The Genealogy of the Jahn Family

Johann J. Pliska¹

Johann J. Pliska was born in May 1852 in Bohemia.²
He and Francesa Dufek were married estimated 1875.
He immigrated to America on the ship Strassberg on 23 May 1887.³
He appeared on the 1900 census on 2 June 1900 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. Enumerated at 2530 7th Ave, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE were:
1. Pliska, John, head, age 48, widowed, works as a canned beef packer, unemployed 3 years, owns his home free.
2. -----, Francis, daughter, age 23.
3. -----, Anna, daughter, age 18, works as a shirt maker.
4.-----, Tony, daughter, age 13, attended school for 9 months this year.
5. -----, Emma, daughter, age 9.
6. -----, Agnes, daughter, age 7.⁴
He died on 7 January 1910, at age 57, in South Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
He was buried estimated 9 January 1910 in St. Mary's Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.⁵

Frances Mary Pliska+ (b. 10 June 1877, d. 16 July 1948)
Mary Ann Pliska+ (b. September 1879, d. 31 May 1911)
Anna Madeline Pliska+ (b. 2 January 1882, d. 29 October 1951)
Vincenzia Pliska (b. about 1884, d. between 1887 and 1898)
Antoinette Celicia Pliska+ (b. 3 July 1886, d. 16 July 1974)
Emma Beatrice Pliska+ (b. 4 August 1891, d. 18 June 1963)
Agnes Alice Pliska+ (b. 27 March 1893, d. 16 September 1974)

[S295] Texas State Registrar Office, Autstin, FamilySearch.org, Digital Images of Death Certificates Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976, Edward Jahn, informant on his mother's death certificate, states Antoinette's father's name was John Pliska., Vol 100-107," death certificate 49769 (1974), Antoinette Cecilia Pliska Jahn, accessed 29 Dec 2014.
[S17] Nebraska, Douglas, 1900 U.S. census, Ancestry.com, Digital images, Gives born May 1852 in Bohemia., T623, roll 923, Omaha, enumeration district (ED) 7, sheet 2b, dwelling 37, family 38, John Pliska, accessed 20 Jul 2004
[S282] Leo Baca, Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, 9, 9: 134.
[S17] Nebraska, Douglas, 1900 U.S. census, Ancestry.com, Digital images, T623, roll 923, Omaha, enumeration district (ED) 7, sheet 2b, dwelling 37, family 38, John Pliska, accessed 20 Jul 2004
[S294] Pliska, Jan. photograph. 200. scanned images. Privately held by Diane Jestes Goodyear, Arizona. 2004.