1927 - 1940

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• Suffix	[child]
  Birth	11 Jan 1927	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Jun 1940	Cuyahoga Hts., Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Person ID	I9358	Barbarowa Neighborhood
  Last Modified	07 Oct 2007 02:01:29
  Father	James ZIELINSKI, (Zeilinski)
  Mother	Martha KOLECKI, b. 9 Jun 1908, Berea, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Family ID	F2668	Group Sheet

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• Notes

  ~CORRESPONDENCE: genealogygal2@juno.com (Laura Hine) Ok, my husband just got home and he asked around today at work and no one heard of Sunfish Pond, but they all know Sonny's Pond. When we really got to talking about this and I had the name from you, Mark called his Uncle, who, like I said, was born in 1930. He remembered this right away and said he remembers it was when he was about 10 years old. Mark's Uncle Lee (last name Angiocchi) was standing up at the top of the hill (standing on E. 72nd and Marcelline - Marcelline being one street north of Bletch Ct. that I mentioned previously) when the police brought the body of this boy up the hill. On this hill, there were what my husband called the "Red Steps". These steps were there for the men to walk down the hill to go to the brickyards. The brickyards were actually located on Warner Rd. Uncle Lee remembers that the police had to take turns carrying the boy up the hill. Bill Bauer was the Police Chief at the time, and Uncle Lee remembers this because he knew that Bill Bauer couldn't help carry the boy up because he was very out of shape. Uncle Lee said that this pond was always known as Sonny's as far as he can remember. This is what the Cuyahoga Heights kids called it, but he said that perhaps the Goosetown kids (those up on War would fall into that category) may have called it Sunfish Pond. He said that there were fish in that pond, bluegills and sunfish! It was the only pond of any appreciable size when he was a kid. Uncle Lee said that the police found an old hot water tank in the pond. They suspect that he might have hit his head on it while diving in. He was down there with friends and he dove in and the friends didn't see him for a while. Uncle Lee wasn't actually at the pond when the accident took place, he just remembers them bringing up the body and hearing what everyone thought happened. He didn't remember the name when Mark mentioned that it was James Zielinski, and neither did his wife. His wife, Connie (nee Kaliszewski), lived up on Deveny. ...... My husband said that his grandma and mom told him to stay out of that valley - that there was quicksand, bums and cooties down there. Being a boy, of course he wanted to check it out and did and got in trouble often for it. My husband is going to do a little checking for you - there's a woman in the village that is the daughter of a retired Police Chief, and he will see what she might know. Also, he'll find out if there are still Police Reports from back then. If I were you and you wish to know more, you might want to get the Coroner's report. I'll be in touch when I hear anything else. ...... Oh, one last thing. Mark said that there were a few ponds down in that valley. One was down below Hillside Party Center, then further south, there was Sonny's as we have talked about, and further south than that, kinda butting up to Bacci park today was another one. But, Sonny's was the largest. DEATH: Accidental drowning at Sunfish Pond, Cuyahoga Hts., Ohio. (This pond was probably what was later referred to as "Sonny's Pond" down the hill from Bletch Ct. and E.72nd Place. --thanks to Laura Hine for this info) BURIAL: Calvery Cemetery, Miles Rd., Cleveland, Ohio