOVAKIA.

The land grandfather purchased, apparently sight-unseen, was forty acres on an unimproved road a few miles from Blairstown and Luzerne, Iowa, geographically location NWSW, Section 28, T.82N.R.11W.

Father Frank grew up enjoying farming and fortunately so, as grandfather apparently could not adjust. Dad, over the years, achieved extraordinary farming success. He was a talented accordion player and called dances, and played at many. Square dancing apparently was the farmers' principal recreation.

In 1897, Father married the most wonderful girl living, Emma Melsha, daughter of another Czech-American family several miles away.

Father realized to get farm produce more efficiently to Luzerne and Blairstown markets, one must live on a better road. He bought land and a farmstead along a better road about a mile North from his parents's farm.

Grandfather Peter died apparently of cancer in 1909 at Luzerne, where he and wife Frances were living. Grandmother died there in 1916.

My Father and Mother were kind, proficient, hard-working farmers. Mother not only did the cooking and other work inside the home, but many times worked in the fields along Father. In a few years they acquired an adjoing "40" ad so it went concentrating on raising quality corn, beef-cattle, and hogs. Then they hired a year-round farm hand who lived with them.

Father grew blue-ribbon quality corn and other small grain which he displayed at county and state fairs and won scores of prizes. His winnings brought commercial seed company representatives to his door. Oftentimes they purchased at double market price the entire corn crop of several thousand bushels, picked out the seed ears and left the remainder for him to use, without cost, for livestock feed. In cooking, Mother also excelled, winning more prizes, (12 of them), than Father with grain and occasionally joklingly reminded him that such a thing could happen.

Mother never refused a hungry person who came to the door for food, including homeless or unemployed men. They were given a nourishing meal which they ate sitting on the front porch. More than one offered to chop wood at the woodpile or perform other menial tasks for payment, but was refused. Father gave grain to covered-wagon gypsies who begged for grain for their tired horses. Women did the begging, carried grain in gunny sacks to the several wagons, which seemed already filled. . .with kids!

Mother died of continuing heart attachks; deeply felt by her few relatives alive, and her many friends, on October 19, 1935 at 60 years. Our dear father, Frank, died from malignant cancer at Helen's home where he was living on March 5, 1944 at age 75.

My precious sister, Helen, was born in 1899 at the farm homestead where I came along in 1902. From the beginning I was horribly sick for two years, requiring day and night care. Medical research years later recognized allergies and mine apparently was feathers. As baby, I as others in that era, slept in soft, warm featherbed and with down filled pillows. The sicker I became, the more love and feathers were piled around. After the doctor confided that one certain baby would have a short life, folks hired a photographer who came and while baby, weakly standing in nightshirt, and alone, took my picture. But the subject was out of focus. Sister Helen, about four years old, who wanted to stand with her sick brother, but was refused by the photographer, stood several steps back and come out in sharp focus.

My sister, always fortunately, was one of those never sick individuals. We came into a close friendship which has never weakened. She graduated in music from Coe College, became a strikingly successful high school music teacher, and strangely, began at Blairstown where she graduated, before she finished at Coe. Other schools where she taught included grade and high schools at Belle Plaine, Madrid, and St Charles, Iowa. Many persons came to her for private lessons.

In 1925 Helen married Milo Kopecky in the prestigious "Little Brown Church in the Vale", continued teaching music as time permitted and later on worked full-time at Collins Radio, which contributed notably to the World War II effort. Milo's untimely death of a heart attack occurred a few years ago, and is buried in Cedar Memorial Cemetery at Cedar Rapids where Helen expects to be buried also.

Ted in 1926 graduated in forestry at Iowa State College, (now University), where he participated in athletics and band. He became forester for the State of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory, where in 1929 at a University dance he was introduced to a beautiful and distinctly talented girl taking graduate work in English Literature from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After her graduation in 1930, we were married in the Congregation Church at Madison, Wisconsin, During her school career she was awarded memberships in three honorary sororities; Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Sigma Iota, and Pi Lambda Theta. And at this writing, after several strokes, darling Marie is in the Madison Convalescent Center in which we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary on August 3, 1990 to the tune of a fine orchestra, among many balloons, enjoying a large cake, and which fed all other patients, nurses, and aides. Maries' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Love are buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Salem, South Dakota. Marie and I will be buried at Forest Hill where we have an inscribed small marble gravestone.

Father and Mother, the Frank Koubas are buried on the hilltop in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Iowa as are grandparents Peter Kouba's and uncle Will Kouba.

Neither sister Helen and Milo have children, nor Marie and I, thus no continuing generations of the Peter and Frank Kouba's lineage will follow. Thus ends a resume of the Peter Kouba family which immigrated to the promised land, the magnificent United States of America in 1869.

Ted Kouba July 1, 1991

There were five children who died in Radlice and are buried there.

Birth:
House 7

Died:
Family Home

Peter married Lojka, Frances on 19 Sep 1852 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Frances (daughter of Lojka, Joseph and Nováková, Sarah Veronica) was born on 3 Oct 1835 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 24 Mar 1916 in Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried in Mar 1916 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Family/Spouse: Závodská, Katerina. Katerina was born on 11 Jan 1835 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Died:
House 5

Family/Spouse: Vítu, Jirí. Jirí was born on 16 Mar 1840 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 29 Sep 1905 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Family/Spouse: Lojka, Josef. Josef was born on 13 May 1803 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 1 Sep 1859 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Šimánek, Tomáš. Tomáš was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 48

Family/Spouse: Janu, Katerina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Family/Spouse: Kovárová, Marie. Marie (daughter of Kovár, Jan and Urbánková, Tereza) was born in Mysletice, South Moravia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There are a number of Plucars buried in the National Cemetrery in Vining, Tama, Iowa but I could not find Anna buried there. But there are a number of Plucars buried there that could easily be her children.

Family/Spouse: Plucar, N.N.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherina married Chalupská, Frank on 3 Jul 1853 in Nové Domky, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Frank was born on 28 May 1830 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 23 Jun 1903 in Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in Jun 1903 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He arrived in the United States on 04 Nov 1881 in New York aboard the ship Denmark with his wife and three children.

Birth:
House 22

Pavel married Vitu, Marie on 22 Nov 1853 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Marie was born on 31 Jan 1837 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 25 Feb 1925 in Scio, Linn, Oregon, USA; was buried on 27 Feb 1925 in Franklin Butte Cemetery, Scio, Linn, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Jan married Lojka, Josefa "Josephiny" on 18 Oct 1853 in Velká Lhota, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic. Josefa (daughter of Lojka, Joseph and Nováková, Sarah Veronica) was born on 15 May 1837 in Šach, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 22 May 1925 in Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried after 22 May 1925 in International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Notes:

Birth:
House 4

Notes:

Birth:
House 35

Family/Spouse: Dobrovolná, Anna. Anna was born in 1829. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 35

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Notes:

Birth:
House 38

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1915, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA

Notes:

Arrived with his family, wife Francisca, daughter Francisca, son Jan (John), son Pieter (Peter Frederick) grandfather of Jack Otta. A third son, Frank Kouba, came to the USA earlier to avoid being drafted into the Russian army. Departed from Rotterdam. Immigration dates of 26 Jun 1883 vs 1893

Birth:
House 38

Died:
Home of John Kouba

Jiří married Bártu, Francis in 1870 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Francis was born in 1853 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 12 Feb 1918 in Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried after 12 Feb 1918 in Riverside Cemetery, Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter
• Religion: Vining Congregational Church, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: Between 1874 and 1892, Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine
• Residence: Between 1892 and 1897, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: Between 1897 and 1917, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA

Notes:

According to the July 26, 2003, geneology reort for 'Decendents of George Kouba" prepared by Dorothy E. Booth Barborek, the family lived for 18 years in Russia and emigrated to the USA in 1892.

The family immigrated to America and arrived on July 20th, 1892 on the ship Scandia.

Frank learned the carpenter trade in Vienna. He was a self-employed carpenter and followed the trade all his life.

Frank and his wife Frances were members of the Vining Congregational Church.

Birth:
House 17

Frank married Leitkep, Frances in 1870 in Valtínov, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Frances was born on 22 Aug 1848 in Valtínov, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 18 Apr 1939 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in Apr 1939 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 17

Notes:

Birth:
House 17

Notes:

Birth:
House 20

Notes:

Birth:
House 20

Notes:

Birth:
House 20

Notes:

Birth:
House 13

Frances married Hes, Pavel on 30 Apr 1876. Pavel was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 13

Died:
House 13

Notes:

Birth:
House 13

Notes:

Birth:
House 13

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Died:
House 7

Notes:

Info from Cedar Rapids Gazette 20 Mar 1941: Funeral service in the Hus Memorial Church and burial in the Linwood cemetery in Cedar Rapids Iowa. She came to the USA when she was 11 years old. E Kouba has funeral bulletin.

Birth:
House 7

Died:
616 Summer Street

Frances married Challed, Antony in 1874 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. Antony (son of Celoud, Josef and Celoud, Mrs Mary) was born on 17 Jan 1852 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; died on 2 Sep 1905 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; was buried in Sep 1905 in Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Josie

Notes:

She moved to Chandler, Arizona with her husband, Jim Krepela. In August of 1941 the Emil Kouba family (Emil Sr., Laura, Marcella, and Emil Jr.) visited her while on a vacation trip out 'West'. She was very tearful when we left as she felt she would not see Emil Sr. again because she felt she was going to die soon. She was about 85 years old at that time.

Birth:
House 7

Josefka married Krepela, James Vencil "Jim" about 1880 in Tama, Tama, Iowa, USA. James was born on 12 Jul 1856 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 15 Apr 1941 in Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, USA; was buried in Apr 1941 in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Charles

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Congregational Church, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, USA

Notes:

Birth:
House 7

Died:
Helen Kopecky's Home

Frank married Melsha, Emma B in 1897 in Iowa, USA. Emma (daughter of Melsha, John and Late, Francis) was born on 30 Mar 1875 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; died on 19 Oct 1935 in Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried on 21 Oct 1935 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Died of measles. Buried in Lutheran Cemetery Luzerne, Benton, IA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant and Postmaster

Notes:

He and his brother Emil Sr., were merchants and ran the Kouba Bros. store in Luzerne, IA for 45 years. He graduated from Epworth Seminary (Methodist) in 1999. They were two members of a men's quartet in the Blairstown, IA, Methodist Episcopal church. The other two members of the quartet were the Meiners brothers. William was the Luzerne, IA postmaster for many years. He is buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, IA. He graduated from Epworth Academy, Epworth, Iowa in 1899. He was postmaster at Luzerne for 42 years, retiring in December 1944.

William married Rosburg, Amanda Elizabeth Susana on 9 Nov 1902 in Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA. Amanda (daughter of Rosburg, Wulf WILLIAM Frederich and Nieland, Maria Dorothea) was born on 19 Jul 1881 in Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA; died on 9 Mar 1946 in Virginia Gay Hospital, Vinton, Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried on 12 Mar 1946 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 1887, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA; White School South

Notes:

He died of prostate cancer. He graduated from Epworth Seminary, Epworth, Iowa in 1901. Then he went to Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa with an projected graduation date of 1904. However, in 1903 his Dad offered to buy A. J. Schriver's General Store in Luzerne for him and his brother William if he would drop out of College to help run the store. He went to a banker in Cedar Rapids for advice as to what to do. He wanted to go on and study to be a doctor.The banker advised him to take his Dad's offer, so he did. His Cornell year book shows his picture as ex '04, the year he would have graduated. He was baptised in the White school south of Luzerne. The Congregational circuit rider preacher came to Luzerne from Vining once a month to hold services. He fell off the back of a horse drawn wagon when he was a baby. His parents found him playing in the snow when they came back looking for him. He and his wife were married in the Westinghouse home in Belle Plaine. Mrs. Westinghouse was his wife's sister. He and his brother William were merchants and ran the Kouba Bros. store in Luzerne for 45 years. (From 1903 until 1948.) The store was also a post office for Luzerne. They initiated the first telephone service for the town by connecting he store and the two homes so additional clerks could be called when a lot of customers arrived in the store at the same time. The service expanded to include the rest of the town who asked. Yearly cost for the local service was about $7.50, (in the 1950s) which paid for the services of a full-time operator. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Belle Plaine, Iowa.

Birth:
Family Farm

Emil married Rosburg, Laura Maria on 1 Jan 1908 in Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, USA. Laura (daughter of Rosburg, Wulf WILLIAM Frederich and Nieland, Maria Dorothea) was born on 24 Feb 1887 in Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA; died on 9 Oct 1971 in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA; was buried on 13 Oct 1971 in Oak Hill Cemetery, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of an accidental shotgun wound. Birth date from Frank Kouba Ledger dated 1888. Emil Kouba Jr. has ledger. Yet JF Thoma info indicates a birth date of Dec 1881 with a death date of May 1909. Notes in Laura (Rosburg) Kouba "Our Family History" states that he was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery south of Luzerne, Iowa.

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Family/Spouse: Hes, Frank. Frank was born on 21 Aug 1888 in Sumrakov, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Josefa married Macku, Pavel (Paul) on 2 Nov 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Died:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Died:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Died:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Died:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 5

Notes:

Birth:
House 23

Notes:

Birth:
House 9

Died:
Residence

Frank married Novak, Mary in 1884 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Mary was born on 27 Feb 1864 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 23 Jan 1943 in Kansas, USA; was buried on 25 Jan 1943 in National Bohemian Cemetery, Cuba, Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Brabenec, Mary in 1873 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Mary was born in UNKNOWN in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died in 1884 in Cuba, Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 9

Notes:

Birth:
House 9

Died:
House 9

Notes:

Birth:
House 24

Notes:

Birth:
House 36

Notes:

Birth:
House 36

Josef married Bartonová, Anna on 7 Feb 1886. Anna was born on 31 Jul 1854 in Šach, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Anna married Trecek, Frank on 6 Feb 1870. Frank was born on 17 Aug 1836 in Šach, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Died:
House 6

Notes:

Birth:
House 6

Notes:

Birth:
House 35

Frank married Šimánek, Antonie on 19 Apr 1875. Antonie was born on 15 Dec 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 35

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Departure: 1870, Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Residence: 1880, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1882, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1896, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1900, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1910, Leroy, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1920, Leroy, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1 Jan 1925, Leroy, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1930, Orange, Black Hawk, Iowa, USA
• Death: 1939, Benton, Iowa, USA

Notes:

Year of birth as 1854 from International Cemetery Records.

Funeral Services Held Monday for Frank Chalupsky

Born in Bohemia in 1853. He came to America in 1870.

Mr. Frank Chalupsky, a retired farmer of the Luzerne community, passed away Saturday, April 22nd, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Benishek, living near this city. His death followed a protracted illness of many months.

Mr. Chalupsky was born in Bohemia on Feb. 27, 1853, and was 86 years of age on February 27 last. He came to America in 1870 and lived in Cedar Rapids for 8 years. December 9, 1877 he was married to Anna Loyka at Cedar Rapids and the next year moved to the Luzerne community. They were the parents of six children, namely, Mrs. Anna Benishek of this vicinity, Mrs. Eva Longhurst of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Emma Torrence of Iowa City, Chas. Chalupsky of Blairstown, Mrs. Lilly Petersen of Waterloo, and Mrs. Helen LaQuatte of Berkley, Calif. Also surviving are one brother, Paul Chalupsky of Vinton and one sister, Mrs. Antonia Ziha of Irving. There are twenty-four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Chalupsky preceded him in death, dying Dec. 26, 1924. One brother, Joseph, died in 1938.

Funeral services in charge of the Rev. J. Irvine Walker of this city and the Rev. W. H. Yoder of the Church of the Brethern of Waterloo were held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Congregational church in this city. Mrs. G. L. Edwards sang Rock of Ages and In the Garden with Mrs. Marie Penrose.

Pall bearers were his grandsons, Claire Banishek, Arting Langhurst, Ray Langhurst, Howard Petersen, and Bernard Chalupsky. Interment was made at the International cemetery south of Luzerne.

Frank married Lojka, Anna Veronica on 9 Dec 1877 in Benton, Iowa, USA. Anna (daughter of Lojka, Joseph and Nováková, Sarah Veronica) was born on 3 May 1856 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died in 1924 in Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried after 26 Dec 1924 in International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Smutrey, Mary on 28 Feb 1878 in Iowa, Iowa, USA. Mary was born on 28 Sep 1860 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; died in 1938 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in 1938 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Tena

Notes:

JOSEPH RIHA, VINING RESIDENT, DIED JULY 4

Services were conducted Monday at the Hrabak Funeral Home.
Joseph Riha, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riha, died Friday, July 4th at 1:00 o'clock a.m. at St. Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids. The cause of his death was cerebral hemorrhage.

Funeral services were conducted from Hrabek's Funeral Home Monday, July 7, Mr. T. B. Hlubusek, jr., of Cedar Rapids was in charge of the funeral. Burial was in the National cemetery in Vining.

Those surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Jim Shanda, and Mrs. Frank Strachata, three brothers, James, Emil and Louis Riha. Mr. Rihas' wife, the former Tena Chalupsky, preceded him in death in May 1946.

Mr. Riha was born in Bohemia, Europe, on July 11, 1874, and came to America 68 years ago. He was a long time resident of Vining and during his life time he had been a farmer. Mr. Riha was a member of the Z.C.B.J.

The Belle Plaine Union, Jul 7, 1947

Died:
Residence

Family/Spouse: Riha, Josef. Josef was born on 11 Jul 1874 in Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 4 Jul 1947 in St Luke Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; was buried in Jul 1947 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antonie married Vizner, Frank in 1881 in Tama, Iowa, USA. Frank was born in 1857 in Cáslav, North Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 5 Oct 1886 in Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in Oct 1886 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: KHQZ-NDN
• Residence: 1900, Oneida Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1910, Black Hawk Township, Grundy, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1920, Black Hawk Township, Grundy, Iowa, USA

Paul married Pameticky, Mrs Mary on 21 Jan 1888 in Tama, Iowa, USA. Mary was born on 11 Nov 1869 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 4 Apr 1964 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried after 4 Apr 1964 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pavel married Wranosky, Mary Magdalena on 1 Mar 1886 in Belleville, Republic, Kansas, USA. Mary was born on 28 Sep 1867 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA; died on 18 Apr 1943 in Belleville, Republic, Kansas, USA; was buried on 21 Apr 1943 in National Cemetery, Belleville, Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bártu, Frank. Frank was born on 15 Aug 1863 in Strimice, North Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 22 Aug 1955 in Albany, Linn, Oregon, USA; was buried on 24 Aug 1955 in Franklin Butte Cemetery, Scio, Linn, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Havlik, Frank on 24 Dec 1889 in Rushville, Sheridan, Nebraska, USA. Frank was born on 14 Nov 1864 in Rokytno, East Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 17 Oct 1912 in Oconto Falls, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in Oct 1912 in Morgan Cemetery, Morgan, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Joseph
• Occupation: Ditcher
• Departure: 1905, Radlice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic

Notes:

He was buried in the International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, IA. He was a 'ditcher'. Info per JF Thoma.
Buried in the International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, IA per JF Thoma.

Josef married Makovicka, Rozalie in 1892 in Czech Republic. Rozalie was born in 1864 in Czech Republic; died in 1937 in Benton, Iowa, USA; was buried in 1937 in International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Fannie

Notes:

Obituary in September 23, 1913 Marshalltown Iowa Times Republican newspaper says she was born in Kumzak, Bohemia, on July 24, 1872.

Birth:
House 15

Frances married Loyka, John on 26 Mar 1894. John was born in 1866 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died in 1925 in Iowa, USA; was buried in 1925 in International Cemetery, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1920, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA

Frank married Osvalt, Elizabeth Alzbeta "Lizzie" on 23 Oct 1906 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1887 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 19 Feb 1931 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; was buried after 19 Feb 1931 in Saint Johns Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
House 37

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1 Jan 1925, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1930, Indian Village Township, Tama, Iowa, USA

Peter married Lamer, Velma Pearl on 7 Oct 1914 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. Velma was born on 7 Oct 1895 in Marshall, Iowa, USA; died on 7 Jan 1997 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA; was buried in Jan 1997 in Riverside Cemetery, Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1920, York Township, Tama, Iowa, USA

Anna married Hladky, Vaclav on 21 Oct 1895 in Toledo, Tama, Iowa, USA. Vaclav was born on 20 Sep 1866 in Chrudim, East Bohemia, Czech Republic; died on 16 Feb 1911 in Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in Feb 1911 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Kupka, Emanuel M on 9 Dec 1896 in Toledo, Tama, Iowa, USA. Emanuel was born on 25 Feb 1869 in York Township, Tama, Iowa, USA; died on 16 Jan 1924 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; was buried in Jan 1924 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Macek, Mary. Mary was born on 3 Dec 1881 in Tama, Iowa, USA; died on 6 May 1940 in Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Zamastil, Emma on 21 Nov 1905. Emma was born on 15 Sep 1887 in Fairfax, Linn, Iowa, USA; died on 28 Nov 1971 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA; was buried after 28 Nov 1971 in Memorial Gardens, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary drowned in the Snake River on July 24, 1909 while on a family trip to Buhl, Idaho.

Mary married Kinner, Hiram Hubert on 26 Sep 1906 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. Hiram was born on 21 Sep 1884 in Oneida Township, Tama, Iowa, USA; died on 24 Dec 1970 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Station agent and bank manager
• Residence: 1951, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA

Notes:

He had a career with the railroad and became the station agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad until retirement in Dec 7, 1951. He then became manager of the Vining branch of the Clutier Sate Bank, retiring on Dec 31, 1964.
Paul and family lived in the Vining Railroad depot while Paul was station manager and telegraph operator. After retirement they moved into house that was the home of Mary's parents, Mr and Mrs Vencil Hrabak, and was deeded to Mary on Aug 30, 1947.
They lived in the house inherited by Mary from 1951 until their deaths. The house is located on Lots 3 and 4 Block 14 in Vining, Iowa and was bought by George R. Bazal and wife after Paul and Mary died.

Paul married Hrabek, Mary on 24 Jun 1908 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA. Mary was born on 3 Apr 1884 in Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA; died in 1973; was buried in 1973 in National Cemetery, Vining, Tama, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Info from Cedar Rapids Gazette 23 July 1910: Funeral service in the residence, 728 F Avenue West, and from the Bohemian Presbyterian church at Ninth Ave and 7th Street. Interment in the Linwood cemetery. E. Kouba has the Funeral record from the funeral director. The funeral cost a total of $254.

Adolph married Nejdl, Emma on 11 Sep 1900 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. Emma was born on 1 Dec 1876 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; died on 29 Sep 1966 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; was buried on 1 Oct 1966 in Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Pharmacist

Notes:

Info from Barta Funeral Home HISTORY SHEET: Druggist in Norway, IA for 25 years and for 20 years in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Died:
East Ave and 2nd Street Northwest

Charles married Sheridan, Bessie A on 27 Dec 1903 in Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA. Bessie was born on 2 Aug 1881 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; died on 12 Nov 1960 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried on 17 Nov 1960 in Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emil Kouba Sr. and his wife Laura, went to try to try to care for her during her sickness of flu that turned into pneumonia. People were so afraid of that type of flu that no one else would take a chance to get near enough to her to care for her. She died at 606 Summer street. That address is no longer there as an expressway was built over that area in the 1980s. She was a member of the Bohemian Presbyterian church and was buried in the Linwood cemetery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Pharmacist & owned Challed Pharmacy in Cedar Rapids

Frank married Skala, Olga M in UNKNOWN in Iowa, USA. Olga was born on 22 Sep 1899 in Iowa, USA; died on 3 Nov 1956 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried after 3 Nov 1956 in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Charley

Family/Spouse: Kovarik, Carolyn. Carolyn was born on 19 Nov 1889 in Tama, Tama, Iowa, USA; died in May 1977 in Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, USA; was buried in May 1977 in Valley of the Sun Mortuary and Cemetery, Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gillingham, N.N.. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lacina, Joseph. Joseph was born in 1884; died on 4 Jun 1963 in Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 24 Dec 1888, Tama, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1910, Columbia Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1920, Columbia Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1925, Tama, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1930, Columbia Township, Tama, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1940, Columbia Township, Tama, Iowa, USA

Blanche married Stoddard, John Henderson on 2 Jun 1909 in Tama, Iowa, USA. John was born on 6 Jan 1874 in Iowa, USA; died on 27 May 1971 in Reinbeck, Grundy, Iowa, USA; was buried after 27 May 1971 in Reinbeck Cemetery, Reinbeck, Grundy, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 31 May 1890, Leroy Township, Benton, Iowa, USA

Family/Spouse: Lemon, Roy Guy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Fee, Wilbur Way on 12 Dec 1913. Wilbur was born in 1882 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beckner, N.N.. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: WWI

Family/Spouse: Baker, Ruby Ruth. Ruby was born on 5 Nov 1905 in Nebraska, USA; died on 3 Jul 1994 in Yucca Valley, San Bernardino, California, USA; was buried in Jul 1994 in Desert Lawn Memorial Park, Calimesa, Riverside, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 18 Nov 1898, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA

Notes:

Emil Rosburg Kouba has date of birth as 18 Nov 1898 and city of birth as Blairstown and place of burial as Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Benton County death Records has date of birth as 18 Nov 1897.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Music Teacher

Notes:

Buried at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Her good friend for the last years of her life was Harry Kray. His daughter, Patricia, married Beryl W. Layton who were also a good friends to her. Pat helped Ted, Helen's brother, prepare Helen's house for sale after the funeral. Patricia and Beryl lived at 1530 Linmar DR. NE in Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 at the time of the funeral. Patricia attended Cornell College and graduated probably about 1953. She lived in Bowman Hall which had a dining hall. Emil Kouba Jr also ate at the Bowman dining hall and got acquainted with her because of that. Harry Kray was born in 1899 and grew up in Blairstown, IA, the same as Helen Kouba Kopecky, Helen graduated from Coe College with a degree in music on June 7, 1922. She taught music in Blairstown (1921-22), Belle Plaine and Madrid (Commencement May 22, 1924) Iowa. She later was employed at Kresge's Dollar Store and was a receiving imspector at Collins Radio for 17 years.

Helen married Kopecky, Milo Joseph on 27 Jun 1925 in Little Brown Church In The Vale, Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, USA. Milo was born on 18 Jun 1899 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; died on 3 Nov 1968 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA; was buried on 6 Nov 1968 in Cedar Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Forester

Notes:

The following is taken from the Ted’s book “WISCONSIN’S AMAZING WOODS then and now”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Theodore (Ted) F. Kouba, who was on the staff of the U.S. Forest Service for many years in Madison and in the regional office in Milwaukee, left that Service at the end of 1966 because the entire divisional office was moved to Pennsylvania and he wished to remain in Wisconsin. Thereafter for four years he worked on a temporary basis for the research and planning division of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He now lives in Madison with his wife Marie.
Ted Kouba was born on a corn and cattle farm near Blairstown, Iowa, in 1902. The land between his parents' prairie farm and the Iowa River was heavy with woods which he studied like a book. In late autumn and all winter during his youth he relentlessly pursued his trap line three miles long every morning, starting well before daylight. As he proudly entered the one-room country school each day (later a larger high school in town) his success that morning as a trapper of skunk, raccoon, and mink was easily detected by his classmates. It seemed that a hurried bath and change of clothing didn't do what was necessary to counteract the fragrance of the wild fur bearers, especially that of the skunk.
Carrying home sometimes through deep snow from one to three skunks, averaging about six pounds each, and occasionally a raccoon, opposum, and mink, along with a lantern, flashlight, rifle, and extra steel traps made him such a thin boy he hardly cast a shadow. But this exercise during his youth along with chores and other work on the farm prepared him for athletics in high school and college and for walking in the woods after graduation.
Ted came naturally to love the woods and everything wild. During his early years he kept a number of wild animals as pets. His favorites were three baby skunks which he found wandering aimlessly in the pasture one summer day. Their mother apparently had abandoned them either intentionally or by death. They became such pets they followed him around the premises like pups, but his dog Tip, a great hunter, took a dim view of these pesky animals following his master. Wild animals to him should be "taken" - not coddled. Also as they grew older they kept Tip at a distance with some accurate sharpshooting from one end. These trying circumstances frustrated his dog to the point where the half-grown animals had to be taken deep into a neighbor's woods and released.
But Ted was not free from wild things. He kept a pen of snakes well concealed in the family orchard - hidden because his sister Helen feared snakes like a pious person fears purgatory. Those also were released, after a "happening" on the country school yard. Wearing a new suit that day (new suits in those days were purchased only when one grew out of them, otherwise it was patch over patch), he asked a girl classmate to "reach down in my coat pocket to see how deep it is." Inside he had a small, green, harmless snake not more than six inches long. When the young lady touched her warm fingers to the cold snake she let out a scream, jerking her hand from the pocket - not from the top where it entered but sideways, tearing the pocket open. At the same instant the one button of three on his coat that was buttoned went into orbit and has never been heard from since. (Losing one button of three from a coat today is not too serious. In those days it was a tragedy.) If his parents hadn't been so understanding the ruined coat could have been sufficient grounds for another exciting "happening."
His marksmanship with rifle and shotgun was well known by those with whom he hunted. Even when hunting alone it is said he never returned empty-handed. But his popularity reached its peak as a freshman at Blairstown High when he came down with diptheria and closed the school for three weeks. No one else in school suffered from the malady, thus all enjoyed a fine vacation.
A punishing but highly satisfying experience during his career was carrying a seriously injured person from the mountain wilderness of Idaho in the early 1920s out to a road sixty-eight miles distant when he was a college student working during the summer for the Forest Service on a mapping assignment in the wilds of Idaho. Starting from near the Idaho-Montana divide the helpless man was carried over game trails and mountain ridges to the nearest road sixtyeight miles away to Kooskia, Idaho. From there an ambulance took him to a hospital.
Ted and two other foresters with him worked seven days overall to accomplish the task - six days of carrying and one day of rest. Exhaustion overcame them at the end of the fourth day when their hands no longer could grip the two poles of the improvised stretcher made from poplar poles and a piece of canvas cut from their tent. "When darkness came upon us that evening we lay the injured man down on the ground and collapsed on the spot, being too exhausted to prepare and cook the two spruce grouse we had killed with rocks late that day. Our food en route was a steady diet of spruce grouse, popularly known as "fool-hen," a bird that has no fear of man, which we ate almost raw (as soon as the meat was warm), being too hungry to wait until the meat had completely cooked over the campfire. You could say we were living off the land but not very high."
There is no record of the number of times the stretcher bearers fell while climbing and descending the steep terrain but it was many. While two men carried, the third cut trail some distance ahead, then hurriedly brought along the bell mare and the ten mules. Despite the rough treatment en route the injured man slowly recovered in the hospital and was most appreciative of their efforts. He happened to be the packer who brought in canned food and other supplies from Kooskia every three weeks with his pack train. Ted received a commendation from his employer the Forest Service which carried an automatic pay increase of $5.00 a month - bringing his monthly salary up to a staggering $75.00 a month.
Upon graduation in forestry from Iowa State University in 1926, he joined the U.S. Forest Service and literally "took to the hills" on a Service assignment to buy worn out farmland in Arkansas for the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests. Living among mountain farmers and moonshiners was an exciting and educational experience. He continued his career on the national forests until he transferred to the Land Economic Inventory in Wisconsin in 1929.
During 1930 the rapidly spreading white pine blister rust was threatening to destroy the reproduction of this valuable forest tree in Wisconsin. Accepting the challenge to help protect this tree species from the devastating disease, Ted again joined the federal government and cooperated closely with state agencies, counties, pulp and lumber companies and private individuals to control the disease and to develop new control techniques.
He actively participated in research projects with federal agencies and with scientists of the University of Wisconsin and the Department of Natural Resources in developing white pines resistant to blister rust and in determining micro-climatic conditions favoring control of the disease. Both studies have provided major contributions to blister rust control work. In 1957 Ted was transferred to the regional Forest Service office in Milwaukee where he specialized in state and private forestry programs in the nine-state region. For the next ten years, still in tyre Milwaukee office, he assisted state conservation departments in forestation, forest management, information and education, and watershed management.
Ted's hobby over the years has been looking for Indian artifacts on the ground surface - a hobby which he started on the home farm "as soon as I was able to walk." Through the years he has developed special techniques for finding old Indian hunting grounds and campsites where artifacts can be found. His most prized “find” is one of the oldest Indian campsites in the Midwest, located in Dane County, used by nomad Indians intermittently some 10,000 years ago.
Not too strangely, Ted enjoys, with his wife Marie, ballet, opera, plays, concerts and circuses. They attend several each season.
Ted's wealth of Wisconsin woods information is the result of some forty years of observations and interpretations of activities throughout the state. He has been active in several conservation organizations and has served as president and on various committees of the Wisconsin chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America, the Society of American Foresters, and the Charles E. Brown Chapter of the Wisconsin Archeological Society. He is also a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters and the American Forestry Association.
As satisfying as the past has been Ted looks only to the future. "It's what's ahead that counts," he says, surveying his happy moments with Marie and his work and hobbies.

From book #2 by Ted Kouba - Peter Kouba family comes to America, a Resume -
Peter Kouba (pronounced KO'-ba as in Czech), wife and three children, came to the promised land, the United States of America, by sailing vessel in 1869. Two girls were the oldest children, while Frank, the youngest, born November 25, 1869 became my sister Helen and my father. Two additional children, will and Emil were born in Iowa.
The sailing trip from Europe to America was difficult beyond comprehension, and almost proved fatal. Storms, frequent and overpowering, required masts to be lowered to keep boat from overturning and sinking, and then boat rode the wild waves and precious distance was lost. Able bodies (many were seasick) threw water from boat with pails to keep it afloat. Prayers were truly from the heart!
Neither grandfather Peter, nor this brother John who came earlier had farmed. Peter Kouba's had an Inn where meals, beer, and lodging were available. John apparently assisted a large landowner to protect his timber and wildlife as poaching and illegal timber cutting were common. Game in Austria-Hungary apparently was owned by the landowner, not the State.
Grandfather, farming for the first time, was totally helpless, as was brother John. It appears the Peter Kouba family came from Moravia, Austria Hungary, Province of Talice, village of Radlice. That portion of Europe is now Czechoslovakia.
The land grandfather purchased, apparetly sight-unseen, was forty acres on an unimproved road a few miles from Blairstown and Luzerne, Iowa, geographic location NWSW, Section 28, T.82 N. R. 11W. (See map album 1).
Father Frank grew up enjoying farming and fortunately so, as grandfather apparently could not adjust. Dad, over the years achieved extaordinary farming success. He ws a talented accordion player and called dances, and played at many Square dances apparently was the farmer's principal recreation.
In 1877, father married the most wonderful girl living, Emma Melsha, daughter of another Czech-American family several miles away.
Father realized to get farm produce more efficiently to Luzerne and Blairstown markets, one must live on a better road. He boutht land and a farmstead along a better road about a mile north from his parents farm. (See map album 1).
Grandfather Peter died apparently of cancer in 1909 at Luzerne where he and wife Frances were living. Grandmother died ther in 1916.
My father and mother were kind, proficient, hard-working farmers. Mother not only did the cooing and other work inside the home, but many times worked in fields alongside father. In a few years they acquired an adjoining ‘40' and so it went, concentrating on raising quality corn, beef cattle, and hogs. Then they hired a year-round farm hand who lived with them.
Father grew blue-ribbonquality corn and other small grain which he displayed at county and state fairs and won scores of top prizes. His winnings brought commercial seed company representatives to his door. Oftentimes they purchased at double market price his entire corn crop of several thousand bushels picked out the seed ears and left the remainder for him to use, without cost, for livestock feed. In cooking, mother also excelled, winning more prizes, (12 of them) than than father with grain, and occasionally jokingly reminded him that such a thing could happen.
Mother never refused a hungry person who came to the door for food, including homeless of unemployed men. The were given a nourishing meal which they ate sitting on the front porch. More than one offered to chop wood at the woodpile or perform other menial tasks for payment, but was refused. Ftahter gave grain to covered wagon gypsies who begged for grain for their horses. Women did the begging, carried grain in gunny sacks to the several wagons which seemed already filled – with kids!
Mother died of continuing heart attacks; deeply felt by her few relatives alive and her many friends, on October 19, 1935 at 60 years. Our dear father Frank died from malignant cancer at Helen's home where he was living on March 5, 1944 at age 75.
My precious sister ehelen was born in 1899 at the farm homestead where I came along 1902. From the beginning I was horribly sick for two years, requiring day and night care. Medical research years later recognized allergies and mine apparently was feathers. As baby, I as others in that era, slept in soft, warm feather beds and with down filled pillows. The sicker I became the more oove and feathers were piled around. After the doctor confided that one certain baby would have a short life, forks hired a photographer who came and while baby weakly standing in nightshirt and alone, took my picture. But the subject was out of fucus. Sister Helen about four years (old), who wanted to stand with here sick brother but was refused by the photographer, stood several steps back and came out in sharp focus. (See album 2).
My sister, always fortunately, was one of those never sick individuals. We came into a close friendship which has never weakened. She graduated in music from Coe College, became a strikingly successful high school music teacher, and strangely, began at Blairstown where she graduated, before she finished at Coe. Other schools where she taught included grand and high schools ate Belle Plaine, Madrid, and St Charles, Iowa. Many persons came to her for private lessons.

In 1925 Helen married Milo Kopecky in the prestigious ‘Little Brown Church in the Vale', continued teaching music as time permitted and later on worked full-time at Collins Radio which contributed notable to World War II effort. Milo's untimely death of a heart attack occurred a few years ago, and is buried in Cedar Memorial Cemetery at Cedar Rapids where Helen expects to be buried also.
Ted in 1926 graduated in forestry at Iowa State College, (now University) where he participated in athletics and bane. He became forester for the State of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory where in 1929 at a university dance he was introduced to a beautiful and distinctly talented girl taking graduate work in English Literature from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After her graduation in 1930, we were married in the Congregational Church at Madison, Wisconsin. During her school career she was awarded memberships in three honorary sorieties: Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Sigma Iota, and Pi Lambda Theta. And at this writing, after several strokes darling Marie is in the Madison Convalescent Center in which we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary August 3, 1990 to the tune of a fine orchestra, among many balloons, enjoying a large cake and which fed all other patients, nurses, and aides. Marie's parents Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Love are buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Salem, south Dakota. Marie and I will be buried at Forest hill where we have an inscribed small marble grave stone.

Father and mother, the Frank Kouba's, are buried on the hilltop in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, Iowa as are grandparents Peter Kouba'a and uncle Will Koubas.
Neither sister Helen and Milo have children nor do Marie and I, thus no continuing generations of the Peter and Frank Kouba lineage will follow. Thus ends a resume of the Peter Kouba family which migrated to the promised land, the magnificent United States of America in 1869.
Written by Ted Kouba July 1, 1991.

Theodore married Love, Marie Marguerite on 3 Aug 1930 in Congregational Church, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, USA. Marie (daughter of Love, Clinton, daughter of Love, Clinton and Quick, Effie Stanwood) was born on 21 Oct 1902 in Montrose, McCook, South Dakota, USA; died on 13 Mar 1992 in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, USA; was buried on 17 Mar 1992 in Forest Hills Cemetery, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Manager Canning Company

Notes:

In 1943 Carl W. Kouba was city councilman in Vinton, Benton County, Iowa. He lived in the McDaniel home in 1941
From Pioneer Recollections

Carl married Tielkimeier, Grace on 3 Oct 1931 in Cedarville, Stephenson, Illinois, USA. Grace was born on 7 Jan 1911 in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, USA; died on 16 Aug 1996 in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA; was buried in Aug 1996 in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried in the National Naval Cemetery, Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, CA per JF Thoma. She served in the USO during World War II.

(The following was transcribed from a letter sent to Mrs. Walter Sauerteig, Luzerne, Iowa 16 Dec. 1966 from Mr. & Mrs. A.T. Armstrong 77665 Michigan Drive Palm Desert, California)
Friday A.M.
Dear Leora,
We had word from Virginia that you had a _____ & do hope you checked with the Dr. and are feeling OK. I had to go back to the Hospital for a few days so have to wait for COBALT until I heal a little bit more. Feel fine. We have a nice apt. so are comfortable.
Lillian wrote such a nice letter & also had a nice card from George Kettler. So pleased to hear from them.
Jr. called from Los Angeles Tues Eve. Was on business for Emerson. Aunt Laura had gone to Marcellas, he said.
Armie is going to drive to El Paso to pick up the new station wagon. The Ft. Worth office will bring it that far. Will leave Mon. and return Thursday.
Will be anxious to hear how you are feeling. Do hope you have some one staying with you.
Love, Armie and Dorothy

Dorothy married Briley, Harold in UNKNOWN. Harold was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Armstrong, Alden Thomas on 29 Jan 1949 in Guam, USA. Alden was born on 2 Dec 1901 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 25 Jan 1982 in San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; was buried in Jan 1982 in National Naval Cemetery, Fort Roscrans, San Diego, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Pharmacist

Notes:

Wilson R. Kouba, a much loved husband, father and grandfather passed away at the age of 90 Thursday July 16, 2009 at St Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.
Memorial service will be 10:00am Saturday July 18, 2009 at the Goettsch Funeral Home in Anamosa. Rev. Laurie Riley will officiate at the service. Friends many call starting at 9:00am Saturday at the funeral home in Anamosa. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving is his wife Virginia; 3 children Keith (Becky) of Marion, Craig (Robin) of Fargo, North Dakota and Mary Ann (Larry) of Laytonville, CA; 7 grandchildren Jennifer, Jason, Chi, Sara, Cassandra, Mackenzie and Samantha; He was preceded in death by his parents.

Wilson was born March 31, 1919 to William and Amanda Kouba of Luzerne, Iowa. He attended Cornell College and graduated from College of Pharmacy at the University of Iowa. Wilson and Virginia Blocher were married April 25, 1942. Wilson served as a Pharmacist Mate in WWII. After working in Leon, Iowa and Humboldt, Iowa he bought the pharmacy in Anamosa in 1949 where he had a long and happy career at Kouba Pharmacy. While on Main Street Wilson was an active member of the Chamber of Commerce; Methodist Church; Anamosa Hospital; Fawn Creek Country Club and a Scout Leader to list some.

Wilson married Blocher, Virginia on 25 Apr 1942 in First United Methodist Church, De Witt, Clinton, Iowa, USA. Virginia (daughter of Blocher, Frank) was born on 23 Feb 1921 in Vinton, Benton, Iowa, USA; died on 1 Jan 2020 in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mathematican/Housewife
• Baptism: 28 Jul 1920, Blairstown United Methodist Church, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA

Notes:

She was a wonderful sister! She died of lung cancer 4 years following a mastectomy in 1971. She went to Chicago after graduation from Cornell College with a major in mathematics. She got a job there with the Continental Assurance Company. This was an insurance company established by British investors. She never smoked, but worked in smoke filled offices. She volunteered in the USO during World War II. Her Mother recorded that she was baptised by the Rev. Cuthbert S. Burnard at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Blairstown, Iowa on 20 Jun 1920. Even in her last days of life, she thought of others. She told us in which closet she had stored a birthday present for her nephew, Kevin David Kouba.

Marcella married McQuigg, JAMES Donald on 4 Nov 1945 in Cornell College Campus Chapel, Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, USA. JAMES (son of McQuigg, Frederick Walter and Gould, Doris Alice) was born on 2 Sep 1920 in Schaller, Sac, Iowa, USA; died on 12 Nov 1985 in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, USA; was buried on 15 Nov 1985 in Memorial Park Cemetery, Columbia, Boone, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Between 21 Mar and 31 Dec 1929, United Methodist Church, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Occupation: Electrical Engineer
• Religion: Baptist

Notes:

He served in the US Air Force from Aug 1951 to Aug 1955. His Service Number was 172 333 172. He was sent to Radar School at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi. Then he was sent to a radar bomb scoring detachment at Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas. There, in Kansas City, Kansas, he met his bride to be. Just when they got acquainted, he received orders to go to Korea for a year. When he got back he was sent to a bomb scoring unit in St. Louis for 3 months until he was discharged, and then they were married! A thought from a book on Virginia Unger's table: "Man is constantly adding to his knowledge of the world, but to do any good, it must be shared." My Mother recorded that he was baptized by the Rev. L. D. Stubbs in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Blairstown, Iowa in 1929.

Buried:
Body Donated to Science

Emil married Unger, Helen Grace Margaret on 14 Aug 1955 in First Baptist Church, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA. Helen (daughter of Unger, Albert and Watkins, Agnes) was born on 24 May 1927 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA; died on 6 May 2023 in St Andrews Assisted Living of Bridgeton, Bridgeton, St Louis, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Houdek, Joseph W on 12 Mar 1901 in Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Karolina married Cherney, James W on 6 Oct 1908 in Republic, Kansas, USA. James was born on 19 Jun 1885; died on 27 May 1958 in Republic, Kansas, USA; was buried in May 1958 in National Bohemian Cemetery, Cuba, Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer, Mechanic, Blacksmith

Frank married Plevka, Kristy on 24 Sep 1924. Kristy was born on 4 Dec 1903 in Wayne, Republic, Kansas, USA; died on 8 Nov 1990 in Belleville, Republic, Kansas, USA; was buried after 8 Nov 1990 in National Bohemian Cemetery, Cuba, Republic, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]