My Paternal 1st. Great Grandmother, Daughter of Tomas "Tom" Dudik and Eva Chlevestanova of 44 Mala Bystrici, Vsetin, Moravia, Czechia.
Wife of Jan "John" Mazac, they had 20 children.
Emigrated on 19 January 1892 from Moravia to Ellis Island, New York, New York, then by ship to Galveston, Galveston County, Texas. Settled in Williamson County, Texas with her husband, John Mazac, and near many other Moravian immigrants.

[LEO BACA'S BOOK ON CZECH IMMIGRATION:
MARIE MAZAC, AGE 29, ARRIVED ON JAN. 19, 1892 IN NEW YORK ON THE SHIP EIDER FROM MORAVIA, WITH ROZALIE AGE 8, ROBERT AGE 2, AND JOSEF AGE 1/2 [6 MONTHS] BOUND FOR TEXAS. IMMIGRATION PAPERS SHOW MAZAC, MARIE, DCERA TOMASE DUDIKA, DOMKARE V MALE BYSTRICI A JEHO MANZELKY EVY CHLEVESTANOVE.]

Settled in Granger, and Corn Hill, Williamson County, Texas areas.
Children: (20)
Rosalie, Albert, Anton, Andrew, Joe #1, Steve, Johnnie, Robert Albert, Frank, Johnny #2, Marie, Elizabeth Annie (Bessie), Emma, Effie, Eva, John Joseph, Alberta "Bertha", Olga, Frank Joseph, and Vlasta Mary Mazac.
Loving wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother.
Hardworking Czech-Moravian, farmer's wife.
Member of the St.Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Granger, Williamson County, Texas. Marie and Jan Mazac were founding members of the St. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church, in Granger, Williamson County, Texas.
I wish that I could have known her. I cannot fathom how horrible it would be to have five of your sons die in Moravia. They died before they left Moravia. My poor great grandmother survived six weeks aboard a ship from Moravia. With the crowded, hot, and unsanitary conditions aboard a ship with your four little children, and they were very poor, and had very little. So, I don't know how they came up with the money for passage to America. I would have been terrified to leave my home. They left to come to America for a "new life" where they had freedom from the cold winters, freedom of religion, and to fulfill the American dream of owning their own property. Land was everything to them. They were good, hard working Catholics, and worked for everything that they had. They grew their own food in their garden, and were farmers.

Name: Marie Mazac
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 Mar 1939
Event Place: , Williamson, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 02 Jun 1867
Birthplace: , Czechoslovakia
Father's Name: Tom Dudik
Mother's Name:
Certificate Number: 16232
GS Film number: 2118014
Digital Folder Number: 005144942
Image Number: 02525
She died of a stroke.
Note: Burial Information taken from Williamson County Cemetery Book, Vol.1.