FAMILY OF ALBERT JEDLICKA
Albert Jedlicka was born in Bohemia where he married Rosa Paskoc.
They had five children: Anton, Albert, Anna, Matt, and Vaclav.
Anton came to the United States, married, and had five children:
Mrs. Novacek, Mrs. Ouska, Miss Barbara, a son who was a general in
the army, and another son.
Albert remained in the old country.
Matt’s wife was Marie who was born in 1853. She died in 1894 and is
buried in Chicago, Illinois. Their children were Matt, Jr., Ed,
James, Mrs. Charles (Emma) Vlcek, and Mrs. Frank (Mamie) Dolezal.
Matt, Jr., had a daughter Joyce who married a Japanese doctor. Ed’s
daughter Vera was highly educated. James, unmarried, was an actor.
Emma Vlcek was killed in a car accident. Mrs. Dolezal had two
children, Robert Dolezal and Marie (Dolezal) Powell.
When Matt, Anton, and Vaclav Jedlicka were coming to America they
were shipwrecked but saved - an experience never to be forgotten!
Anton and Matt remained in Chicago, Illinois, and Vaclav married
Marie Kalal the day of the Chicago fire in 1871. Soon after, they
came to Knox County.
Anna Jedlicka married Frank Souhrada, Sr., who died August 13, 1884.
Anna then married Frank Kalal. The couple had a daughter. Anna died
November 26, 1889. Frank and Anna Souhrada had five children: Mary
Ann, Mrs. Gilbert Johnson, (1869-1936); Anna, Mrs. Joseph Sucha,
later Mrs. Raymond Schreier, (1870-1941); Frank (1872-1956) married
Christina Pavlik; Rose, Mrs. John A. Schreier, (1875-1947), and
Bozena (1878-1895).
-Written by Mrs. V. W. Marshall and Mrs. Edward S. Pavlik
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