This is a fully sourced timeline for Jan Kristufek, son of Matej Krystufek and Lidmilla Krejci of Talin, South Bohemia, from the time of the birth of his wife in 1823 to the time of his death in 1913. I have included hyperlinks to sources where possible. If you are on Ancestry.com, you can see most of this information as well as other relevant material in the Jan Kristufek entry in my family tree. There is also a Jan Kristufek entry on FamilySearch.org.
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| Section M, Block 3, Lot 17. Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago |
1823 Jun 7th. Anna Jelinek born in Kloub, Bohemia to unwed mother Barbara Jelinek of Kloub 10. (Source: Czech DigitalArchives 1849 Marriage Records)
1824 March 4th. John Kristufek is
born in Talin, Bohemia to Matej Krystufek and Lidmilla Krejci of Talin 18, Talin,
Bohemia. (Source: Czech Digital Archives Birth Record, Marriage Record)
1848 November 17. Son John Jr. is born in Vodnany, Bohemia as
Johann Jelinek. (Source: Czech Digital Archives 1848 Birth Record)
1849 February 13. John Kristufek and Anna are
married in Vodnany, Bohemia, where both are listed as residing at Vodnany 127.
(Source: Czech Digital Archive Marriage Record)
1851 Jul 7.
Daughter Mary Amelia is born in Vodnany, Bohemia (Source: Czech DigitalArchives)
1853 Dec 10. Son Franc Kristufek is born in Vodnany, Bohemia (Source: Czech Digital Archives)
1853 Dec 10. Son Franc Kristufek is born in Vodnany, Bohemia (Source: Czech Digital Archives)
1854 September. John, Anna, Mary Amelia and
John Jr. come to America and settled in Chicago. (Source: Jan Habenicht, The
History of Czechs In America, 1910)
1855 Dec 31.
Daughter Anna is born in Chicago. (Source: Anna Donat Death Certificate)
1857 November 24.
Daughter Catherine “Katie” is born in Chicago. (Source: Death Certificate)
1861 June 21.
Daughter Antonia “Jennie” is born in Chicago (Source: Death Certificate
November 5th. John Sr. becomes US citizen (Source: 1890 and 1892 Voter Registration)
November 5th. John Sr. becomes US citizen (Source: 1890 and 1892 Voter Registration)
1863 March 19.
Son Joseph is born in Chicago. (Source: 1929 New York Passenger Record)
1865 John Kristufek listed as a grocer at
corner of DeKoven and Desplaines and John Kristufek (probably Jr.) listed as
laborer at 173 DeKoven (Source: 1865 City Directory)
1867 Mary Amelia Kristufek marries Frank Krch.
Frank Krch listed at 171 DeKoven address in 1867 Chicago City Directory. Frank and Mary
Krch move to Minnesota.
1868 John Kristufek builds new home at 487 S.
Canal Street, Chicago. (Source: Jan Habenicht The History of Czechs In
America, 1910)
1868 November 16. John Jr. marries Mary Bedlan.
Son Frank is born in 1869. (Source: FamilySearch.org member submission, 1870
Census)
1870 June 29th. John Christopher, a
saloon keeper, is living in the 9th Ward of Chicago with wife Annie,
and children: Annie, Katie, “Jane” and Joseph. Also at the address: son John
with wife Mary and son Frank. (Source: 1870 Census)
Son John Kristufek listed as
cigar maker working for Daniels & Baum and living at 171 DeKoven.
1871 Great Chicago Fire begins at 137 DeKoven,
one block down from 171. Fire spreads North.
1875 Son John is listed as a cigar maker and
son Joseph listed as working in a laundry, both at 487 S. Canal Street.
Daughter Katie (under name Catherine Christopher) is also listed at that address
as a milliner. (Source: 1875 City Directory)
April 6th. Daughter AnnaKristufek marries Vaclav Donat. (Source: Cook County Marriage Index)
October 26th. Daughter Kate Kristufek marries Frank Gross. (Source: Cook Co. Marriage Index)
1877 October 31. Daughter Jennie (listed as
Antonia J. Kristufek) marries Frank Lepsa in Minnesota. His parents, Jacob and
Mary, own a grocery store there.
1880 June 4th. John Sr., house
owner, is living at 487 S. Canal Street with wife Ann and son Joseph. Also at
that address: John Jr., a cigar maker, with wife Mary and children: Edward, John, Charles, Frank, George and Annie. Frank Gross, a butcher, with wife Kate,
daughter Sylvia and son John (Source: 1880 Census)
June 12th. Daughter Anna and husband Vaclav (listed as James) are living with daughter Maladah “Millie” at 202 Centre Avenue. (Source: 1880 Census)
Daughter Jennie is living with husband Frank Lepsa and son Frank Jr. in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Source: 1880 Census)
1881 July 8th. Wife Anna JelinekKristufek, overcome by the heat, dies of Cholera at 487 S. Canal Street. (Source:
Anna Kristufek death record)
1882 Daughter Jennie’s husband Frank Lepsa is
listed as a Secretary for the Pioneer Lodge No. 25 for the CSPS in Wahoo,
Nebraska. (Source: Omaha Bee Newspaper)
1885 June 9th. Daughter Kate is
living with husband Frank Gross, children Sylvia and John, along with John
Sr.’s son Joseph in Wahoo City, Nebraska. Also living there are Daughter Jennie and husband Frank J. Lepsa. Frank Gross is working as a brewer, Lepsa as a
bottler and Lepsa’s brother Thomas a boilermaker. Joseph is listed as a cigar
maker but he has also spent two of the months of the year unemployed.
July 4th. Joseph marries Mary Mazac in Chicago. (Source: 1900 Census, exact date from connected family tree on Ancestry.com)
1886 Joseph and Mary live in New York City for
four years and have first two children there, Joseph Jr. (January 14, 1887) and
Sylvia (August 10, 1888).
1890 Joseph listed as cigarmaker at 951
Washington Ave. in New York City. (Source: 1890 NYC Directory)
Son Joseph moves back to Chicago later in 1890, has son Robert there on August 18, 1891.
1890 John Sr. and sons John Jr. and Joseph, as
well as John Jr.’s son Frank are listed as living at 487 S. Canal Street. (Source:
1890 Voter Registration)
1892 John Sr. and sons John Jr. and Joseph, as
well as John Jr.’s sons George and Frank are listed as living at 487 S. Canal
Street. (Source: 1892 Voter Registration)
1894 9 Nov. Omaha Daily Bee reports on
election results. Republican Frank Lepsa loses to Democrat and People’s
Independent candidate Mr. Vanhousen for the 26th District for the state house.
1895 March 23. Mary Bedlan Kristufek awakes to
the sound of a barking dog alerting her to two intruders trying to break into the
saloon below the house at 487 Canal Street. (Source: Daily Inter Ocean
Newspaper under Kristufeck)
1896 June 4th. John Jr.’s wife Mary
Bedlan dies. (Source: Cook County Death Index)
1897 January 27th. Jennie’s husband
Frank Lepsa commits suicide in Wahoo, Nebraska after selling his interest in a
local bank. (Source: Nebraska newspaper articles)
In his will, Frank Lepsa leaves
$9000 to various charities in Bohemia including: $4000 for poor school children
in Trebon near Branna in South Bohemia and $1000 to a library there as well.
Jennie Kristufek Lepsa challenges the will in court. (Source: Jan Habenicht,
The History of Czechs In America, 1910)
3 Sept. Jennie Kristufek Lepsa of Wahoo, Nebraska marries Frank Boehm, a cigar store owner in Cheyenne, Wyoming who grew up across the street from Jennie at 162 DeKoven where his family still resides in 1897. (Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News)
1899 Janurary 22nd. Jennie
Kristufek Lepsa, now Antonia Boehm, settles for $3500 and allows balance of
Frank Lepsa’s estate to go to various Bohemian charities. (Source: Jan
Habenicht, The History of Czechs In America, 1910)
April 20th. Antonia “Jennie” Kristufek gets fast divorce from Frank Boehm after claiming he choked her. In addition to her recent settlement with her first husband’s estate, she also receives $1800 in alimony from Frank Boehm (Source: Salt Lake Herald)
April 30th. Frank Boehm puts his Cheyenne cigar store up for sale and returns to Chicago. (Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News classified ad)
Jennie Kristufek relocates to Denver as Antoinette Boehm and buys a boarding house. (Source: 1900 Census)
1900 June 2nd. John Sr., a
landlord, is living with son John Jr., a saloon keeper, and John Jr.’s children
George (a cigar maker), Ida, Joseph and Mamie at 487 S. Canal Street. Also
living at this address: Granddaughter Annie with husband George Beresheim with
children Annie, Ruth and George Jr. as well as grandson Edward and wife Mary
with children Edward and Arthur.
June 2nd. Son Joseph, a feed dealer, is living with wife Mary and children Joseph Jr., Sylvia, Robert, Ella and Henry at 1915 W. 47th Street.
June 7th. Daughter Katie is living with husband Frank Gross and children Sylvia and Georgia in Wahoo City, Nebraska.
June 9th. Daughter Anna and husband Vaclav Donat as well as children Millie, Edward, Joseph, Jerry, Ella, Anna and Sylvia are listed at 576 W. 19th Street. (Source: 1900 Census)
US Census lists Antonia Boehm as a
rooming house keeper at 1624 Welton (The Lester) with lodger Phyllis Boehm
(most likely daughter of Thomas Lepsa, Frank’s brother, and his wife Barbara
Kalina) in Denver, Colorado. (Source: 1900 Census)
July. Mrs. Mary Boehm of 162
DeKoven posts notice that her son Frank Boehm, formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming is
missing. (Source: Bureau of Information section of the Cigar Maker’s official
journal)
4 Dec. Denver Rocky Mountain News
reports death of Frank Boehm of Cheyenne with headline “Dies Insane.”
1903 20 Aug. Jennie Kristufek now known as
“Antoinette Boehm” marries Alfred R. Davies in Colorado Springs, CO.
1906 November 28th. Sylvia
Kristufek, daughter of Joseph Kristufek marries her first cousin Frank Kirk,
son of Mary Amelia Kristufek. (Source: Cook County Marriage Index)
1910 April 19th. John Sr. is living
with granddaughter Annie and her husband George Beresheim (and their children
Annie, George and Charles) at 1134 S. Canal Street. Also living at the address
are John Jr. and John Jr.’s son George.
April 19th. Daughter Anna
and husband Vaclav, a soda water manufacturer, are living with children Edward
(chemist), Jerry (bottler), Ella (shoe saleslady), Anna (bookkeeper) and Sylvia
(apprentice dressmaker) at 1529 W. 19th Street.
April 28th. Son Joseph,
a saloon proprietor, and wife Mary are living with children Joseph Jr. (a
railsman clerk), Robert (bookkeeper), Henry, Ella, Adeline, and George at 1300
W. 50th Street. (Source: 1910 Census)
April 21st. Daughter
Katie and husband Frank Gross are living in Wahoo City, Nebraska with children John
and Georgia.
US Census finds Alfred R. Davies,
clerk, with his wife Antoinette, born in Illinois, parents from Bohemia, who
had one child who is no longer living, and an adopted 19 year old niece Phyllis
Boehm living at 2510 Welton in Denver.
1913 April 10th. John Jr., a
retired saloon keeper, dies at 1429 S. 44th Street of cirrhosis of
the liver (his address for the last six months of his life) and is buried at
Bohemian National Cemetery. Section M, Block 3, Lot 17. (Source: Death Certificate, Cook County Death
Index)
April 20th. John Sr.
dies at 1134 S. Canal Street, the home of his granddaughter Annie Beresheim and
is cremated at Montrose Crematory and buried, with his wife Anna Jelinek Kristufek at Bohemian National Cemetery. (Source: Death Certificate, Cook County
Death Index)
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