Peter Smoczyk

Other Events:

• Birth: 16 Aug 1921

Harry married Victoria Wynimko. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stanley married Mary C Ciolkosz in 1919. Mary (daughter of John Ciolkosz and Anna Chmiel) was born in 1889 in Poland; died on 14 Dec 1968 in Stanley, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 18 Feb 1899, Poland

William married Stella Rutka. Stella was born about 1890; died about 1980. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Stefania

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• Birth: 12 Jul 1866, Miniszew, parish of Kretkow, district of Jarocin, province of Poznan, Poland; alt birth date

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Researching the following:

Gaspar(Casper) SMOCZYK, son of Stanislaus and Catherine ?, of Kamien,
near Kretkow, Poznan
w. Sofia MARCINKOWSKA b. Miniszew, near Kretkow, Poznan
Son, John SMOCZYK b. 1866 at Miniszew; married Josephine
BLASCZYK b. 1870 at Raszewy, married at Brzostkow in 1890.
John arrived US 1891 and Josephine 1892. Lived Wellsville, NY
until 1900 then to WI.

Obituary from https://www.wiclarkcountyhistory.org/3data/79/79965.htm

Obit: Smoczyk, John (1886 - 1960)



Contact: Stan

Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org



Surnames: Smoczyk, Blastic, Hewins, Walenta, O’Hara, Tanner



----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 08/18/1960



Smoczyk, John (12 JUL 1886 - 12 AUG 1960)



John Smoczyk, age 94, a former resident of Stanley, died in Milwaukee at 7 o’clock Friday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen O’Hara.



Mr. Smoczyk was born July 12, 1866 in Poland, and was married to Josephine Blastic in Poland in 1891. The next year they came tot eh United States and settled in Wellsville, N.Y., where he did tannery work. In 1898 they moved to Stanley, Wis., where he continued in that employment until the tannery close. They then moved to a farm near the city of Stanley where they resided until his retirement in 1938, when they returned to Stanley. His wife preceded him in death in 1954, and for the past year he had lived with his daughters in Milwaukee.



Surviving are five sons, Stanley Edward of Stanley; John of Auburn, Wash.; Frank of Thorp; Steve of Englewood, Colo.; and Michael of Minneapolis; four daughters, Mrs. Albert (Mary) Hewins, Greendale, Wis.; Mrs. Peter (Sophie) Walenta and Mrs. Helen O’Hara, both of Milwaukee; and Mrs. Jennie Tanner, Deanver, Colo. He was preceded in death by two sons, Peter, who was killed in 1918 in World War I, and Tony in 1958.



Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s Church, Stanley, with Rev. George Mathieu officiating. Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery.



(Additional note provided by Nancy Fay)



My grandfather was his son John, married to Martha Radtke. They had four children, Virginia, Beulah(my mom), John (Jack), and Rita. They farmed in the Litchville, ND area until they moved to Washington State in 1940.

John married Josephine Błaszczyk on 27 Jan 1890 in Brzostkow, Poland. Josephine (daughter of Franciszek Błaszczyk and Rosalia Konieczna) was born on 20 Nov 1870 in Raszewy, Żerków, Kaliskie, Poland; died on 7 Aug 1954 in Stanley, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
or Brostokow, Poland