Family:Clemente Vidas and Stanlea Kariolic (1)

Lived at 1405 Dayton St., Chicago, when first came over. Then Irving Avenue and then 6337 N. Clark St. by 1938 and then 6348 N. Greenview by 1950s until Teta moved in the middle 60s to Andersonville neighborhood.

Praputnjak was in Modrua-Fiume County, Croatia, until 1918. It's now Gorski Kotar County.

The 1930 (April 4) census showed them living at 6334 N. Irving Ave. near Devon Ave. Irving on the North Side is now Bell (2234 West), according to the city clerk's office. That would put it just east of Western Ave., quite a bit west for the family, if true. He owned his $18,000 two-flat with apparently Teta's nephew, Andrew, boarding with them. Andrew was 19 at the time and a mechanic in a garage. He came over in 1929, according to the census. Also boarding with them was Alex Ceriac (sp), 65, a widowder and laborer at Lincoln Park. Renting the other untit was a John Bokosky, wife, son, daugher, and mother-in-law.

A Marianne Kruzich says her grandfather, Vincent Kariolic, was from Praputnjak and married Antonia Grubesich. A letter to all five Kariolic's in Praputnjak was sent Feb. 10, 2003. Here is the letter in Croatian:

Dragi gospodine i gospodo Kariolic,

Ovo pismo sam morao dati prevesti, pošto ja ne govorim hrvatski. Ja govorim engleski, a nešto malo i njemacki uz pomoc prijatelja.

Ja pokušavam da pronadem rodbinu moje bake Stanke (Gertrude) Kariolic, koja se udala za moga djeda Klementa (Emila) Vidasa, u crkvi Svetog Josipa u Praputnjaku 23. svibnja 1908 godine, prema informacijama sadašnjeg svecenika Dr. Ivana Šporcica. Oni su se 1912 godine preselili u Cikago - USA, nakon što su dobili sina u Hrvatskoj. Marieta (vjerojatno Marija), sestra Stanke Kariolic, takoder se preselila u Cikago u to vrijeme. Sa Stankom i Klementom je 1930 godine stanovao Andrija Kariolic, iako nisam siguran u kakvoj su rodbinskoj vezi. Gospoda Marijana Kruzic (ili Kružic) ovdje u Americi, takoder pokušava pronaci rodbinu svoga djeda Vinsenta Kariolica iz Praputnjaka, koji je oženio Antoniju Grubešic i došao u Ameriku nakon toga.

Pošto ima samo šest Kariolica u telefonskom imeniku Praputnjaka, pišem vam svima u nadi da se netko sjeca prica o Kariolicima koji su otišli u Ameriku. Brat moga oca je bio u vašem mjestu pred 10 godina i rekao mi je da je pronašao neke ljude koji su se još uvijek sjecali moje porodice. Nadam se da cu za godinu dana doci u posjet vašem mjestu, i želim prvo da pišem mogucim rodacima.

Iskreno,

Greg Stanmar 2401 11th St. Peru, IL 61354 USA gregstanmar@@insightbb.com Telefon 815.223.4052

They lived at 3454 Irving Avenue in the 1920 census. Irving Avenue was just east of Western Avenue.