{"id":38796990,"date":"2004-10-27T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/10\/martin-slovacek.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T04:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T04:10:46","slug":"200410martin-slovacek-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/10\/27\/200410martin-slovacek-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Slovacek (1882\/Polesovice, Moravia &#8211; 1953\/Berwyn, IL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\" width=\"110\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/images\/family_tree\/slovacek_martin.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Martin Slovacek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Name:  <b>Martin Leopold SLOVACEK Sr.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Birth:  Feb 1882  Polesovice, Moravia<br \/>Death:  Dec 1953  Berwyn, IL<br \/>Burial:  7 Dec 1953  Bohemian National Cemetary, Chicago, IL <span class=\"sources\">1<\/span><br \/>Occupation:  Carpenter<br \/>Father:  John SLOVACEK<br \/>Mother:  Marie MELICHARKOVY<\/p>\n<p \/><b>Spouse<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>1:  Hedvika IVACHULA<br \/>Birth:  15 Oct 1881  Polesovice, Moravia<br \/>Death:  Jul 1968  LaGrange, IL <span class=\"sources\">1<\/span><br \/>Burial:  11 Jul 1968  Bohemian National Cemetary, Chicago, IL <span class=\"sources\">1<\/span><br \/>Father:  Unknown IVACHULA<br \/>Marriage:  1906  Polesovice, Moravia<br \/>Children:  Lydia (1908-1979)<br \/>  Alois (1909-1994)<br \/>  Jerry Martin (1910-1986)<br \/>  Hattie (1913-1929)<br \/>  Martin Leopold (1915-1976)<\/p>\n<p \/>Notes for Martin Leopold SLOVACEK Sr.<br \/>He built a home for his family at 1521 S. Kenilworth Ave. in Berwyn and lived there until he retired.  He was a carpenter and became a general contractor who built homes in the Chicago area.  After he retired in 1946 or 1947, he and Hedvika moved to a small home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  When he became ill with heart disease in 1953, they moved back to Berwyn.  He died in early December 1953. <span class=\"sources\">2<\/span><\/p>\n<p \/><b>Sources<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"sources\">1. &#8220;Bohemian National Cemetery Burial Record,&#8221; Photocopy.<br \/>2. &#8220;Richard Slovacek Recollections,&#8221; 3\/17\/2003.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Care to dig deeper?  Explore the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldconnect.rootsweb.com\/cgi-bin\/igm.cgi?db=%3A2741662\">Casey\/Geltmaker family tree<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p \/>If you have any information about Martin Slovacek or believe that you may be connected to my tree in any way, I would be very glad to hear from you!  Please send me an email to:  <a href=\"mailto:chris@casey.com\">chris@casey.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Slovacek Name: Martin Leopold SLOVACEK Sr. Birth: Feb 1882 Polesovice, Moravia Death: Dec 1953 Berwyn, IL Burial: 7 Dec 1953 Bohemian National Cemetary, Chicago, IL 1 Occupation: Carpenter Father: John SLOVACEK Mother: Marie MELICHARKOVY Sp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMRU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354682,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796990\/revisions\/173354682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}