FAMILY STORIES

bian Squires. Emily belongs to the Parish Council of Catholic Women and the Catholic Daughters.

   We were picked statewide as Catholic Family of the Year in 1973 by the Knights of Columbus and also picked farm family in 1974. Submitted by Emily Sladky

   Mike (as he was called) was born in Czechoslovakia in 1888, and came over to America when he was a year old with his parents and twin sister, Elizabeth (Zima). The family settled on a farm near Plasi. Mike moved to the Wahoo area and, in time, bought the old Stocking farm southeast of Wahoo.

Math Sladky Family

   I was born and raised on a farm north of Prague, and attended country school there. When I was 12 years old, we moved to a farm south of Wahoo. During the summer, I worked as a hired girl for many friends and neighbors doing housework, cooking, and caring for their children.

   Mike and I met as neighbors and were married in 1929. We have four sons and a daughter -- Math, Joe, Bernie, Richard and Mary Ann (Osmera).

   Mike did custom threshing with a steam engine, and also corn shelling and picking for many years besides farming. He was a WWI veteran, and a member of the KD and KC at St. Wenceslaus, Wahoo.

   Our social life was playing cards with neighbors and friends in the evening or visiting relatives on Sunday afternoons.

   I was quite active in the St. Ludmilla's Guild at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Wahoo for many years, holding the office of President and Secretary.

   With the Wahoo and Sand Creeks going through our land, we were threatened with flood many times. Our worst was in June, 1963 when we had 6" of water on the first floor of our house. We moved to Wahoo in July of 1963. The farm house and buildings were sold and torn down.

   Mike died in July, 1966 at the age of 77. I live in a small house south of the Catholic Church in Wahoo. Submitted by Sophie (Hobza) Sladky

   Adolph lived on a farm north of Prague and I lived south of Prague. We met at a dance at Scott's Lake near Morse Bluff, Nebraska. We were married January 31, 1950 at St. John's Catholic Church at Prague. We are blessed with five children. David was born November 5, 1950; Cathie, April 30, 1953; Elizabeth, Oct. 23, 1954; and Jeffry and Jeanine, Aug. 19, 1958.

   Jeff and Cheryl were married Sept. 21, 1981. He works at Valmont at Valley, Nebraska, and they live north of Prague. David and Diane were married May 23, 1982. David works at Valmont at Valley and lives near Prague. Cathie is a school co-ordinator for Montessori Schools in Omaha. Elizabeth is a flight attendant for Pioneer Airlines in Cortez, Colorado. Jeanine is employed by Angie's Restaurant in Omaha.

Adolph Sloup Family, May 23, 1982 -- Cathy, Jeanine, Elizabeth, Dave, his wife Diane (Janecek), Marcie, Adolph, and Jeffry and his wife Cheryl (Vlcan).

   Adolph was born to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Sloup (Adela Prochaska). He has 2 brothers; James W., who married Marie Koranda and lives in Prague; Rev. Ernest Sloup of Trenton, Nebraska; and one sister, Mrs. Roland Koranda (Adeline) of Prague, Nebraska.

   I am the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kaspar (Clara Kriz) of Prague. My sisters are: Mrs. Joe C. Urban (Zdenka), Prague; Mrs. Allan Kaspar (Elaine), Millard; Mrs. Dave Bratcher (Nadine), Lincoln; Mrs. Al Madigan (June), St. Paul, Minnesota; and Clara Jean Kaspar who died in 1951. I have one brother, Mr. Arnold Kaspar of Prague.

   We are members of St. John's Catholic Church. The years have been happy ones and full of happy memories, but they have gone by too fast. By Mrs. Adolph Sloup (Marcie)

   My grandfather was Wencl Sloup, born in Radiste, Czechoslovakia in 1852. He was probably the oldest of 4 sons and 2 daughters of Andrew and Mary (Hrbacek) Sloup. His father was a clockmaker by trade, learning his trade in Austria. He came to the United States in 1871 and worked for a time in New York, and later, in Allentown, Pa. for a large livestock farmer.

Cyril and Rose Sloup

   When he saved enough money, he came to Saunders County. Then, in 1876, he made a down payment on 80 acres in Section 10, Chester Precinct, which he bought from a Civil War Veteran by the name of Ed Faulkes for $900.

   In 1878, he married Josephine Dolezal. She was the daughter of Peter and Frances Dolezal. She came from Domazlic, Czechoslovakia, where she was born in 1860, and came to the States with her parents in 1871 and settled in Saunders County. Their children numbered 8, of which my father, Edward, was born Aug. 4, 1883, and was the third oldest. He attended School Dist. 51 through the third grade, and then helped with the farming as many of the young men did in those days.

   My father was married to Anna Vidlak in Abie in 1911. She was the daughter of Frank and Katherine Vidlak, who lived, for a time, near Hemingford, Nebr., before settling on a farm northwest of Abie, where my mother was born in 1893. My great-grandfather, Jan Vidlak, was also said to have come from Domazlic.

   My mother was only 17 when she married my father. There were 5 of us children, of which 2, Emil and Marie, are now deceased. Edward Jr. and Victor are my brothers. I was the youngest, born in 1922. We attended Sacred Heart Church, Cedar Hill, and, occasionally, St. John's in Prague where my father was an officer with the Catholic Workman for many years.

   We attended the Parochial School in Prague and, for most of the winter, we boarded at the school where the nuns took care of us because of bad roads and cars being hard to start. There was quite a number of us cousins and neighbor kids staying, and we must have been quite a responsibility for the nuns to feed and care for all of us. Many times we made the 5-mile trip from our farm northwest of Prague by buggy.

   I went to, and graduated from, Prague High School, where I met my wife, Rose Vasa, who was also a new neighbor of ours for a short time. Her mother, Anna Bartek, was no stranger to my parents as she helped my mother when my older brothers were small, before she was married to Frank Vasa, also in St. John's in Prague in 1919. The Vasas then moved to the Sand Hills in Arthur County, where my wife was born, and later moved back to the community.

   My wife, Rose, and I were married at St. John's in Weston, Nebr. in April of 1945. Our children numbered 5. Two daughters, Mrs. Paul O'Leary (Margaret) and Mrs. Terry Polak (Janet), both R.N.'s, now reside in Lincoln, Nebr. Richard, with his family, lives near Phoenix, Arizona. Leslie (Mike) lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his family. Mark, who is single, lives at home and is in a farming partnership with us. Our grandchildren number eight. Submitted by Cyril M. Sloup

   James F. and Adela Prochaska Sloup of Prague have 4 children. James W. married Marie Koranda. Adolph married Marcella Kaspar. Adelyne married Roland Koranda. Father Ernest Sloup was ordained a priest in 1953. Submitted by Mrs. Adela Sloup

Back Row: James and Marie Sloup, Marcella and Adolph Sloup, Adelyne and Roland Koranda; Front Row: James F. Sloup, Fr. Ernest, and Adela Sloup.

   James and Marie Koranda Sloup were born in Saunders County. James is the oldest son of James F. Sloup and Adela Prochaska Sloup. Marie is the

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