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1. Title:   1910 Federal Census Love County, Hickory Twp., OK
2. Title:   1920 Federal Census for Love County, Hickory Twp., OK
3. Title:   1930 Federal Census, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Notes
a. Note:   Nedbalek Family Bible Record: Eva Matylka se narodila 12 ho Cervenec Roku 1904. (Translation: Eva Matilda was born 12th day July year 1904)
  Eva was born in a log cabin near Marietta, Indian Territory. In about 1906 her father purchased a farm , a portion from Charles and Emelie Sykora, (10 acres) and 20 acres for $1 all from the Government sales of allotted land in Love County OK, a portion from Choctaw-Chickasaw Nation, (18.25 acres), Quit Claim Deed from J.S. Mullen for the 18.25 acres this purchase took place to correct the purchase of the aforementioned 18.25 acres. It is on this farm that she fondly remembers growing up. She loved school and was a help to her parents working on the farm. The four-room school she attended did not have high school accreditation so she was unable to complete beyond the 10th grade. At age 21 her parents sent her to Shawnee, Oklahoma, to live with her older sister, Alma and her husband, to attend high school. However, the arguing of Alma and her husband made it difficult for her to study. Having a year and a half left in high school, she left there and went to Oklahoma City for a brief period, living at a Salvation Army residence for one week and for a brief time working for a Gentile family cooking, cleaning, and caring for their children. At this time, she received money from her sister, Lilly for a train ticket to Chicago. Eventually buying the ticket went to Chicago and stayed with her married sister Lilly for a period of time and also with her married sister Carrie. She remembers the gas street lamps and her first morning awakening in Chicago, looking out the window, and thinking how dirty it was.
  During this time she held a variety of jobs, waitress work (which she disliked) and working at an old people's home which provided her a place to live, food, and a small wage. At this home her job was to serve meals for the old people's home administrators' in their dining room. She liked living there, she had free time during the day to herself, tried to enroll in school to learn office skills, typing and shorthand. For some reason she left. Worked for a while at Mars candy factory. She seemed to dabble in many things, holding a variety of jobs, trying to learn a skill, but not really completing anything. On occasion she lived with roommates and on and off again with her sisters. Her brother, Alfred, lived and worked in Chicago for a few years.
  During this time Eva, through Carrie's husband, Charles, met two of his coworkers. The first was a German man, Harry Huseman (sp?) who she was quite fond of and another coworker, Ferris Larson.
  In March of 1927, at the age of 22, she returned to Marietta and stayed on the farm for 9 months. Following the death of her brother, Wesley, in November of 1927 at the age of 23, she returned to Chicago. Her mother told her that Chicago was were she would eventually end up and gave her money for train fare. This time staying on and off again with Carrie, Lilly, and in rooming houses. During this time she worked a clerical job at Continental Insurance and finally working as a telephone operator. She rekindled her relationship with Ferris Larson, they eventually married in 1934.
  It should be known that during her "dating" with Ferris Larson and their frequent visits to the beach of Lake Michigan, Eva (not knowing how to swim) took swimming lessons at the YMCA. I remember how my mother always did the "side stroke" when swimming. This was how she learned to swim at the "Y." Seems Eva always wanted to learn what it took to enjoy life. At the age of 60 she learned to drive and maintained a license till she was 90 years of age. It was her renewal at the age of 91 that she chose to request an identification card, though cataract surgery left her vision near perfect, she felt her physical condition did not merit her acquiring a drivers license. Yes, those that new her were proud this was her decision. Eva died at the age of 91, four months after her 91 birthday.


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