A transcription of pages 195-469,
Family Histories from the Verdigre Centennial Book
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JOSEPH MLADY

Joseph Mlady, a native of Skrychov, Milevsko, Tabor, came to this area with his wife Katherine and daughter Barbara in July of 1870. (They had another daughter, Veronica, who came here later.) Katherine had been married to a man named Frank Maly. By this first marriage she had a son named Frank and a daughter, Mary. Mary almost certainly accompanied the Mlady’s to L’Eau Qui Court County; Frank may not have come until September.

Joseph Mlady was the first person to homestead in the immediate area of the present-day village of Verdigre. (John and Joseph Tikalsky, who had arrived in April, had taken up the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 5, the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 8 and the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 4 of Verdigre Township. This last 40 acres gave Joseph Mlady access to the creek, while the other 120 acres were in a narrow strip covering the part of the valley which could be farmed.

In September of 1870 John Beran and his wife Veronica, just married, arrived from Chicago, probably in the company of the Pavliks. Veronica was the other daughter of Joseph and Katherine Mlady, and Joseph Mlady had picked out a home site for the couple. It was not immediately adjacent to the Mlady homestead on the west because the West Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 5 contained the Verdigre hills and was unsuited to farming. Frank Maly took up a homestead to the southwest of the Mladys.

In February of 1871 Joseph Mlady’s younger daughter, Barbara, and Joseph Pavlik and Joseph Mlady’s step-daughter, Mary, and Albert Tichy walked twelve miles to Niobrara where both couples were married. Joseph Pavlik took a homestead adjacent to the Mlady homestead on the east.

Katherine Mlady died April 4, 1882, and was the second known person to be buried in the Bohemian Cemetery (later the parish cemetery) located on the homestead of her son-in-law John Beran. Joseph Mlady died June 26, 1886.

Before his death, Joseph Mlady gave each of his children and step-children 40 acres of his land. The land given to Mrs. Albert Tichy and to Veronica Beran and Frank Maly, constituting the long 120-acre strip, was acquired by the promoters of the village of Verdigre a year later, and the 40 acres in Section 4, which went to Joseph Pavlik and his wife, also became a part of the village. About 1880 Joseph Mlady had given a strip of the land as a right-of-way to a railroad company. This road was not built and the title to the land, as vested in the railroad, was quashed. Joseph Mlady also gave the land on which St. Wenceslaus stands to the parish and lived long enough to see a church erected on that property. He was, of course, a charter member of the parish, and in earlier years his house was probably used for baptisms.

Besides his own children, Joseph Mlady had other relatives in this area. Frank Mlady was his nephew. Mrs. Joseph Kalal, whose maiden name was Mlady, was a cousin - probably the daughter of a cousin.

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