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Klara Ohnoutka Rerucha

1 Aug 1824 – 14 Oct 1881

Birth1 Aug 1824
Death14 Oct 1881
CemeterySaints Cyril and Methodius Cemetery
Elk Township , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA
Added byMichael Vrchota on 16 Mar 2014
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Daughter of Frank Ohnoutka and Josepha Brabenec. Born August 1, 1824 Klara Ohnoutka, living in the village of Valec, Moravia, County Hrotovice, Kraj Fenojin, near Trebice. She married Jan (John) Rerucha born 22 May 1821. In early 1872 Jan and Klara decided to move to America with their children: John, Martin, Matthew, Joseph, Thomas, Mary and Caroline. Two months before their planned departure Jan became ill and passed away. This loss did not alter the familys plans. On May 29, 1872, Klara started the journey to America with her seven children. They traveled by railroad train two days and two nights to the port city of Bremen, Germany. There they waited four days for the boat, "S.S. Ohio," on which they sailed. After 19 days, they arrived at the American port city of Baltimore on June 24, 1872. The same day they left by train for the state of Nebraska, arriving in Omaha on June 27, 1872, staying overnight. The next day they went to Fremont and, with the help of former Czech citizens, they found and hired drivers to take them to the Czech settlement on Wahoo Creek in Saunders County where they settled a mile south of where Prague is now located. In this area, the Czech people had been settling for about four years and the area was about half settled. There were railroad and government lands available. From government lands, land was apportioned free at 80 acres to each settler and a fee of $18 was charged. From this widow's family, she and her sons, Matthew, John and Martin, qualified for homesteads and they were able to obtain homesteads next to each other. Sons, Joseph and Thomas, were too young to qualify. Joseph farmed with his mother, and when Thomas started his own home, a farm of 40 acres was bought for him. The sons soon added 40 acres to their farms by buying additional land from the railroads. One daughter, Marie, married John Kaspar and lived a mile from one of her brothers. Another daughter, Caroline, worked in Omaha and there married Joseph Langer, a tailor. Thus, a widow mother provided for her large family in the New World, but she did not enjoy her family very long. She was born in Moravia on Aug. 7, 1825, came to America in 1872, and died Oct. 14, 1881, only nine years after arriving in America. She is resting in SS. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Cemetery at Plasi Parish near Prague, among the first parishioners laid to rest in that cemetery. This grave has a modern tombstone which replaced the original wooden cross that deteriorated on her grave. This may be the reason for the incorrect date on the tombstone. Moravian Archive at Bruno has her birth recorded as 1 August 1824.

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