A cousin posted a new picture up on a family Facebook page that I had never seen before of my Moravian-Nebraskan Great-Grandmother (I’m descended from her daughter Marie).
I think she looks pretty bad ass.
Her caption:
“My Czech grandmother, Augustina Tesar, is holding the family's draft horses on their ranch south of Wallace, NE, probably in about 1925. Augustina was from Moravia and Joseph Tesar, my grandfather was from Bohemia [however, my copy of his social security application lists his birthday place as Běhařovice, Moravia].
They married in September of 1906 and were on a voyage to the US the next day. They came through Ellis Island, lived for a year in Chicago, where their first child, Mary (Marie) Tesar Goad was born, then moved to Western Nebraska where they bought a section of farmland and lived in a sod house for the first few years before building a stick house for their family of 8. One child, Anton, died shortly after birth in about 1922.
My father, John Joseph Tesar, was their last child, and was born in 1925. His oldest sister, Marie, gave birth to her first child, Eula Goad, in March of 1925, only a month after my father was born.
So, Grandma Tesar and Marie, her daughter, were pregnant at the same time and delivered their babies only a month apart.”