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Note: The spelling of the name when Cyrill came to the U.S. was Mazacek with an accent mark over the letter 'c'. Cyrill changed the spelling so that the letters 'ch' replaced the accent marked letter 'c'. Pronunciation was Ma za shek that was later changed by Dale to Maz a chek.
Cyrill Mazachek was naturalized as a U.S. citizen on 6 December 1913 at McIntosh, South Dakota. Certificate # 359420 recorded in Volume A, Page 59, Sub volume 12.137, page 20. Was a subject of Austria. Bohemia was part of the Austrian Empire before Czechoslovakia was formed from Bohemia, Monrovia and Slovakia. Petitioned for citizenship.
Cyril was born in Babice, (house number 26), Rimskokatolicky parish, office of Rosice, Moravia, Austrian Hungarian Empire.
Cyril left Bremen, Germany on September 24, 1903 on the SS Brandenburg. He arrived in Baltimore, MD. on October 8, 1903. He is listed on the immigration records as Ciryl Mazacck.
The following was dictated to his daughter Agnes: "I was born July 26, 1889 in the city of Babicie, Czechoslovakia, about 15 minutes from Roseca. I went to work in the coal mine when I was fourteen years old cleaning the lamps as my first job. I did that for two years and then went under ground with another fellow and shoveled coal from the mine. In October 1903, at the age of 16, I came to America. My father gave me the money for the journey -- five other boys and I came over together. We spent ten days in Germany before leaving the country. After we landed in New York we went to the train depot. None of us could speak English and this language to us sounded strange and like a flock of geese. We met a fellow who could talk Bohemian and we told him we were hungry so he took us to a market and bought us some food. I took the train to Omaha and the first stop was Chicago where I had to transfer to one to Omaha, Nebraska. I went to my sisters Victoria Valla who had come over here with her husband in June. I got a job in a packing plant and I lived with my sister and paid here $3.50 a week room and board as I was earning $1.75 a day for a ten hour day. My lunch would be sausage and bread that cost me five cents. I met grandma at church. We use to go to dances which cost 25 cents for me and ladies got in free. We could buy a glass of beer at the dance hall for five cents, but if we went across the street we could get a big bottle for ten cents. We got married October 29, 1907. In 1918 I saw a notice in the paper on how to send a package of things to my parents. I shipped a trunk of clothing, shoes, dress material, etc. to my mother and overalls, shirt, cap, shoes and socks to my father. He had broken his hip and one leg was shorter so I sent leather so he could make lifts for the heels of his shoe. It did not cost me anything to send it but it took three months for it to get there. In 1926 I sent my mother five pounds of coffee and she mixed it with chickory to make it go further. I went to see her for the last time from Thanksgiving 1926 and came home in March 1927."
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