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From: ETM <>
Subject: [SLEPICA] HRUSKA to Chicago from Bohemia 1860s
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:00:21 -0500

HRUSKA is not an unusual Czech name, it translates
to PEAR. It appears in the same form in some
other European countries. My grandmother's family
used both styles of the name almost immediately
upon arrival in America. My grandmother married
Michael (Matej) SLEPICKA in Chicago in 1879 and
after losing two infant children in Chicago they
moved to Minneapolis, MN, where they lived, raised
a family, are buried.

HRUSKA is a Czech/Bohemian name, the feminine FORM
is HRUSKOVA, I have seen at least one important
American record that refers to my grandmother as
Annie HRUSKY (perhaps a Latinizing form of a
feminine form of the HRUSKA surname).

Beyond her brother Martin Pear who appears to have
died with no issue though there might have been a
stepson, I have never been able to locate her
siblings or their descendants. I am searching for
connections anywhere to

Descendants of Martin and Mary Hruska

1 Martin Hruska 1818 -
.. +Mary 1830 -
........ 2 Joseph Hruska 1851 -
........ 2 James Pear 1854 -
............ +Catherine 1857 -
........ 2 Mary Hruska 1856 -
............ +Joseph Sack 1857 -
........ 2 Martin Hruska 1857 -
........ 2 Annie M. Hruska 1860 - 1922
............ +Michael Slepicka 1858 - 1935
........ 2 John Hruska 1864 -
........ 2 Barbara Hruska 1866 -
............ +Jan Hosek


My ten year old Grandma in school is itemized in
the 1870 Census, prior to the Great Chicago Fire,
qualifying her to be a Chicago Pioneer.

Note that Ancestry comments that most Hruska
families (27) living in the US in 1880 lived in
IA. Mine did not. So don't trust everything you
read.

Other names in this alphabet series, JAN HOSEK,
husband of my grandmother's sister, BARBARA
HRUSKA. Record found in the Chicago IL marriage
database.

Elaine

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