Frances (Krystyn) (Farmacka) Barta

Born July 31, 1883 died Jan 23, 1987

Franz (Frank) married Franziska (Frances)  (grandma Farmacka ) Krystyn on ??? in Koberice in Opava, NE Czechoslovakia.  Frank and Frances immigrated to America on November 11, 1911.

The Famacka family initially resided in San Gabriel, TX then moved to Thorndale, TX.  later, they  moved to Kingsville where they lived on 3 different farms.  While living in Kingsville, Grandfather Frank did business with the Kleberg County Bank whose president was their landowner.  Frank  changed the spelling of the Farmack name adding the 'a'.  It is believed that he did this because the family name was listed as Farmack on the immigration papers at Galveston, in error, and that Frank wanted to correct the family name, officially to the Czech spelling Farmacka. 

During a family interview with Charlie Farmacka (Son of Frank), Charlie mentioned that Frank Farmacka died in Banquete, TX (near Robstown) and was buried in Kingsville, TX in the King Ranch cemetery.  The boys were mowing their 10 acre field and Frank did not feel well at noon.  At about 2: p.m. he came down to the field where they were and about an hour later the boys brought the tractor back up to the shed.  Frank walked from the field and just as he got to the shed he fell.  Charlie, Andy and Louis brought him to the house unconscious.  Frances felt of him and told the boys he was dead.  A doctor and an ambulance came out from Kingsville to pick him up and take him back to Kingsville for burial..   

Years later, in 19xx after Pete Barta put a mail-order bride advertisement in a local Czech newspaper Pete married Frances Farmacka who was living approx. 1.5 miles outside of Banquete, TX (6 miles West of Robstown, TX) at that time.  Pete Barta and his daughter and her husband came to Banquete to pick up Frances and take her back to Oak Forest.

Later, after Pete Barta died, Frances moved to Granger, TX and lived with Paul until she bought her own home in Granger.  When she was approx. 88 yrs old she moved into the Granger nursing home where she died in 1987 when was 103 yrs old.

Charlie, Andy, Lilly and Rose stayed on the farm after Frances married Pete Barta.  This is where  Andy shot Charlie accidentally during deer hunting season.  The bullet entered his left chest, scrapped his heart, broke some ribs and is to this day lodged just outside his left shoulder blade.  He walked into the hospital soaked in blood and the last thing he said before passing out was "Don't cut my new boots off!"  Charlie said that he can remember them taking scissors and starting to cut them.  He was in the hospital 19 days and was given last rites by the priest.  But God had a different plan for his life.  Charlie went on to become a minister in San Antonio, TX in later years.

Flora was already married and Tony was in Austin.  Tony came and got Rose and she probably lived with them until she got a job working for a family.  This is where Rose met Johnny Watson.  Lilly went to work for a family in Robstown.

Charlie and Andy later sold everything and moved to Corpus and went to work at the Karbach Gin Company.  The company owned the entire block with a gin on each end and the office/scale in the middle.  They lived above there. They worked there about 5 years.  Charlie was 21 and Andy was 23 at the time.   From there they went to work for Boatwright painting water towers (that's another story - so funny!) still in Corpus.  They quit that job went back to work at Karbach.  Later they  quit Karbach and split up and went their separate ways.  Andy later met and married Helen Adams.  Again Charlie and Andi joined up and went to work in the oil field at Telfner, Tx (outside Victoria) where Charlie met Myrtle.  They married 2 years later and moved to Houston where Andy and Charlie got together again and went to work in the shipyards during the war.

Frances at 102	Frances Birth Certificate
Frances' Naturalization Certificate	Frances' 100 Year Certificate

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