April 22, 1930 - Newburgh Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
In 1930 Newburgh Heights, Ohio, 55 year old Joseph Zika Sr. lived with his wife of 30 years, Bertha, who was 50 years old and their daughter, Mae, who was 20 years old. His son, 28 year old Joseph Jr., and 22 year old daughter-in-law, Mary (Maria Skolyak), lived next door. Joseph married Bertha when he was 25 and she was 20 years old. Joseph Jr. was 25 when he married Mary who was 19 at the time. Joseph’s home was valued at $6,000 while his son’s home was valued at $3,500.
All five family members were born in Czechoslovakia as too were Joseph’s parent’s, his wife’s parents and his daughter-in-law’s parents. Joseph immigrated to the United States in 1912 with his wife and two children. Mary (Maria Skolyak) immigrated to the United States in 1919 (*Maria immigrated into the United States in December of 1920 with her mother, Albina Tamini-Skolyak, her sister, Albina Irene Skolyak, and her two brothers Joseph Skolyak and Benjamin Skolyak). All member’s of both households could read and write and could speak English however in their home they spoke Czechoslovakian (Slovak).
Joseph and his wife, Bertha, were not working during the 1930 census. Their daughter, Mae, was working as a bookkeeper for a auto garage. Mary was not working either however her husband, Joseph Jr., worked as a repair man in his own garage which causes me to think his sister, Mae, was working for him.
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*Based on family knowledge and per New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-195 which shows the family’s arrival date as December 13th, 1920.
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