After Štefan, Sr. left for America, Paulína and Štefanko lived with Paulína’s parents – the Sedláčik family in Drahovce. During part of this time Paulína was a field worker at the Bishop’s Farm in Hodonín – located about 63 kilometers (39 miles) west of Drahovce.*
Steve told a story about his mother leaving him with his grandparents when he was about five years old. She had to travel to the Bishop’s Farm to work and would have to stay there for an extended period of time. He said that he dressed in his best clothes and was waiting at the cottage door so that he could go with her, but she had to leave him crying at the gate of his grandparent’s cottage as she went off to work. He never saw her again. She contracted influenza and died at the Bishop’s Farm near the end of World War I. He said that her body was buried in Hodonín rather than being returned to Drahovce.
*The map shows Hodonín in the upper left corner. Drahovce is in the lower right corner just below the city of Piešt'any.
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