B.K. SMITH

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. J.D. SMITH

J. D.M. GILBERT [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name Variation: Mike Maduzia
• Census: 1910, Living with grandfather, Albert Maduzia, Robertson Co., TX
• Anecdote: 1919
• Census: 1920, State Juvenile Training School, Gatesville, Coryell Co, TX
• Land Sold: 25 Aug 1922, 110 acres, Robertson Co., TX

Notes:

Name Variation:
Birth name

Anecdote:
Mike was staying at the Albert and Annie Polka farm, Northeast of New Waverly. One Sunday, he refused to go to church and was punished. While the rest of the family was at church, he made a torch of some dried corn stalks and preceded to burn all of the laundry that was hanging on the clothes line. Joe Traylor, the constable who lived next door to the Polka farm arrested Mike and charged him with criminal mischief. Mike was convicted and spent several years in the state juvenile training school in Gatesville, TX.

Land Sold:
Mike inherited a half interest in this land from his grandfather, Albert Maduzia.

Mack Clara Bell WHITE Oct 1928Smackover, Union Co, AR. Clara about 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name Variation: Clara Bell Gilbert

Katherine MADUZIA. Katherine (daughter of Wojciech MADUZIA and Katarzyna SIWEK) Nov 1883 Bremond, Robertson Co., TX; before 1910New Waverly, Walker Co., TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name Variation: Katherine Luczak
• Anecdote: Abt 1909

Notes:

Anecdote:
Katherine, who was married to Casimir Luczak at the time, had just had a baby. Her husband had been mistreating her, so she decided to take the baby and go to Annie Polka's farm. She got off of the train on a cold November day with the newborn baby in her arms. It was very cold and the wind was blowing hard. As she crossed a fence on her way to the Polka farm, she hung her dress up in the barb wire. Becaused of her weakened state and the cold, she could not free herself. She died out in the cold and by the time the Polka's found her, the baby was also suffering from exposure. The baby died a few weeks later.

Died:
Her death date is based on the fact that her husband remarried in 1910. He was listed as a widower.