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Eleanor Cidlik Chapek
15 Feb 1842 – 20 Nov 1932
| Birth | 15 Feb 1842 |
| Death | 20 Nov 1932 |
| Cemetery | Saint John Nepomucene Cemetery Weston , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Suzanne Chapek on 16 Jun 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69461971 |
Gravesite details
"Chapek" is the americanized spelling, but you'll also see it as "Capek" or "Capka".
Bio
She married Tomas Kotek about 1865. She then married Frank Chapek in 1868. ---------------- "FRANK J. AND MARY CHAPEK Frank A. Chapek married Eleanora Cidlik in Moravia, May 5, 1868, where his first business experience was that of a merchant. He also conducted a farm in connection with the grocery store. In 1876, he disposed of the store and devoted his entire time to farming and raising cattle. They came to this country July 4, 1881. They bought an eighty-acre farm three miles west of Weston for six dollars an acre. They lived in a dugout for seven years before they built a two-room house. On the east slope of the dugout, the floor was earthen. The children were healthy and contented. They slept upstairs. The entrance on the east was on the main floor. The entrance on the west was on the second level, the upstairs, and a ladder was needed to enter there. They raised four sons and 5 daughters. The farm they bought in 1881 is still in the family name. Their son, Frank J. Chapek, and Mary Svoboda were married Nov. 24, 1903 by Fr. Matthew Bor at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Wahoo. They had five sons and one daughter: Bernard, Joseph and Ludvik, twins, Frank, Agnes Ludvik, and Adolph. Soon after their marriage, Frank and Mary moved to Enid, Oklahoma where be worked for his brother, Anton Chapek, in a grocery store. In the spring of 1904, they moved to Hugoton, Kansas in a covered wagon. They were on the road nine days. Frank managed a large ranch. On Febr. 9, 1907, they moved back to Nebraska where Frank J. purchased his father's farm. They lived there until 1945 when they retired to Weston. On Mar. 6, 1913, while the older boys were in school, the house burned to the ground with one-and-a-half-year-old Frank in it. Submitted by Ludvik Chapek." - from 1983 Saunders Co NE History
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Family
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Siblings
- Anna Cidlik Wais 1844–1902
- Maria Cidlik Spicka 1846–1935 FaG
- Antonia Cidlik Raiter 1853–1931 FaG
- Jan "John" Cidlik Sr 1855–1909 FaG
Children
- Eleonora Kotek Tomes 1866–1939
- Anton B. Chapek 1869–1939
- Sr Mary Dominic "Frances" Chapek 1870–1962
- Theresia Antonia Chapek Benes 1873–1956
- Catherine B. Chapek Hakel 1876–1964
- Ludvik D. Chapek 1878–1906
- Frank Joseph Chapek 1879–1963
- John Alois Chapek 1881–1968
- Mary A. Chapek Cherovsky 1883–1967
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