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Karel Coufal

18 Jul 1839 – 28 Jun 1926

Birth18 Jul 1839
Death28 Jun 1926
CemeterySaint Anthony Cemetery
Bruno , Butler County , Nebraska , USA
Added byHultquist, Jack on 14 Feb 2010
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47625226

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PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY CZECH INTERESTED IN READING OLD CZECH LETTERS!!! CLICK ON THE PHOTOS TO THE RIGHT for more family history. After reading the caption CLICK on the photo again, and then slowly again to enlarge. Then click on F11 for a full screen view. After viewing click on F11 again. Married Marie Zak __________ There were other Coufal families in the Bruno, Nebraska area, so a Coufal from Bruno does not mean the person is a descendant of Karel and Marie. Karel had an older married brother Fred and family that also came to Bruno, Butler County, Nebraska at the same time as Karel and Marie. In the 1880 census Karel is listed as Charles and Marie as Mary. In the census notice that both Fred and Karel named a son Leopold. In 1880 there appears to have been two other Coufal families in Butler County but neither at or near Bruno. Thank you for reading about Karel. For about two generations the Czech people spoke Czech and not English. From 1900 - 1920 many of the adult Czechs spoke only Czech. The big change occurred from Czech to English between 1920 and 1940. The older generation that only spoke Czech died off leaving those adults that spoke Czech and English. My guess is Karel really could not speak much English since he died in 1926 and his wife Marie probably got to the place she could understand some English because of all the grandchildren and great grandchildren. CLICK on Spouse: Marie Zak Coufal to read family letters that are about 150 years old. (Written in Czech.)(:-)) __________ Be sure to read not three but all 12+ photos to the right that I have posted. __________ August 14, 2012 by email J. Christiansen sent the following data, which still needs some touch up research since so many ancestors had the same name. A biography of Karel Coufal is found in the link below (1963 Diamond Jubilee publication). Says he was born in Moravia 1839, died 1926, married Mary Zack, had 7 children: Charley b 1868 in Czechoslovakia (m Teresa Stava) Frances b 1870 in Moravia (married Robert Sabata) Leopold b 1873 (m Anna Hajek) Mary b 1875 (m Frank Krenk) Anton b 1875 ( m Carrie Mekolish) John b 1878 (m Mary Mazanek) Joseph (m Rosie Chmelka) - Karel and Mary lived with Joseph when they were old. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nebutler/Bruno2.htm 1940 Bruno, Butler, Nebraska Terezie Coufal 65 b abt 1875 Nebraska; widowed (Charley's wife) Residence in 1935: same house 1940 Dwight, Butler, Nebraska Frances Sobata [corrected to Sabata] 70 born abt 1870 in Czechoslavakia, widowed 1940 Bruno, Butler, Nebraska Leopold A Ceafal [transcription is corrected to Coufal] age 65b abt 1875 Nebraska Annie Coufal 64 b abt 1876 Nebraska Residence in 1935: Rural Butler County, Nebraska I don't see Mary Coufal Krenk in 1940; there's a Frank Krenk married to a Mary of a different age in 1940 in Seward, Nebraska. 1940 Stewart, York, Nebraska A. C. Coufal 63, b abt 1877 in Nebraska [ = Anton Coufal] Carrie Coufal, 59 Residence in 1935: Same house 1940 Skull Creek, Butler, Nebraska John F Coufal 62 b abt 1878 in Nebraska Mary Coufal 62 Ernest Coufal 22 Residence in 1935: Same house 1940 Census Bruno, Butler, Nebraska Joseph L Coufal 59 b abt 1881 in Nebraska Rose A Coufal 60 b abt 1880 in Nebraska Mary Coufal 92, mother, widowed b abt 1848 in Czechoslovakia. Has first papers for citizenship. Residence in 1935: Same house for all of them.

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