BENEVOLENCE HUMANITY BROTHERHOOD
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PODPORA LIDSKOST BRATRSTV1
21. listopadu (NOVEMBER) 1962
Vzicne vSrroei
100th Anniversary
Severne od mesta Lan'Skrounu ve VSTeOchach, v nynejSim okrese Usti nad Orlici, leli na cilouhe rozloze podel potoka mesteeko Cermna. Ma to zvla:Stnost, Ze j edna Cast, ktera se nazYva Horni Cermna, byla ' odjakZiva osazena evangeliky, .kdato v Dolni Cerrane bydleli valy sami katolici.
There is a village named Cermna in the eastern part of Bohemia. It is the birthplace of the forefathers of every Texan named Balcar, Chaloupka, Confal, Dusek, Haisler, Hejl, Junek, Klekar, Lesikar, Marcak, Marek, Maresh, Matejka, Motl, Pechacek, Ptacek, Ripple, Shiller, Uher and Urban.
Pied sto lety se z Horni i Do I ni Cermne obyvatele houtne do Ameriky, ponej vice do Texasu. Z horni evangelicke se tenkrat vystehovalo 56 rodin. Mezi nimi byl tea 281ety FrantiSek Coofal, ktery s manaelkou, tremi detmi a svou matkou vystehoval se v face 1889 do Texasu. Po plavbe, ktera trvala dva mesice, piljel do Galvestonu, pak do Brenham a koneene do osady Veseii.
On hundred years ago, Cermna had 279 family dwellings. The Catholics lived in the western half, the Lutherans in the eastern part of the village. Up to 1848, no one could sell his property' and move away.
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NejstarM z deti byla Terezka, ktera se narodila 26. listopadu 1862,' a ktera dosed Zije. Vzacne vYroei narozenin Terezie Valcbal'ove, rozene Coufalove, pine stoleti plodneho aivota, oslaveno bylo dristojne fadem Bila Hora eislo 16 pri Hallettsville v nedoli 11. listopadu. Pi• jai pondeli, 26. listopadu, kdy je pi• esnY den narozenin sestry Valcharoy e, bude cela nak SPJST vzpominati j ejiho vyroei a prati babiece a prababiece v rodinnem kruhu staleho zdravi, vesele mysli a spokojenosti. At' jeji dny mezi sv3imi jsou napineny oddanosti a laskou.
TEREZIE VALCHAlit
After the serfdom was abolished in 1849, the emigration to America started. One hundred thirty-nine families from Cermna moved to Texas. One of the emigrants who came here in 1869, is still living. She is MrS. Theresa Valchar, a member of Bila Hora Lodge No. 16, near Hallettsville. Her father, Frantisek Coufal, owner of the House Number 203 in Cermna, then 29 years old, came to Texas with his wife, three children and mother. It took them eight weeks to land in Galveston. Bila Hora Lodge celebrated the 100th birthday of Mrs. Valchar on Sunday, Novembebr 11th. The details are in the English Section starting on page 12. The pictures are by courtesy of the Hallettsville Tribune.