1. 1. Robert Louis WANICKI
2. Ronald Lee WANICKI
3. Richard Lorren WANICKI

MILITARY: Service Discharge #107436 vol. 182, pg 421

SS Death Records show Aug 23, 1907 as birthdate

OBIT: Name: Wanicki, Louis S. Sr.
Date: Oct 4 1974
Source: Plain Dealer
Notes: Wanicki. Louis S. Wanicki, Sr., of Brecksville, beloved husband of Elizabeth (nee Ziolkowski), father of Louis, Jr., Lawrence and Virginila Blythin, grandfather of seven, brother of Geneieve Kutolowski, Irene Stankiewicz, John and Stanley and the late Anna Batulewicz, Isabelle Dart and Tillie. Services will be held Saturday, October 5, at 9:30 a.m., at Cassidy Funeral Home, Brecksville, 8969 Brecksville Rd., (Rt 21 South of Rt 82), and St. Basil Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Visitation Friday 2-5 And 7-9 P.M.

DEATH: Heart Attack

BURIAL: Originally at Calvary Cemetery, Sec. 61, Lot 883, Grave 2. Later removed to All Saints Cemetery in Northfield.

MARRIAGE: License application lists ZIOLKOWSKI, KAZMIERA and WANICKI, LOUIS vol.0169 pg.0590 (Cuyahoga County Marriage License Index)

Elizabeth lived in Lorain, Ohio when they married.

OCCUPATION:
1930 - Seamstress in a clothing factory (per 1930 census).

CENSUS:
1930 - 922 Fourteenth St., Lorain, Ohio (ED 47-18, Sheet 14A, Lines 20-21) Living with her widowed mother.

OBIT:
WANICKI, ELIZABETH K: Wife of late Louis Sr-Obit in Plain Dealer 24 Oct, 2000, pg. 7 sec. B

MARRIAGE:
ZIOLKOWSKI, KAZMIERA and WANICKI, LOUIS vol.0169 pg.0590
(Cuyahoga County Marriage License Index)

Marriage application lists ZIOLKOWSKI, KAZMIERA and WANICKI, LOUIS v0169 pg0590

1. 2. Louis Stepan WANICKI, Jr
2. Lawrence J. WANICKI
3. Virginia Elizabeth WANICKI

Vincent's family was said to be well-to-do and owned a large, prosperous farm in Lithuania where they employed several field hands. When the Russians came to try to take over their property, they worked a deal to save their farm where Vincent would join the Cossacks and serve in their Army. Whether this is true or not, is uncertain. During the late 1800's, males had to serve 25 years in the military. One of the few stories that have been passed down through the family about this experience is that he got to play clarinet for the Czar of Russia as part of a Cossack band. After the feast, the band members were allowed to go to the table to eat upon gold plates. He had never seen such a feast before in his life.

His daughter, Isabel, was supposedly named for his sister.

He was described variously as dear, sweet, home person, pious, good father, very nice, religous, but very strict.

Naturalization papers specify his birthplace as Sapiergizkis. Various other spellings of this town are also usable: Sapiezyszki, Sapienyszki, Sapizishok or Sepizishok (Jewish version), and the modern version, Zapyskis. The town is located NW of Kaunas at 54N55 23E40 on the south bank of the river. Classification of the town is Zapyskis, Marijampole Uszd, Suwalki Gubernia, Lithuania -- probably the equivalent of our City, County, State, Country.

The Zapyskis Estate was set up on the first half of the 16th century. It was owned by the Sapiega family, thus carrying the name of Sapiegikis for some time; later on, it was renamed Zapyskis. The small town of Zapyskis was mentioned in the late 16th century. The Kaunas-Virbalis trading and mail track went through Zapyskis. On the second half of the 16th century, P. Sapiega initiated and funded building of a church. (It was repaired and reconstructed in 1677, 1744, 1763, after the 1812 War and after the 1846 Flood. Sermons have not been held since the early 20th century). A parish school functioned in the 17th century. The town was devastated during the wars in the mid-17th and early-18th centuries. Annexed to Prussia in 1795, Zapyskis was incorporated into Russia in 1815. Trade livened up (markets and fairs were organised). In 1825-1847, Zapyskis had the urban rights. The flood in 1846 caused much damage to the town, as did the 1957 fire and WWI. In 1919-1950, Zapyskis was the centre of a rural district. Inhabitants of Zapyskis were engaged in agriculture, fishing, and small crafts. (Source: http://www.lietuva-jums.lt/IMI/i_en.jsp?nr=zapyskis_sen_apie_seniunija)

Zapyškis thru the ages
1501 Panemune
1559 Zopijskei
1578 Sapiežyszki
1599 Sopežiški
1613 Sapieczyški
1808 Zapieciszki
1883 Sapežiški
1900 Sapiežiškiai
1911-1917 Zapiškis
1915 Szapjechischki
1920-1923 Zapyškis
1941 Sapieschyschken


IMMIGRATION:
Per his naturalization papers, Vincent departed from Hamburg on the SS Palatia 19 Mar 1898 and arrived in New York City on 31 Mar 1898. He stated that his destination was Wooster (Worcester?), Massachusetts. He arrived in Cleveland on 21 Oct 1898. The actual ship manifest, so far, has not been found.

SPECULATIONS:
On 29 Jan 2003, this researcher (Sandra Wanicki Rozhon) discovered that a Kazimiery Juszkiewicz arrived at Ellis Island on 03 Apr 1912 aboard the FINLAND. His destination was his brother, Wilunas (spelling?) Juszkiewicz. His home town is listed as Szapieziskis! He was 30 years of age, so born about 1882 and married (his wife's name isn't quite legible on the ship's manifest). He stated that he had been in the U.S. in 1905 in Worcester (Vincent's destination, also), but his final destination in 1912 was Elizabethtown, N.J.. The question certainly is whether this fellow is possibly a relative of Vincent's first wife?
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Attempts to find Vincent listed in the ship's manifest for those dates has been fruitless -- the closest record resembling his name and age was Julian (or Yulian) Winitzki who was headed for Milwaukee where his cousin (named Marcin Adamsky) lived. This fellow listed Chovocz as the city he emigrated from. It so happens that there is a town only 4 miles away from where our Vincent was born that sounds much like this one, though not spelled the same. One strike against this name is that if this is an exact spelling, most Winitzki's that have been found seem to be Jewish.
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A second possibility is Vicent Bielansky if he was travelling under someone else's name. Another possibility is a Wincenz Wanicki who arrived 13 Aug 1901 on the Friedrich Der Grosse out of Bremen. He emigrated from Rzcgocin?? and listed his ethnicity as Galicy. He had a wife and child with him. While not from the right timeframe, there is a "Kasimir Winicki" (listed as Kasmimir Wunicki on the Ellis Island website index) who arrived in 9 April 1909 on The Rhaetia from a town called "Piple" which I've determined is only 4 miles east of Zapyskis, so also possibly a relative of some sort. His destination was his sister-in-law, Veronica Loslowicz, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Kasimir's age is difficult to decipher. It could be 22 or 42. He lists his wife as a close relative back in Lithuania. Her first name is also difficult to decipher from the original manifest. Starts with an "M"
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FROM PALATIA SHIP MANIFEST [31 Mar 1898]:
Pg 153 0012. Winitzki, Yulian M 28y M Russian, Pole Chovocz [destination - Milwaukee)
Pg 168 0011. Bielansky, Vicent M 26y M Russian, Pole Pokosny [name may be Pielansky] [destination - Shenandoah,PA]
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FROM FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE SHIP MANIFEST [13 Aug 1901]:
Wanicki, Wincenz M 29y M Galicy Rzcgocin
Wanicki, Bronislawa F 24y M Galicy Rzcgocin
Wanicki, Marya F 9y S Galicy Rzcgocin



CENSUS:
1910 Ohio Census (Ward 24, E.D. 362, sheet 5, 8205 Pulaski Avenue N.E.) lists Wincenty Wanicki; wife Angelica; children Anna (13), Isabel (3), Ludwig (2), and Tekla (11 months). Vincent's age at the time was 40, second marriage, married for 5 years (so they must have married around 1905), arrived in USA in 1899 (this differs from what he claimed on his Naturalization papers), he spoke English, worked in a Drill Factory, and was renting upstairs at that address.

CENSUS:
1920 Ohio Census (ED 299, sheet 27B [?], lines 99-100 4100 E.59th, Cleveland.
1920 " " " " sheet 28A, lines 51-57
Lists all children except for Anna.

RESIDENCES:
1899 - 138 Sowinski (city directory)
1900 - 156 Hoffman (census - possibly as Fritz Winitzski though month of birth is different. Everything else matches well. Right neighborhood.)
1904 - 81 Pulaski (city directory) Helper
1905 - 81 Pulaski (city directory) Helper
1906 - 91 Pulaski (city directory) Car Repairman
(noted on Isabel's birth certificate)
1907 - 8301 Pulaski (city directory) Car Repairman
1908 - 8210 Sowinski (city directory) Car Repairman
1909 - 8210 Sowinski (city directory)
1909 - 8209 Pulaski (city directory) Finisher
1910 - 8205 Pulaski (as noted in 1910 Census) Machine ??? Drill factory
1910 - 7988 Sowinski Milkman
1911 - 8002 Sowinski (city directory) Milkman
1912 - 8002 Sowinski (city directory) Milkman
1912 - 1187 East 80th St. (Declaration of Intention) Milkman
1913 - 8002 Sowinski (city directory) Polisher (reamer)
1914 - 2492 Thurman (westside)(Irene's birth certificate) Polisher
1915 - 4116 East 59th St. (city directory & Jennie's deathcert)Polisher
1916 - 4116 East 59th St. (city directory) Polisher
1917 - 4116 East 59th St. (Petition for Naturalization) Polisher
1918 - 4127 East 56th St. (city directory) Polisher
1919 - 4127 East 56th St. (city directory) Polisher
1920 - 4100 East 59th St. Purchased this home Polisher
1921 - 4100 East 59th St. Polisher
1922 - 4100 East 59th St. Polisher
1923 - 4100 East 59th St. Polisher
1924 - 9815 Greenview Purchased this home Polisher (Garfield Hts)
1925 - 4184 East 75th St. (city directory) Polisher
1926 - 4280 East 71th St. (city directory) Polisher
1927 - 4184 East 75th St. (city directory) Laid off (never returned to work)
1929 - 7014 Claasen (city directory)
Remained on Claasen until he died in 1936.

MARRIAGE:
Married at St. Casimir's Church on Sowinski Ave.. Witnesses: Anthony Subonis, Sophie Mrocinska, Bern Getsewicz (in 1910 census as GECAWICZ, a carpenter, of 1107 E. 79th St.), Mary Nowakowska

NATURALIZATION:
Wanicki Vincent Address: 4116 E.59 St. Cleveland,Ohio 713175-Vol.41,pg.16 Court of CommonPleas, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio Born: * Russia May 12,1871 Date and Port: March 19, 1898 - New York Naturalized: Sept.11,1917 Witnesses: Karl Lachowski - 6923 Clement Ave. Martin Budniak - 3736 E. 69 St. Notes: * country of allegiance Soundex: W520

DEATH:
WANICKI, Wincenty Death date: 3/11/1936, Cuyahoga County Certificate #15937
Died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

BURIAL:
Calvary Cemetery, Sec 59, Lot 310, Grave 2

OBIT:
Unsuccessfully searched for an obituary in the Cleveland Press. It's possible that an obit was published in the local Polish newspaper.

OBIT:
Name: Wanicki, Vincent
Date: 1936
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #083.
Notes: 1872-1936. Calvary Cemetery Cleveland, O.

Birth place -
Borkowo was located on the map as Borkowo Koscielne, near Sierpc.
Borkowo - Latitude: 52.8333, Longitude: 19.7167
Not far away to the southeast is a town called Dziembakowo which is probably where their surname was derived.
Dziembakowo, Mazowiekie (current province), Plock (former province) - Latitude: 52.8167 Longitude: 19.7500
DZIEMBAKOWO (gm. Sierpc). Dwór murowany z 1. połowy XIX w. Charakterystyczna wystawka dachowa oraz ganek z tarasem. Całość otoczona jest parkiem krajobrazowym z XIX w.

IMMIGRATION:
Arrived in U.S.A. 1903 (per 1910 Census).

CENSUS:
1910 Ohio Census (Ward 24, E.D. 362, sheet 5, 8205 Pulaski Avenue N.E.) lists Angelica as 31 years old, in her first marriage, with three children born to her and three children still living. She spoke Polish and had no occupation.

Aniela was good and kind, but also strict, but never mean. She was taller than her husband, who stood at 5'9". She was very good with her hands and created many things with her crocheting. When she died, her aunts came in and took away all the things she had made such as lace blouses, doilies, etc. They also took Tiffany lamps, which suggests that the lamps MIGHT have been from the Dziembak or Czacherski family. Since there weren't any Dziembak relatives in Cleveland, that only leaves the Czacherski's. The aunts in question, then would be the wives of her uncles, Anthony and Joseph.

DEATH:
Certificate #5482 - Adherent Placenta. Died a few days after developing complications during the birth of Felix. Ohio Death Index lists Vol 3314, cert #41212 under the name of WANICKA AMELA.

BURIAL:
From Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. Calvery Cemetery, Range 85, Sec 47, Lot 3738. Red granite stone.

OBIT:
None found in Cleveland Press. Might have appeared in Polish newspaper.

1. Isabel WANICKI b. 27 Apr 1906, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; c. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 16 Jan 1946, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; bur. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
2. 4. Louis Stepan WANICKI b. 25 Aug 1907, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; c. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 1 Oct 1974, Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. Teckla (Tillie) WANICKI b. 28 Apr 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 19 May 1940, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
4. Genevieve D. WANICKI b. 10 Apr 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; c. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 7 Aug 1989, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. Mieczystaw Kasimir WANICKI, [infant] b. 26 Dec 1912, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 18 Jan 1913, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
6. Irene WANICKI b. 1 Jan 1914, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; c. 11 Jan 1914, St. John Cantius, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 23 Sep 1981, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
7. Clara (Jennie) WANICKI, (infant) b. 18 Sep 1915, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 8 Nov 1915, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
8. John W. WANICKI b. 21 Oct 1916, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; c. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 13 Feb 2005, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
9. Stanley Anthony WANICKI, Sr. b. 27 Jul 1918, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 16 Nov 1989, Fairview General Hospital, Fairview, Cuyahoga County. Ohio ; bur. 20 Nov 1989, Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
10. Felix WANICKI, (infant) b. 31 May 1920, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Sep 1920, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

IMMIGRATION:
Arrived 1892 (per 1910 census), 1895 (per 1920 census)

NATURALIZATION:
1905 (per 1920 census)

RESIDENCES:
Moved to Ohio sometime between 1907 and 1910 as his youngest daughter is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania but the family appears in the 1910 census for Ohio.
1910 - 922 Fourteenth Street, Black River Township, Lorain Cty, Ohio
1920 - 922 Fourteenth Street, Black River Township, Lorain Cty, Ohio

CENSUS:
1910 - 922 Fourteenth St., Black River Township, Lorain, Ohio (as ZISHAURSKIA, Thomas)
ED 92, Sheet 3B, Lines (Series: T624 Roll: 1205 Page: 119 )
1920 - 922 Fourteenth St., Black River Township, Lorain, Ohio (as ZISHAURSKIA, Thomas)
ED 14, Sheet 9A, Lines 28-31
Note - Eva is shown as Thomas' daughter in error. She was his wife. Also, Black River Township is now known as the city of Lorain. Thomas' occupation is shown as a machine operator in a shipyard.

IMMIGRATION:
1893 per 1930 census.

OCCUPATION:
1930 - Cleaning woman in a clothing factory (per 1930 census)

CENSUS:
1930 - 922 Fourteenth St., Lorain, Ohio (ED 47-18, Sheet 14A, Lines 20-21) Living with her daughter, Elizabeth.

1. Alexandria ZIOLKOWSKI b. Abt 1892, Poland.
2. Martha ZIOLKOWSKI b. Abt 1897, ,, Pennsylvania, USA.
3. Alice ZIOLKOWSKI
4. Leona ZIOLKOWSKI
5. 5. Elizabeth Kazmiera ZIOLKOWSKI b. 19 Nov 1906, Natrona, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA; d. 20 Oct 2000.