We are looking for information on Lena (Jindra) Hartigan.  She is the youngest child of George and Mary (Krcmarik) Jindra.  Her date of birth is after 1880.  She was probably born in Wisconsin.

She is mentioned in her sister Anna’s obituary in April 1943 as living in Seattle Washington.  Her brother Frank’s obituary in 1964 states that she is deceased.   We do not know what her husband’s name is.

I added the history of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Greenstreet, Cooperstown Township, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.  This little settlement is near Kellnersville, WI and was the first Bohemian Catholic Church in the Manitowoc County.

I created pages for Oscar and Reuben Jindra, both sons of Jiri Peter Jindra, Jr.

I believe this completes the children of Georg and Maria (Lenhardt) Jindra.

Jindra/Meineke Family History Tour
Jindra Christmas, Dec. 29th 2007

written by Michael Jindra

Twenty-four relatives packed into four vehicles for a special prelude to the annual “Jindra Christmas” gathering, this year held at Carol Jindra’s residence in Mishicot. The relatives, descendants of Alvin and Leona Meineke Jindra, visited former farmsteads and homes in the Mishicot and Two Rivers areas where Alvin and Leona and their ancestors lived and worked. Alvin’s grandparents, George and Mary Jindra, Sr. immigrated from Bohemia in 1868 and farmed near Mishicot, while Leona Meineke’s German grandparents settled on farms north of Two Rivers near Hwy 42 in the 1840’s and 50’s. Communicating by two-ways radios, the tour included stops at farms and buildings near Kingsbridge, southwest of Mishicot, where the first generations of Jindras farmed and operated businesses, and also the former cheese factory on Hwy Q just south of Kingsbridge which Alvin and Leona operated after their marriage in 1914, and where children Ethel (Breitwisch) and Al were born. It progressed to the house in Two Rivers where they lived until 1936 and where three more children were born, including Roy, Dan and Grace (Schleis), and the nearby grocery store on 13^th St. (still operating) where Alvin worked during the depression. We then viewed the former Hamilton home site in Two Rivers where Leona worked for a while, and the home where Minnie Meineke moved from the farm and where her children lived after her through the 1990’s. We then proceeded to the former Meineke and Schmidt farms north of Two Rivers. Minnie Meineke was a Schmidt and grew up on the farm on Hillcrest Rd., where extended family picnics were often held. Alvin’s sister Alice (later to become Alice Zell, the wife of the longtime pastor at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Mishicot) taught at a one-room schoolhouse next to the Meineke farm where Leona grew up, and where Alice boarded at the time. Alvin would occasionally come to the Meineke farm to pick up his sister, which is how Alvin and Leona met. A little further north we viewed the farm where Charles Meineke’s father Johan settled in the 19^th century. We ended the tour on the farm across the street from Fox Hills, where Alvin and Leona lived and raised their five children from 1936 to 1958 (when they moved to their new home behind the Lutheran Church in Mishicot, where Leona died in 1959 and Alvin in 1970). Here, the group left the warmth of their vehicles to view the farm buildings and let Al and Grace describe farm life in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Had a heavy snow not fallen the day before, the group could have visited the Mishicot and Two Rivers cemeteries where several generations of ancestors are buried. Instead we retired to the home Roy and Carol Jindra built in 1961, next to the river and very near the northeast corner of what used to be the Jindra farm, and where now more relatives and much food awaited.

Those on the tour included the surviving children of Alvin and Leona, Al Jindra, age 86, of Madison, and his sister Grace Schleis of Mishicot, who both provided commentary on their lives on the farm near Mishicot and in Two Rivers. The youngest participants were Nolan Winter, 6, of Manitowoc, and Nathan Jindra, 8, of Michigan, who would be the great great great grandsons of the first Jindras and Meinekes that settled in the area.

Others participating were:

Bill and Jane Ann (Jindra) Breylinger of Florida

Paul Schleis family of Green Bay

Gordon and Nancy (Schleis) Haak of Elkhorn WI and Andrea Gall

Tom and Ann (Jindra) Winter family of Manitowoc

Scott and Jordon Jindra of Oshkosh

Pat Jindra of Kiel

Vern and Janet (Jindra) Griffin of Madison.

Michael Jindra of Michigan and his son Nathan.

On the tour were two children of Alvin and Leona, six grandchildren, and ten great grandchildren, plus six spouses.

I was busy today researching places and people connected to the Jindra Family.

I added histories for Anna (Jindra) Stoer, Walter Jindra, Norman Jindra, and Hilda Jindra.

I added information on the Wisconsin House (now Washington House), Becker Manufacturing Company, E. J. Vaudreuil Canning, French Settlement School and St. John’s Lutheran in  Two Rivers.

I added the history of George Jindra III and Lydia Ebert.  They were residents of Dickey, North Dakota for most of their lives.

I updated the Zell family history including the additions of histories on Manitowoc Normal School, Rangeline School, Sandy Hill View School, Jambo Creek Church and additional information on St. Peter’s.

I added a page about the ancestors of George Jindra.  It can be found by clicking  on this link:

Jindra Ancestors

Seeking information on Jindra surnames. 

I am seeking information on Adelbert JINDRA b 1858 Mazelov kraj Budejovice immigrated to USA btwn 1870-1888 m Marie Barbara Sral in Cleveland Ohio. USA in 1888. 

Have more information and will share what I have.  Contact me at jindraroots@yahoo.com 

Cherice Jindra