Bio: Stamcar, Joseph & Rose

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Stamcar, Krasovec, Cesnik, Dragan, Brezonik, Holub, O’Brien, Hughes

----Source: Family Scrapbook

Our parents, Joseph Stamcar and Rose Krasovec were born in Smarjeta na Celja which is close to Novo Mesto. Our father came from a town close by, by the name of Trebelna.

Our father came to America, uncertain of the year, but would be close to the turn of the century. After working some time he went back to Europe and came back with Rose, our mother. Mother told us it took seven weeks to cross the ocean. They came third-class, the cheapest and worst way. They encountered very bad storms. Mother often said she thought if she ever comes to dry land, never again would she go back and she never did.

They were married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in abu ' 1905. Sometime later, after their first child Joe was born, they moved to San Francisco, California. Our father did masonry work and masons were needed after the earth¬quake there. They stayed on for nearly three years and their second child Mary was born there. They then returned to Milwaukee where Tony and Rose were born — Rose in 1910 and Tony in 1912.

Through an ad in the Amerikanski Slovenec our father inquired about land for sale in Willard. He answered an ad of a Mr. Ignac Cesnik, a land agent. Our father then purchased 20 acres of land, unseen and no picture, price unknown. Later on he purchased 80 acres more and the price was $1000.00 which was a lot of money in those days.

John and Annie were born in Willard. It was all hard work, picking stones, brushing and tilling the land from dawn to dusk. But in later years it became, with its background, one of the outstanding farms around Willard.

As of today, Joe lives in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Mary Stamcar Dragan passed away in 1965. Rose and Tony never married. Rose died in 1973. Mother Rose died in 1964 and Tony died the next day. Annie Stamcar Brezonik lives in Elm Grove, Wisconsin. Father Joseph Stamcar passed away in 1941.

The farm was first sold to a Mr. George Hughes, then to a Mr. O'Brien and it now belongs to a Mr. Holub.

Many years of hard work were put into this farm. The masonry work on the barn and silo and all the foundations, including the brick house, was all done by Su' father with the help of the rest of us. And that would go for our original log house which had a home-made fireplace and cook stove combination. The original barn of course was all logs.

In the beginning the clearing, logging and all the original farming was done by hand with the help of a team of oxen.

Today you can see the results of all the the hard work that all the first settlers did, for now we have a beautiful Willard countryside.

Submitted by John Stamcar

 

 


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