Terezie "Theresia" Beznoska

1853 - 1932  (78 years)

• Name	Terezie "Theresia" Beznoska  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Nickname	Theresia
  Birth	14 May 1853	Beroun, Stredocesk? kraj, Bohemia   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Female
  Death	22 Apr 1932	Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio   [2, 3, 4]
  Burial	25 Apr 1932	Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio   [4]
  Notes	The following article, written by Rosalie Voytovich, daughter of Rose A. Jirousek, refers to her Grandparents, John and Theresa Jirousek. It was published in the January 6, 1985 SYRACUSE HERALD AMERICAN: MASTER OF THE ART OF PROTEST Grandma even coped with some of Grandpa's silly requests Everyone talks about his grandma, but not me. I am always accused of speaking in hyperbole. After all, who would believe Grandma had a child every two years from the time she was 16 to 46, and that she raised them all to adulthood? Who would believe Grandma never had a delinquent, a shirker or a discontent? Grandma was no women's libber, but she was a master of protest. She began in 1865, at age 15, when she married a tall, skinny musician-teacher from Bohemia rather than homestead in Nebraska with her parents. From the first day of her marriage, she ran her home like a tight ship and added to her crew every two years. She knitted all their stockings on 00 steel needles, made her own soap, and baked her own bread. She had no pediatrician, psychiatrist, orthodontist, or baby sitter...she was all things to all people. When John, the oldest, nearly severed his finger with a butcher knife, she got her sewing basket and sewed the pinkie together with great success. She treated bronchitis with goosegrease and turpentine, and coughs with onion brown sugar syrup. She always obeyed her husband and spoke to him with great respect. She paddled her children when they needed it, and never worried about injuring their psyche. Grandpa had a small wagon with a handle that served as a toy for the children and as a cart for him. He liked to take the market down to the farmers' market in Cleveland and buy fruits and vegetables in quantity. Grandma cooked them without a murmer. One October day, Grandpa returned triumphantly with a pumpkin bigger than a bushel basket. "Make pies, lots of pies" he commanded. "But, Jan, it's too big!" "Make pies. We'll eat them." "Yes, Jan." She made pies. When the white flour ran out, she used rye. The wood stove roared all day. She put pies on the table, the chairs, the window-sills and finally on the fence rail in the yard for all the world to see. She smiled and hummed all the while she worked. Grandpa never brought home another pumpkin. Grandma sewed by hand all the intricately tucked petticoats the girls wore. She worked in the sitting room next to the potbelly stove. Grandpa also practiced his cello music there. The lint and threads from the sewing were strewn on the carpet around where she sat. Evidently, her presence and the disorder in the usually immaculate room disturbed his concentration. "Why don't you ever sweep the floor?" he complained petulantly. "I will, Jan, I will" she replied humbly. She got the broom and quietly swept up the small pile of litter. When Grandpa sat down to eat, she got the broom and asked him to move his feet so she could sweep up a few crumbs. When he sat down next to the kitchen stove to read his newspaper, she asked him to move his chair so she could reach the wood splinter from the kindling. When they retired and her amorously stroked her shoulder, she bounded up, remembering she had neglected to sweep the pantry after doing the dishes. As he ate breakfast she pulled the table away from him in mid-bite, and industriously swept away a few dog hairs. He threw up his arms in surrender. She smiled sweetly. Grandpa played the clarinet in a band that provided music for weddings and parties. Grandpa went to lots of parties while Grandma stayed home and knitted. She never complained until Grandpa began to come home later and later and merrier and merrier from his engagements. He woke up cross and headachy the morning after. Grandma was tolerant and understanding until the morning he shouted for quiet while she was chopping prunes with a chopper in a wooden mixing bowl. "Everything is too noisy around here," he whined, "We need to eliminate all the noisy things." "Yes, Jan" she assented as she stood up. She put down the bowl and chopper and quietly took the wooden clarinet from the table where he had left it the night before. She broke it over her kneee as if it were a twig. She put the lid lifter into the cover on the wood stove and carefully stoked the fire with the clarinet. Grandpa gaped, but her never uttered a word. As I said, Grandma was a master at the art of protest. She smiled a lot. (Courtesty of Caroline Mastny, Schuyler, Nebraska) Id#: 0165259 Name: Jirousek, Theresa Date: Apr 24 1932 Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #042. Notes: Jirousek: Theresa, age 78, beloved wife of the late John, mother of John, Charles, James, William, Joseph, Stanley, Cyril and Emil, Mrs. Mary Will, Mrs. Louisa Adler, Mrs. Amalie Imburgia and Mrs. Rose Ripich, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away April 22. Funeral Monday, April 25, from late residence, 12922 Marston Ave., at 8:30 a. m.; services at Holy Family Church at 9 a. m. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Friends invited. CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY Cleveland Necrology File Search: Jirousek Name Terezie Jirousek Titles and Terms Event Type Death Event Date 22 Apr 1932 Event Place Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Residence Place Address 12922 Marston Avenue Gender Female Age 78 Marital Status Widowed Race W Occupation At home Birth Date 14 May 1853 Birthplace Beroun, Czechoslovakia Birth Year (Estimated) 1854 Burial Date 25 Apr 1932 Burial Place Cemetery Calvary Father's Name Frank Beznoska Father's Titles and Terms Father's Birthplace Beroun, Czechoslovakia Mother's Name Anna Kryl Mother's Titles and Terms Mother's Birthplace Beroun, Czechoslovakia Spouse's Name John Jirousek Spouse's Titles and Terms File Number fn 22822 GS Film number 1992572 Digital Folder Number 004001568 Image Number 00756 Citing this Record: "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X699-KSM : accessed 25 Aug 2014), Terezie Jirousek, 22 Apr 1932; citing Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference fn 22822; FHL microfilm 1992572.
  Person ID	I11857	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	Frantisek "Frank" Beznoska,   b. Abt 1822, Beroun, Stredocesk? kraj, Bohemia d. 3 Mar 1900, Morse Bluff, Saunders County, Nebraska (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Anna Krylova,   b. Abt 1821, Bohemia d. 25 Jun 1897, Saunders County, Nebraska (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1842  [1]
  Family ID	F150	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jan "John" Jirousek,   b. 14 Aug 1847, Kvetov, P?sek, Jihocesk? kraj, Bohemia d. 16 Nov 1929, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	4 Apr 1869	Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio   [2]
  Children	1. John S. Jirousek,   b. Aft 1869, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 18 Nov 1961, Ohio (Age 91 years)   2. Frank Stefan Jirousek,   b. 21 Mar 1871, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 1 Aug 1921, Cleveland City Cemetery, Cleveland, Liberty County, Texas (Age 50 years)   3. Charles Jirousek,   b. Abt 1873, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 4 Feb 1957, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 84 years)   4. Edward L. Jirousek,   b. Abt 1875, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 11 May 1900, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 25 years)   5. Frederick S. Jirousek,   b. Mar 1877, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 13 Jan 1929, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 51 years)   6. James Stephan Jirousek,   b. Abt 1878, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. Jan 1942, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 64 years)   7. William E. Jirousek,   b. 23 Jul 1879, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 13 Apr 1969, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 89 years)   8. Female Jirousek,   b. 23 Jul 1879, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. Yes, date unknown   9. Mary Jirousek,   b. 5 Apr 1881, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 11 Jun 1972, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee (Age 91 years)   10. Joseph Franklin Jirousek,   b. 20 Mar 1883, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 20 Nov 1951, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 68 years)   11. Cyril M. Jirousek,   b. 19 Apr 1885, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. Apr 1949, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 63 years)   12. Stanley William Jirousek,   b. 13 Mar 1887, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. Dec 1963, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 76 years)   13. Louise Blanche Jirousek,   b. 7 Mar 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 6 Jun 1968, Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 79 years)   14. Amelia Jirousek,   b. 8 Jul 1892, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 4 Sep 1985 (Age 93 years)   15. Emil L. Jirousek,   b. 23 Aug 1893, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. Dec 1971, Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 78 years)   16. Rose A. Jirousek,   b. 25 May 1896, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 19 Dec 1950, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F3777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 14 May 1853 - Beroun, Stredocesk? kraj, Bohemia Marriage - 4 Apr 1869 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Death - 22 Apr 1932 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Burial - 25 Apr 1932 - Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio  = Link to Google Earth
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