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Wedding announcement declaring that Anna Karel, daughter of Václav and Anna Karel, married Emil Kozel on April 21, 1903.

Anna Karel's obituary. She died at the home of her daughter on April 7, 1925 at the age of 81.

Patent deed confirming that Václav Karel had done everything necessary to take legal possession of 160 acres of land in Nebraska.

Baptismal certificate of Anna Kodým and her father. According to this certificate, Anna Kodým was born in 1843 and her father Mr. Kodým in 1818.

Joseph F. Karel and Annie Karel's mortgage document. Joseph F. Karel and his wife Annie Karel executed their mortgage unto The Prudential Insurance Company of America, of Newark, New Jersey in 1922.

An obituary describing sudden and unexpected death of James Karel, Václav Karel's son. James Karel died at this home on January 1, 1918 at the age of 33.

Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…

Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…

This questionnaire was sent to Václav Karel in January 2, 1915 by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions from Washington D.C. After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic procedures to provide reliable pension…

Václav Karel's application for U.S. citizenship. He renounced all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty, and particularly to Franz Joseph I of Austria.
The certificate also describes Václav's current…