Marcyanna ( Chyrek ) Guza 1831 - Sep. 5, 1881
You will notice there were no citizenship papers issued to any female in the family. Since they could not vote, perhaps they found it unnecessary. A better explanation I have been told is, when her husband became a citizen, she, being married to a legal citizen, became one also. In these pages you will find Marcyanna, Marcella, Maryanna, (Chyrek) Guza these are the spellings we found. The farm that the land agent located for the Guza family was in Huron County. Jan, Marcyanna. little Frances, John and Leon moved from Chicago in 1876, to the farm. Catherine remained in Chicago, living with her half brother Frank and his family. She was employed at the Palmer House Hotel. She would iron the clothes of the guests that stayed there. The iron she used was heated on the top of a woodburning stove. Care had to be taken not to over heat the iron, or it could scorch the delicate lace on the dresses. When Catherine was about fourteen years old, her mother wrote her, claiming an oxen had broken her foot. Catherine was needed on the farm to help with the chores. This was a plot to arrange a marriage to John Kubacki.		In the 1880 census it shows the Jan Guza family settled in Parisville. John and Catherine (Guza) Kubacbi have a farm of their own close by. They were married August 26,1879. John was nine years her senior. When the fire of 1881 was raging in the Thumb, The men plowed around the Kubacki cabin. Marcella Guza and her six month old grandson Leo Kubacki were put into the cistern under the cabin. But during the fire, she panicked and left the house. She wandered in the heavy smoke across the road into a small stream, on the edge of the Leppek farm. She was found beside a tree stump, cluching the child and her rosary beads.