Robert Anton Doupnik

Notes:

They farmed near Exeter for 45 years. After Anna's death, Robert moved to Geneva where he operated a repair shop. He was a very innovative person. Long before others on the farm had electricity he had rows of batteries and an electric engine in hais basement to provide electricity in his home. Also, he had one of the biggest steam threshing rigs around, a Case. He was the first have an automobile in Saline County. Jan Doupnik 3 July 1855 - 11 March 1932, of Thurston, Nebraska used to visit Robert Doupnik and family. The exact relationship is not known, perhaps they were cousins. (Milligan, p 262).

Robert married Anna H. Stetina after 1900. Anna was born on 19 Sep 1881; died on 17 Jun 1944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Jenning Doupnik was born after 1900.
2. Helen Mae Doupnik was born on 30 May 1906; died in Sep 1984 in Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska.
3. Georgia Doupnik was born on 3 Sep 1907 in Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska; died on 1 Apr 1982 in Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska.
4. Robert Anton Doupnik, Jr. was born on 22 Jun 1911; died on 21 Jul 1911.
5. Blanche Maxine Doupnik was born on 22 Jun 1913.

Notes:

The exact date of Anthony's arrival to this country is not known, but it is known that he applied for his U.S. citizenship at Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa on December 8, 1870. The family moved to Saline County, Nebraska, and on May 4, 1871, Anthony registered an application for a homestead. His land was the s 1/2 NW 1/4, section 30, Turkey Creek Township. He "built a house of sod thereon, 12 x 14 feet in size with two windows and one door...plowed and cultivated about 40 acres of said land and...bored a well 48 feet deep, built a stable of straw and poles and planted a small grove of forest trees. (Milligan, p 261).

Anton married Terezie Prochaska. Terezie was born before 1846 in Bohemia; died between 1883 and 1884 in Nebraska; was buried in Turkey Creek Cemetery, Saline County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Terezie and her daughter Frances left Austria aboard the Steamship Neckar, a North German Lloyd vessel, from Hamburg, Germany and arrived in New York on April 15, 1870. (Milligan, p 261).