Daughter of Joseph Kroupa and Mary Kocek of Bohemia.Austria,Czec. Repblic
Beloved wife of Frank Vacha(Walker)The Vacha family started to change their last name to the American version of Walker circa 1900 .
Dearest mother of 11 children,nine were still living at the time of her death.
Anthony Walker was born in Cleveland,Cuyahoga county Ohio,when they were all down for the Vacha family reunions.
In 1910 ANTHONY Walker son of Anna and Frank Vacha petitioned the Wayne count clerk in Detroit MI.To change the name Vacha to Walker. His Father Frank Vacha refused to hear of it and kept his given surname of Vacha.Frank Vacha then erected his own headstone,in Holy Cross cemetery on Dix on the southwest side of Detroit.He is with some of his children.
Known children thus far;
Mary Walker born in Bohemia, Czech. Republic. circa 1877-1878. Mary marries John Horkey. In Detroit Michigan. Wayne county on Feb. 28 1905 . John was the son of John Horkey of Bohemia, and Josephine Bender Horkey also of Bohemia.
Together this couple built/worked a very large successful farm near 12 mile road in the Royal Oak ,Oakland County Michigan area.
Elizabeth Walker born IN 1882, DIED in August 1945, Detroit Michigan marries Joseph Thomas Rakovan on September 08, 1908 , in Detroit wayne county Michigan. Lived on Ash street in Detroit Michigan
sources;
a copy of court papers on file at Mt.Elliot cemetery Detroit MI. death certificates
Wayne county clerk papers filed in 1910
Death cert.
WALKER/VACHA family Bible
Beloved wife of Frank Vacha(Walker)The Vacha family started to change their last name to the American version of Walker circa 1900 .
Dearest mother of 11 children,nine were still living at the time of her death.
Anthony Walker was born in Cleveland,Cuyahoga county Ohio,when they were all down for the Vacha family reunions.
In 1910 ANTHONY Walker son of Anna and Frank Vacha petitioned the Wayne count clerk in Detroit MI.To change the name Vacha to Walker. His Father Frank Vacha refused to hear of it and kept his given surname of Vacha.Frank Vacha then erected his own headstone,in Holy Cross cemetery on Dix on the southwest side of Detroit.He is with some of his children.
Known children thus far;
Mary Walker born in Bohemia, Czech. Republic. circa 1877-1878. Mary marries John Horkey. In Detroit Michigan. Wayne county on Feb. 28 1905 . John was the son of John Horkey of Bohemia, and Josephine Bender Horkey also of Bohemia.
Together this couple built/worked a very large successful farm near 12 mile road in the Royal Oak ,Oakland County Michigan area.
Elizabeth Walker born IN 1882, DIED in August 1945, Detroit Michigan marries Joseph Thomas Rakovan on September 08, 1908 , in Detroit wayne county Michigan. Lived on Ash street in Detroit Michigan
sources;
a copy of court papers on file at Mt.Elliot cemetery Detroit MI. death certificates
Wayne county clerk papers filed in 1910
Death cert.
WALKER/VACHA family Bible
Daughter of Joseph Kroupa and Mary Kocek of Bohemia.Austria,Czec. Repblic
Beloved wife of Frank Vacha(Walker)The Vacha family started to change their last name to the American version of Walker circa 1900 .
Dearest mother of 11 children,nine were still living at the time of her death.
Anthony Walker was born in Cleveland,Cuyahoga county Ohio,when they were all down for the Vacha family reunions.
In 1910 ANTHONY Walker son of Anna and Frank Vacha petitioned the Wayne count clerk in Detroit MI.To change the name Vacha to Walker. His Father Frank Vacha refused to hear of it and kept his given surname of Vacha.Frank Vacha then erected his own headstone,in Holy Cross cemetery on Dix on the southwest side of Detroit.He is with some of his children.
Known children thus far;
Mary Walker born in Bohemia, Czech. Republic. circa 1877-1878. Mary marries John Horkey. In Detroit Michigan. Wayne county on Feb. 28 1905 . John was the son of John Horkey of Bohemia, and Josephine Bender Horkey also of Bohemia.
Together this couple built/worked a very large successful farm near 12 mile road in the Royal Oak ,Oakland County Michigan area.
Elizabeth Walker born IN 1882, DIED in August 1945, Detroit Michigan marries Joseph Thomas Rakovan on September 08, 1908 , in Detroit wayne county Michigan. Lived on Ash street in Detroit Michigan
sources;
a copy of court papers on file at Mt.Elliot cemetery Detroit MI. death certificates
Wayne county clerk papers filed in 1910
Death cert.
WALKER/VACHA family Bible
Beloved wife of Frank Vacha(Walker)The Vacha family started to change their last name to the American version of Walker circa 1900 .
Dearest mother of 11 children,nine were still living at the time of her death.
Anthony Walker was born in Cleveland,Cuyahoga county Ohio,when they were all down for the Vacha family reunions.
In 1910 ANTHONY Walker son of Anna and Frank Vacha petitioned the Wayne count clerk in Detroit MI.To change the name Vacha to Walker. His Father Frank Vacha refused to hear of it and kept his given surname of Vacha.Frank Vacha then erected his own headstone,in Holy Cross cemetery on Dix on the southwest side of Detroit.He is with some of his children.
Known children thus far;
Mary Walker born in Bohemia, Czech. Republic. circa 1877-1878. Mary marries John Horkey. In Detroit Michigan. Wayne county on Feb. 28 1905 . John was the son of John Horkey of Bohemia, and Josephine Bender Horkey also of Bohemia.
Together this couple built/worked a very large successful farm near 12 mile road in the Royal Oak ,Oakland County Michigan area.
Elizabeth Walker born IN 1882, DIED in August 1945, Detroit Michigan marries Joseph Thomas Rakovan on September 08, 1908 , in Detroit wayne county Michigan. Lived on Ash street in Detroit Michigan
sources;
a copy of court papers on file at Mt.Elliot cemetery Detroit MI. death certificates
Wayne county clerk papers filed in 1910
Death cert.
WALKER/VACHA family Bible
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