Jan Jirovec and Mary Jirovec

and Their Descendants

From the Clarkson, Nebraska Centennial History Book, 1886-1986

Help!!! I know Mary Jirovec was Marie Kulhanek's (my great grandmother) cousin but I do not know who either of their parents were. If anyone has any information please send me an e-mail!

Jan Jirovec and Mary Jirovec

Jan (John) Jirovec was born June 24, 1835 in Nevolice near Domazlice, Dist. of Plzen, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Jan Jirovec married Mary Jirovec in Bohemia. Although they had the same last name they were in no way related.

Mary Jirovec was born February 25, 1847 in Spanov near Domazlice, Dist. Of Plzen, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Jan and Mary were the parents of twelve children, in the following paragraphs 10 of their twelve children are mentioned. The other two girls died at very young ages, and their names and birthdates are not known.

• Katherine Jirovec was born July 26, 1869 in Domazlice, Bohemia. She married Anton Simic in 1893 in Morse Bluffs, Nebraska.
• Mary Jirovec was born June 13, 1872 in Domazlice, Bohemia. She married Joseph Kocour in Morse Bluffs, Nebraska.
• Annie Jirovec was born in Domazlice, Nebraska and died at an early age in saunders County, Nebraska.
• Vaclav Jirovec was born January 10, 1880 in Domazlice, Bohemia. He married Bozena Rybacek in 1903 at St. John Nepomic Catholic Church, Howells, Nebraska.

In 1881 Jan and Mary and their four children decided to leave their homeland and come to America in company of Jiri (George) Kulhanek and Katerina (Vitek) Kulhanek and Peter Vogltanz (now spelled Vogeltance and Mary (Kulhanek) Vogltanz and their families. George Kulhanek and his sister, Mary Kulhanek Vogltanz were cousins to Mary Jirovec Jirovec.

After they arrived in America they all traveled to Chicago to visit Mary Jirovec's sister, Anna (Jirovec) Pajdar and her family. After a few months later, the immigrant group traveled to Nebraska where the Kulhanek and Vogltanz families settled near Dodge. The Jirovec family traveled further south and homesteaded in Sauders County, near Morse Bluffs, Nebraska.

While they lived in Saunders County they had eight more children:

• Joseph Jirovec was born in Saunders County and died at an early age in Saunders County.
• Joseph Frank Jirovec was born march 20, 1884 in Saunders County. He married Antonia Koza July 30, 1906 in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Anna Mary Jirovec was born November 27, 1886 in Saunders County. She married Frank Kubik in 1925 at St. John Nepomic Catholic Church, Howells, Nebraska.
• Josephine Agnes Jirovec was born January 20, 1888 in Saunders County. She married Frank Uridel September 20, 1910 at S.S. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church, Clarkson, Nebraska.
• Frank Jirovec birthdate unknown. He died in 1954.

The family lived in Saunders County for 10 years and passed through many days of hardships, bitterness, and sorrow for it was during those trying years that two of their children, Anna and Joseph died.

In 1891 they decided to move to Colfax County and purchased a farm four miles southeast of Clarkson, Nebraska. While living there they had a daughter:

• Louise Kate Jirovec born June 21, 1891. She married Leo Zelenda June 12, 1928 at the Catholic Rectory in Clarkson, Nebraska.

In 1907 Jan and Mary retired from farming and moved to Clarkson and purchased the John Hamernik residence in the south part of town. Jan and Mary were charter members of the S.S. Cyril and Methodius Catholic church in Clarkson.

Jan Jirovec died October 20, 1914 and is buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Clarkson. Mary Jirovec Jirovec died January 16, 1937 and is buried beside her husband.

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