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Karel “Charlie” Macalik
12 Mar 1872 – 2 Oct 1944
| Birth | 12 Mar 1872 |
| Death | 2 Oct 1944 |
| Cemetery | Saint Joseph Cemetery Ennis , Ellis County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | snipps on 22 Sep 2021 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16381677 |
Bio
Migrated to America from Podhrade, Moravia, on the ship Brandenburgin Sept of 1906. He was living in a small room attached to the barn at his sister's house & picking up odd jobs for money. He had helped Francis Hrbacek some & saw what a hard-working woman she was. She had always been hard of hearing & she was getting worse. He felt sorry for her & felt her loneliness & she was a beautiful woman. They fell in love & married on Sept 20th, 1910. He was 38 years old. They share cropped on different farms. One place they worked was a farm owned by a Mrs. White. It was full of Johnson grass & they cleaned it all up in two years & made a bumper crop. Mrs. White died & her son had taken the farm over & saw how clean it was. De decided to rent it to one of his friends. Charlie was very upset that they would have to move so he started harvesting Johnson grass seeds in the ditches & the day they moved he went & sowed the seed in the fields. A couple of years later they had driven by & saw the farm over run by Johnson grass. To him this was poetic justice. They share cropped for many years, having a large family of nine children & Mary made ten. Francis's hearing became progressively worse and it came to the time that she couldn't hear the children well. At this time Charlie had developed a heart problem & he was unable to work in the fields. So they traded places. He stayed at home & cared for the kids & she worked the fields & was thoroughly happy. She was a woman of the land. When Charlie was in Moravia, he had to serve two years in the Austro-Hungarian military. He was assigned to the cavalry. They were called Dragoons. His job was to keep the horses shod and groomed and all harness well kept. They were a proud cavalry & very spiffy. He developed a strong attachment to horses & as soon as they could afford good animals, they bought a matched pair of Morgans. They were proud of their accomplishments. They always had a fine wagon painted black with yellow wheels.The automobile age came & folks were buying cars. You could buy a buggy real cheap. Charlie bought a black leather one with fringe on top. It had two karosene lamps on each side & you could drive it at night & see where you were going. Everything was good for them, but they lived in fear of being deported. Since she was hard of hearing & he was having a hard time learning English, they were unable to get their citizenship. Every October they had to report to the Post Office to be finger printed & sign up as aliens. They then paid a poll tax but were unable to vote. This way the government could keep up with them.
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- Charlie Frank Macalik 1911–1989
- Frances Macalik Loykasek 1912–1985
- Joseph Rudolph Macalik 1913–1990
- Emilie J Macalik Mahdak 1916–1999
- Louise R Macalik Jurica 1918–1983
- Tonie Alice Macalik Faraizl 1920–2001
- Frank Eric Macalik 1923–1983
- Emil Macalik 1926–1997
- Julie Macalik Trojacek 1928–2000
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