This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WUSSOW, RADLOFF, LEE, CHAKA, CJEKA, CEJKA, STRANSKY?, STERBA? Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.republic/262/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for the husband, marriage, and any information on Nettie CHAKA or CJEKA or CEKJA BROWN. Her first name may be Antoinette or the Czech Antonija. In the 1895 KS census, her first name is given as Artonna. I don't know what Czech name Nettie is derived from. She was born around 1881 in Bohemia and immigrated about 1885. She died after 1930 in the Winfield, IA, area. Her father was Frank CHAKA or CJEKA or CEKJA born 12/25/1850 in Bohemia and died 9/5/1919 in Tabor, KS, immigrated 1885, and is buried in the Tabor Cemetery. I found her sister, Mary Ann CHAKA or CJEKA or CEKJA WUSSOW in the 1900 census, working in Belleville, Republic, Kansas. Mary married in 1903 and was cited as being from Cuba, Kansas. The family was said to live in Munden, KS. I suspect that Frank may never have owned land, but may have been a farm laborer who moved. He emigrated with an older woman, either his mother or mother-in-law(b. c. 1810 - 35), who may have been a STRANSKY or STERBA or STUBA. I have never found information on her. Nettie had one son, Merle BROWN, born Feb 1898 in either Kansas or Iowa. I know nothing about his father. I have found Nettie in the 1910 Federal census in Iowa, a widower and with Merle. I have absolutely no information on her prior to that in Kansas, except in the 1895 Kansas Census where she is listed as Artonna, 16, and is living in Fairview Township, Republic, KS, with her father and sister. Any help in finding her and her husband and marriage or the birth of Merle, would be appreciated.