In 1891, William F. Syska (b.1866-) married
Dorothee Louise Elizabeth (Lizzie) Zimmerman (1871-1954) – my great grandparents.
Lizzie’s parents, Michael Friedrich Emil (Emil) Zimmermann (1838 -1919) and Elizabetha (Lizzie) Keuper (1841-1935)
were both of German Descent.
*More about this to be posted subsequently in entry dedicated to Zimmerman Geneology and my our Great
Grandmother’s Heritage.
I haven't found the location of William and Lizzie Syska's marriage,
but with Lizzie’s family in Chicago and William’s in NY, it appears they moved
back and forth until approximately 1908 when the settled in New York, at least for a
while.
The oldest of
their eight children, Erna J Syska was born in Chicago in 1892. Four years later, their second child, William
F. Syska, Jr. (b. 1896) - my grandfather, was born in New York. According to Census records, Chester, Herbert and Clara were born in Illinois in 1899, 1901 and 1904. The 1900 Census has William and Lizzie residing in the same household with Lizzie’s parents in
Chicago. Then in 1905, their sixth child, Stanley, was born in
Missouri. The last two children,
Adiele E. (b.1908) and Gladys L (b.1910) were both born in New
York. The 1910 census has the family
residing in the Bronx. William owned and operated a Meat Market in New Rochelle, NY.
Sometime prior to 1920 the family moved to Fairfield Connecticut.
Together, William and Lizzie owned several pieces of land in Fairfield
Connecticut and appeared to be doing well. he 1927
Bridgeport Telegram, states, “Ms Adele
Syska, is planning a trip to Holyoke, Mass after the Fourth of July.”
William and Lizzie moved to Daytona Beach Florida in approximately 1930 where they spent much of the remainder of their lives and helped to raise some of their grandchildren. The 1940 census has them residing with their daughter Gladys Syska Horton and her three children. At some point, William and Lizzie returned to Connecticut. William F. Syska’s Sr. obituary (in the Bridgeport Telegram) indicates he died at the age of 89 on February 6, 1956 in North Turkey Hill, CT. where he resided with a different daughter before his death. His wife, Lizzie passed away two years earlier also in Connecticut on July 11, 1954 at the age of 83.
William Syska Sr. and Lizzie Zimmerman’s eight children included Erna J. Syska Braun (1892-), William F. Syska Jr. (1896-1981), Chester Emil Syska (1898-1983), Herbert Paul Syska (1900-1974), Clara Edith Syska Vogt Keller (1903-2001), Stanley E. Syska (1905-1979), Adiele E. Syska Burns (b. 1908-), Gladys L. Ellis Allard Horton (b-1910-2002)
William and Lizzie moved to Daytona Beach Florida in approximately 1930 where they spent much of the remainder of their lives and helped to raise some of their grandchildren. The 1940 census has them residing with their daughter Gladys Syska Horton and her three children. At some point, William and Lizzie returned to Connecticut. William F. Syska’s Sr. obituary (in the Bridgeport Telegram) indicates he died at the age of 89 on February 6, 1956 in North Turkey Hill, CT. where he resided with a different daughter before his death. His wife, Lizzie passed away two years earlier also in Connecticut on July 11, 1954 at the age of 83.
William Syska Sr. and Lizzie Zimmerman’s eight children included Erna J. Syska Braun (1892-), William F. Syska Jr. (1896-1981), Chester Emil Syska (1898-1983), Herbert Paul Syska (1900-1974), Clara Edith Syska Vogt Keller (1903-2001), Stanley E. Syska (1905-1979), Adiele E. Syska Burns (b. 1908-), Gladys L. Ellis Allard Horton (b-1910-2002)
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