Szymon Michal Myszka

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M. Szymon Michael Myszka, born in 1828, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Peplinski) Myszka, came with his wife Maria (Kiedrowski) and their three sons to this country from Poland in 1876, and settled on a tract of land located in Section 22-Township 29-Range 4-E. They had a family of four boys and three girls. Jacob married to Anna Bloczynski; Leo (Helen Guralski); Frank (Mary Piotrowski); John (Margaret Kreft-Rose Gesicki); Anna (Martin Teresinski); Agnes (Charles Muskowski); and Pauline (Vincent Haesle). They came in this heavily wooded area, clearing land so that they could raise a few crops and food for themselves, built shelter homes from logs. As the years progressed Szymon handed down the farm to his son John in 1901. In 1908 Jacob bought the farm from his brother. Later in years Jacob sold the farm to his son Theodore and wife Frances (Writz) in the year of 1913. Jacob and his wife and children then settled on a farm located one mile northwest of Poniatowski. Theodore and Frances worked hard clearing the heavy timber of 100 acres. They used horses and logging sleighs. The house and barn were built of logs. At the beginning they had like 5 cows, 6 sheep, some pigs and chickens. To get the groceries they used sleighs once a month. Lot of field work was done by hand, grain with a cradle; hay made with sythes; straw chopped by a hexle machine and peas and beans done by flail. The women had to help a lot until the family grew up. Later Theodore built a barn in 1914 and in 1920 the brick house was built. A lot of hand work was included and later a wood stave silo was also built. In 1928 he bought a McCormick tractor and a McCormich threshing machine with which he did custom work for threshing and filling silos. He was the only one that had one, besides a small line of machinery. Theodore (dec. 1960) and Frances (dec. 1964) had 13 children namely: Leo, Andrew, Joseph, John, Paul, Julia (Boris), Rose (Buchberger), Catherine (Sis. M. Kay), Victor, Marcella (Vogedes), Martha (Zielinski), Louie, and Loretta (Jesko). Three sons served in the service U.S.A. Frances enjoyable hobbies were spinning wool and knitting. In the year of 1945, their son Leo, and wife Theresa (Bargender) bought the farm and continued to farm with the same horses and the same tractor for two years. They had 26 milk cows, and some sheep, chickens, geese, and ducks. As the years went on Leo bought more machinery, a new tractor in 1952 a Co-op tractor, silo, blower, drags, chopper, wagons and a different threshing machine with which he did custom work. In 1969 a new 44' x 104' shed was built, the house was remodeled and pine and spruce trees were planted. LUtE C | llt;l l~~l([~~ Myl~Shi4 Leo and Thersa had ten children namely: Marlyn (Sister M. Ursula), Kenneth, Carol (Sister M. Carlotta), James, Betty (Miskulin), Joyce (Benning), Glenn, Gerald, Cindy and Randy. The two daughters are nuns in the Felician Order of Chicago, and three sons farming. Theresa's parents are deceased. She came from a family of eight. Four brothers and three sisters. In. 1976, two single sons Glenn and Gerald bought the farm from them. Leo and Theresa then moved to their new home at Athens, Wisconsin. Remodeling of the barn and milkhouse was done; new pipe line milker was installed; more cows added; a new silo was built and more machinery and tractors were purchased. They are now on grade A milk and ship to A.M.P.I.