Sustiks
From 1867 to 1918 Austria and Hungary comprised of many smaller countries, which had made up the nation of Austria-Hungary. The station at Ellis Island recorded 2.2 million people who had come from that area of Europe. These people represented a wide variety of ethnic groups from there. They included Maygars (Hungarians), Slovaks, Poles, Bohemian, and Czechs, and many other Slovak peoples. In 1918 the Czechs and Slovaks formed the independent nation of Czechoslovakia. A little over 48,000 immigrants came to this country through Ellis Island around that time. But many more had arrived in the US while those two countries were under Austrian and Hungarian rule prior to 1918. Those that had arrived early on such as John and Barbara Sustik came looking for jobs and wanted to escape the overcrowding of their towns and villages. Those that came first had paved the way through Galveston, Texas, for their friends and other family members to come later. They usually came as groups of families, and had settled in the Midwest areas often farming and mining.
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.
John Sustik (Szuscik) had married Barbora Polak (born Nov 10, 1870) in 1898 and raised their family at Street #220, Doubrava, Bohemian (Czechoslovakia), their religion being Roman Catholic.
John and Barbora decided to move their family to the United States. Among them were Frances, (born 6 Jan 1896, died 24 Feb 1988), Henry,(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.
Dillonvale, Oh early 1900.
John and Barbora (Polak) Sustik (Szuscik) lived out their lives in Dillonvale, Ohio. John Sustik born Dec 25, 1873, 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. Barbora's sister Anastazie Polak married John Chrobak and had several children, one of whom was Joe Chrobak who later remarried Minnie Richetti Sustik when Henry died.
