Jerome — Betty Lorraine SARVER. [Group Sheet]

1. Jerome Stanley KARP
2. Greg KARP
3. Daniel KARP
4. Martin KARP

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• Reference Number: 11291
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occupation: postal worker - mailman
education: high school diploma
SS# 360-20-7476
He was a tyrannical manic-depressive alcoholic that spent his family's money at the racetrack on payday. He would come home drunk and beat his wife to a bloody pulp, and on one occasion through her out a second story window. He grew up speaking Polish, as his parents were Polish immigrants to the Chicago around 1890. Stanley was a Polish Roman Catholic. His three sons remember having to wrestle him to the ground while he was drunk until the police got to their house, so that he would not kill their mother or one of them in one of his drunken rages.

Stanley — Cathrine Adele MARES. Cathrine (daughter of John MARES and Adelaide KUNGER) was born 5 Feb 1906, Chicago, Ill; died 31 Oct 1977, Rolling Meadows, Illinois; was buried Saint Henry Cemetery Chicagocook County Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 11292
• _UID: 230C6355C39B4C7886E7917D45918419F7DC

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Catherine was a sweet lady that became a victim of Karp alcoholic abuse. she lived the last days of her life with her son Jerome Edward and family.

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• Reference Number: 11295
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(Maciej=Polish for Mathias or Matthew)
occupation: farmer and laborer working at a Chicago brickyard
education: He could read and write and learned English living in Chicago, Illinois.
Maciej married Veronica (Brunisova or Risha)also an emmegrant from Poland, at St.Cantius RC Church Chicago, in 1895.
Karp, Maciej married Bojakowicz, Veronica--11-6-1895-St. John Cantius Church--chicago, illAccording to the 1910 Chicago census, Mathias is 40 years old and married fifteen years, he was born in Austria Poland around 1870, and came to United States in (1886 or 1890s)(1892; according to the 1900 Chicago census) (1889; according to the 1910 Chicago census)(1886; according to the 1920 Chicago census)(1886; according to the 1930 Chicago census and first married at age 21)and later became a U.S. citizen.
He learned English and rented a house according to the 1910 Chicago census.
According to family legend, Mathias was the son of a Polish Baron. He fled Poland in order not to be inducted into the Polish army, taking with him family valuables for a new life in the United States. He migrated to the USA in 1886 or 1891, which means he would have been about 16-19 years old. He purchased tracts of land in the Chicago area. Later in life he became an alcoholic, selling off all of his land holdings even trying to sell his wife for money to purchase alcohol.
According to one story relayed by Mathias' son, Stanley Karp, Stanley and his young wife Catherine {Mares) and their young baby came to visit Sophie at her home which according to family folk lore was a farm in Chicago. They were sitting at the kitchen table visiting, when Mathias came in through the front door, falling down drunk. Sophie , Stanley and Catherine saw him and decided to sneak out the back door and hide on top of a haystack in the backyard. They knew that Mathias was in a bad temper and prone to violence. Mathias however, saw a the group hiding on the haystack and proceeded to set the haystack on fire! Fortunately, the group slid down the backside of the haystack and ran for safety.
This is the kind of man that Mathias had become, a raging abusive MANIC-DEPRESSIVE alcholic. Alcoholism and being an abusive MANIC-DEPRESSIVE alcoholic have plagued the Karp family ever since.
Mathias may have married a second wife, Mary, after the death of his first wife, Sophie-Veronica-Risha, on 2/2/1927.
Stanely was one of eight children born to the couple, seven serviving. They were Mary-1896, Andrew-1897(may have been killed by Maciej- a coriner's inquest was conducted by the Cook County Corinor in 1901- Stanley Karp would often call out the name: "Bn-Andrew"--perhapes a childhood memory of his murdered baby brother Andrew), then came Henry-1898, Agnes-1899, Bertha-1900, Walter-1903, Stanley George-1905 and Edward-1906.

Cook County death records:
Two entries similar names and ages;
KARP MATHIAS M/W Y-68 0000353 1941-10-29 ROCK ISLAND ROCK ISLAND - -
KARP MATTHEW M/W Y-72 0021465 1942-07-29 COOK CHICAGO - -

Maciej married Weronika WOJAKIEWICZ 6 Nov 1895, St. John Cantius Church--Chicago, Ill. Weronika was born Abt 1871, Gornica, Poland; died 2 Feb 1927, Chicago, Ill; was buried Saint Adalbert Cemetery Nile IL. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 11296
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Veronica Wojakiewic (various spellings: Bojakowicz , Wojakiewicz, Wojacowiz, Brunisowa Wojakewizt ) Galica, Austria
Veronica Nojakiewiez B:10 Mar 1880 Gornica, Poland D:2 Feb 1927
Name: Veronica Karp
[Veronica Nojakiewiez]
Birth Date: 10 Mar 1880
Birth Place: Gornica, Poland
Death Date: 2 Feb 1927
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 5 Feb 1927 Cemetery Name: St. Adelberts
Death Age: 46
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Female
Father Name: John Nojakiewiez
Father Birth Place: Gornica, Poland
Mother Name: Agala
Mother Birth Place: Gornica, Poland
Spouse Name: Matthew Karp

occupation: housewife; edcation: unknown; Born around 1871 in Austria - Poland.
Weronika came to the United States around 1891(1900 Chicago census)(1890; according to the 1910 Chicago census)(1890; according to the 1920 Chicago census).
Maciej Karp married Veronica Bojakowicz on 11-6-1895 at St. John Cantius Church--Chicago, Ill.
The young family is listed in the 1900 census living in Chicago, Illinois. According to the 1910 census she has been married for fifteen years she bore seven children and only six children surviving. one of her children may have died or murdered by her husband (Mathias).
According to family folklore Sophie return to Poland in her old age, because of her abusive alcoholic husband, Mathias Karp. Returning to Poland is unlikely because she has a death certificate listed in the State archives as dying in Chicago.
Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index 1890-1929
Weronika Wojakiewicz Karp died on 2 Feb 1927 and buried on 3 Feb 1927.(She was only 44-years-old). Three daughters are listed in her obituary;
obit name: Rozanska, Berta (Bertha)
obit name: Ivers, Marjanna (Mary)
obit name: Breitenstein, Agnieszka (Agnes)
After her death, her youngest children (in their teens and early twenties) went to live with their older siblings (in their late twenties and early thirties), as Mathias was an abusive alcoholic.

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John — Adelaide KUNGER. Adelaide was born 29 Nov 1875, Chicago, Ill; died 28 Dec 1929, Chicago, Ill. [Group Sheet]

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