Source: Thompson Family Tree.ged by Lori Thompson

The 1900 census said they both immigrated in 1891. ED # 922 page 57

Ed 1286 in 1910 around page 27 or so

50th and Damen was an apple orchard around 1900's. The kids used to climb trees and throw apples at the teachers. (JP Triska)

Louis lived at 5353 Lincoln Street in 1920 with his wife Anna, his sons Louis and James and his daughter Mary and her husband James Triska and their two daughters Anna and Mary. He was a foreman, a butcher in the stockyards in Chicago. He and Anna came from Bohemia in 1882. They knew each other in Bohemia and married in Chicago. He was naturalized in 1888 and she in 1908. He learned to speak German in school when their town in Bohemia was occupied by the Germans. He spoke English in America, but Anna  didn't speak English.  

Anna would bring his lunch to him at the stockyard in a wagon and he would get her a liver for 10 cents to feed the family. He would put the liver in the wagon and she would take it home for dinner.

He died of a gastric ulcer with perforation, shock and exhaustion. He worked for Hammond and Co. as a butcher in the stockyard. Hometown listed as Moticin, which is Motyc'in, halfway between Prague and Rakovnik, CR.

In the plot at Bohemian National is Alois and wife Anna, children Louis and James and daughter Mary Triska and her husband J.P. There is a plot reserved for Mary and Jim's daughter Mary to be interred there as well. Caroline Triska and Helen are buried with Frank in Bohemain National according to Richard Triska.

Had a sister married to a man named Hinesh (one of them was looking for a spouse and placed a mail order bride ad)...The day Hinesh came to meet her, he came to the Koutecky house on Wolcott, but the front door was not on the front of the house and he couldn't figure out how to get in. He walked back and forth trying to find the door. They married. They had a farm in between the canals in Argo and the son died in the house fire. She was devestated... they helped the Triska's survive during the depression (James and Mary). They used to bring eggs and chickens and that for the family. Hinesh died and she lived with the Triska's for a while and she placed another ad and found a man in South Dakota where she married and never had more children. He was mean to her, she died in South Dakota.

Title: Thompson Family Tree.ged
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Text: Date of Import: 29 Oct 2008