I finally found Marianna Klosak Wojtas on the Census! I found it by the "fuzzy searches" on familysearch.org. That search engine looks up possible close spellings, unless you tell it to do exact searches. It is better than soundex searching. There was an Anna Wojlasz that came up on my search results, and she was the right age. It looks like the Census taker forgot to cross the "t" in Wojtas, and that the surname is really Wojtasz.
I had: Jozef born 1887, Marianna born 1892, Anna born 1910, Julianna born 1911, Rosa born 1913, and Caroline born 1915. Jozef and Marianna were born in Poland and immigrated. The children were all born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 1920 Census has: Joseph born 1887, Mary born 1892, Anna born 1910, Julia born 1912, Rosa born 1914, and Clara born 1916. This 1920 Census was in Rusk, Wisconsin, east of Minneapolis.
Marianna Klosak and Jozef Wojtas lived mostly in the Minneapolis area. Here is a timeline, of the dates I know about:
- 1910 Jozef and Marianna were married in Minneapolis
- 1910 child Anna Wojtas was born in Minneapolis
- 1911 (Feb) Marianna traveled with Bronislawa Sanetra, stating on Ellis Island records she was traveleing to Minneapolis where her husband Jozef Wojtas lived
- 1911 child Julianna Wojtas born in Minneapolis
- 1913 child Rosalie Wojtas born in Minneapolis
- 1915 child Caroline Wojtas born in Minneapolis
- 1915 Minneapolis city directory: 216 3rd Ave NE
- 1916 Minneapolis city directory: 220 3rd Ave NE
- 1917 Minneapolis city directory: 222 3rd Ave NE
- 1917 WWI draft registration. Jozef was listed as alien, wife and 4 children, working at Waldorf Paper Mill. His address was 222 3rd Ave NE
- 1920 Census, Rusk Wisconsin (about 70 miles east of Minneapolis)
- 1923 Minneapolis city directory: 813 Marshall St NE
- 1923 Marianna dies of TB, address on death certificate: 813 Marshall St.
- 1964 Jozef Wojtas died, said he was widowed, his spouse was Mary. Address: 15 Growland Terrace, Minneapolis, MN. He is in the SSDI (Social Security Death Index) so he most likely became a citizen.
There was also a
John Wojtas, married to a Maryanna Sandak 20 Jan 1913. They lived at 635 Marshall St, while Jozef Wojtas lived at 813 Marshall St. John worked at the same Paper Mill as Jozef, as stated on John's WWI draft card. I do not know yet whether
John and Jozef were related.
John and Marianna Wojtas had at least Anna, Stella, Joseph and Robert Wojtas. John died in 1939. The lived their lives in America in Minneapolis. On the WWI draft registration card, it said
Jozef's dependants were a wife and 4 children, which would be wife Marianna, and children: Anna, Julia, Rosa and Caroline. Which tells me that Bronislawa Sanetra was not living with the Wojtas family in 1917, or the 1920 Census. Marianna Klosak Wojtas is still the last person I know of, to have seen Bronislawa Sanetra. It is surprising to me that Marianna went to Poland, leaving behind a young baby, and while expecting another baby. I assumed traveling was very expensive and not a lot of going back and forth for young married women with young children. Even though the passage there and back could be done in under a month, it is still surprising to me that a young mother brought our relative Bronislawa Sanetra to America.
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