Jozef Adamec came to America from Bohemia in 1852 with his wife Marie Maly and three children, Catherine, Joseph J. and Francis. After a brief time in the eastern United States, they moved to Wisconsin by 1856 and homesteaded a 40 acre farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin. They left for Minnesota in about 1867. Joseph was a stonecutter in Mankato. The family's youngest son died of typhus after enlisting in the Civil War efforts in 1861 at the age of 17. He is buried in Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, KY. After Joseph's death, his wife Marie went to live with her son Joseph J. and his wife Margaret on their farm in Freedom, Waseca, MN.
Jozef Adamec came to America from Bohemia in 1852 with his wife Marie Maly and three children, Catherine, Joseph J. and Francis. After a brief time in the eastern United States, they moved to Wisconsin by 1856 and homesteaded a 40 acre farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin. They left for Minnesota in about 1867. Joseph was a stonecutter in Mankato. The family's youngest son died of typhus after enlisting in the Civil War efforts in 1861 at the age of 17. He is buried in Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, KY. After Joseph's death, his wife Marie went to live with her son Joseph J. and his wife Margaret on their farm in Freedom, Waseca, MN.
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