Sustik and Ricchetti History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Sustik and Richetti Family History</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sustik and Richetti Family History"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <B>Sustiks</B>   |   <A HREF="id97.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Henry Sustik">Henry Sustik</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="224a9e50.jpg" border=0 width="169" height="229" ALT="Barbora Polak Sustik " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hand Painting of Barbora Polak Sustik</div> <div> There are no known pictures of John Sustik</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family History The Beginning">Sustik and Richetti Histor</A>y</div> <div> <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FBI Files and Records">FBI Survielance on the Sustiks and Richettis</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Story">My Story</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fred H. 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They usually came as groups of families, and had settled in the Midwest areas often farming and mining.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>John Sustik original spelling, ( Szuscik) (born Dec 25, 1873), was from Raj, which in 1883 was a  village of 223 inhabitants, and by 1930 consisted of 263 inhabitants thereof 255 Czech and 1 German; part of the political county Caslau (Czech: Caslav), court district of Habren (Czech: Habry), Middle Bohemia.   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>John Sustik (Szuscik) had married Barbora Pollak (born Nov 10, 1870)   in 1898  and raised their family at Street #220,  Doubrava, Bohemian (Czechoslovakia),  their religion being Roman Catholic.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> John  and Barbora decided to move their family to the United States.  Among them were Frances, (born 10 Jan 1896,  died 24 Feb 1988) she had married William (Richetti) Dematte, </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id97.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Henry Sustik"><B> Henry,</B></A></FONT><B>(born 12 July 1899, died 27 Dec 1970 Dillonvale, Oh),  Joe (born 31 Jan 1901, died 24 Jan 1971) and Hermenia, 94 (born 1903, currently living 2001) and Emil (born 18 Aug 1904, died 28 May 1995) all being born in Czechoslovakia.  They had  immigrated to this country as a family in 1906 through Galveston, Texas, and eventually found there way into the Lehigh area of Oklahoma where they met the Richetti family around 1907-08.  While they were living in Lehigh, John Polak, Barbora's brother had also immigrated to the US in 1908, and joined them.    They had left the old country for the United States in order to start a new life. </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="45a32c40.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="196" ALT="Dillonvale, Ohio circa early 1900" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dillonvale, Oh early 1900.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>John and Barbora (Polak-(Pollak?)(sp)) Sustik (Szuscik) lived out their lives in Dillonvale, Ohio farming and working in the coal mines of the area.  John Sustik born in Raj, Bohemia, died on August 14, 1940,  he was 67 years old.  Barbora died in April, year unknown, both are buried at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Karl Polak (Pollak) (born 1860) and Josephine Kuznik were married in 1882.  Their daughter Anastazie born in 1889, Barbora Pollak Sustik's cousin married John Chrobak and had several children, Mary, John and Joe.  Joe was born Feb 21, 1912 in Lazy, Austria, he was Henry's cousin whom eventually remarried Minnie Richetti Sustik after Henry's death.</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4832dcc0.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="204" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Joe and Minnie</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Joe had been a carpenter his whole life and a member of the Slovak Society.  Joe died on April 21st 1998 at the age of 86. Joe had 3 children, Christopher, Sara and Anastasia. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>John & Barbora (Polak) Sustik</TITLE> <LINK REV="made" href="mailto:fsustik@hotmail.com"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Adam Richetti; Minnie Richetti; Dave Richetti; Marie Richetti; Eva Richetti; Henry Sustik; Fred Sustik Joe Richetti"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="The history of the first Sustiks"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Fred S. Sustik"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL">  </HEAD>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>