Majer and Pacas Czechoslovakia eBook
 

Frantiska Majer came to the US in September 1912. We are looking for her Majer Czech family members today. We hope they will email and help write this eBook on Czechoslovakia as it was in 1912 and is today. Her father was Frank Sr and mother was Frances Pacas Majer (m1878).

Take a bright young girl from a Czechoslovakia farm family. Then offer her a paid for missionary trip to Coraopolis Pa USA. Then use the church to find her a McKee's Rocks (outside of Pittsburgh) foster family for support. Then send her to attend the University of Pittsburgh Medical College and finally become a Doctor. This actually happened to 15 year old Frances Majer from 1912 to 1935. She returned home and here are her pictures. Cousin relatives of direct interest: Joseph and Anna Pacas, Jacob Majer, Maximillian Majer, Frank Majer Jr, Joseph Majer, Verona Majer.

Chapter 0 - Introduction
Chapter 1 - hometown  Velke Hosteradky
Chapter 2 - Ship 1912 from home to new foster family
Chapter 3 - Life with foster parents
Chapter 4 - to citizen of US and ship return visit
Chapter 5 - Czech family
Chapter 6 - home pictures Velke Hosteradky return
Chapter 7  - Czech family burial site

introduction

This is the story of how Fran Keitz Waite's mother age 15 yrs born August 19, 1897 came to the USA in Sept 5, 1912 (ships log shows her to be 17 which is not her true age). Later she married Theodore L. Keitz Jr. and began a family with two children Frances and Theodore III . We still have questions, what was the basis for her decision to begin her immigration to the US? Was their a local church in touch with the Penna. Church group. There were older travelers on the boat - missionaries  and identified as such in the ship log. We need more information on this immigration. Was she indentured to the foster family to repay her costs? Did the foster family have to pay the Coraopolis Baptist Church before she came? The Baptist Missionaries on page 393 in the Baptist Book selection Adobe pdf is about the 1899 Bohemia activities.

Frank Sr and Frances Pacas Majer, what did they know about her future - before Frances went to the USA.

Frantiska Lillian Majer was born on 19 AUG 1897 in Velké Hostěrádky, Czechoslovika.
She came to the Coropolis Pa. immigrating on the ship "Rein" which arrived Sept 5, 1912. She came with many others and missionaries from Bohemia, and Velké Hostěrádky. From that time she was adopted into the foster home of Samuel and Mary Crothers and became a citizen as Frances Lillan Crothers in 1930 and she and Sam visited her homeland in 1930-31 She graduated as MD from Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She married Theodore L. Keitz Jr in First Baptist Church, McKees Rocks, Pa on August 28, 1935-6, and she died MAR 10, 1976.

Samuel and Mary Crothers  became foster parents after 1912.

Czech family gathering back home

brother Josef Majer - ran a hardware store

Josef in military gear

Josef and wife in front of hardware store.

Frances Carothers third from top left, Norwood School 8th grade 2 years after arrival, age 17.

Above this maybe the sponsor church 1913 one year after her arrival.
Foster mother Mary Crothers second row from top third from right.

Below Fran thinks may have been nurse staff. But not sure what these groups are.

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Frances mother

Mary looks sickly in these pictures with Sam.