DESCENDANTS OF VACLAV LISKA I
Vaclav Liska I was born in Prague in 1823 (his father left the
Ukraine of Russia and went to Czechoslovakia). Vaclav died March 14,
1898, at the age of 75 years. His wife died in 1895.
Vaclav Liska II was born in 1860 and died in 1919. He married
Frantiska Spicak, who was born April 15, 1864, and died October 4,
1942. Their children were Anna (Krupicka), Mary (Snowdon), Joseph B.
Liska, Adolph Liska, and Helen Liska.
Adolph Liska, who was born April 27, 1892, married Johanna Tikalsky
on June 23, 1920. They had five sons: James, who died in infancy,
Robert, Lawrence, Daniel, and Adolph, Jr.
Adolph Sr., was born in a stone-gumbo house on an 80-acre tract of
land in the Sparta vicinity. He got his education in a one-room
country schoolhouse. Later the Liskas moved two miles west, farther
down the valley, and took over the “Frazier” homestead. This was
Adolph and Johanna’s home for 54 years. Their youngest son Adolph,
Jr., and his wife Jean (Halva) still live on this farm along with
their two sons, Rory and wife Julie (Boelter) and Patrick and wife
Kathi (Thompson).
The Frazier homestead was the hideout for Kid Wade, a member of Doc
Middleton’s gang who were notorious horse thieves. Kid Wade worked
on the Frazier place which became the Liska ranch. Once he got his
horses to the Frazier place, he would let them soak their tired
hooves in the cool, sandy Bingham Creek, and then hustle them up the
Niobrara River to their new homes. The Kid was hanged from a
whistling post in 1884 at Bassett, Nebraska.
Adolph was a tireless man, plowing the ground, cultivating corn,
stacking hay, and tending his livestock. His life’s pleasures
included saddling up old “Babe,” going out to check the cows, and
riding over the rolling hills that have been in the family for
years. They have been turned over to his sons to enjoy and pass on
to theirs.
Adolph suffered several strokes, and in April of 1974, he became a
resident of Alpine Village in Verdigre. Johanna followed him in
January of 1975. Adolph passed away August 16, 1977, and Johanna
died March 13, 1979.
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