The name of the house where he was raised was “Lilkov”. He survived the form of small pox called “Black Pox” when he was three years old. 552 He emigrated in 1899 127 at the age of 20 to Ely, Minnesota. In 1900 he was a 21 year old single iron miner who lived with his brother John and John's wife Johanna in the First Ward of the city of Ely. 127 In 1907 he and his brothers Anton Matkovich and Martin Matkovich lived at the home of John Tomachich in Ely. He returned to Slovenia to marry Mary Vertin in 1907, and by 1908 they had returned to Virginia, Minnesota where in 1910 he was a miner at the Bessemer mine. On the 30 April 1910 US Census he was a 29 year old iron miner who lived with Mary, 21, at the Lone Jack Location of the Missabe Mountain Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Next door to them lived his brother Martin and wife Theresa.488 In 1912 he was a trammer at the Norman mine and lived at the Commodore Location, Virginia, Minnesota, where he and Mary had his brothers Anton, Frank and Peter as boarders. In 1913 they lived at 121 Poplar Street, Virginia, Minnesota.130 In 1917 he was a miner and they had moved to 120 South 3rd Street, Virginia, Minnesota, where he and then his widow lived the rest of their lives. He died at home at 9:35 AM of a myocardial infarction. He was a drill operator for the Oliver Iron Mining Company. He was a naturalized citizen. He was never in the U. S. Military.

Naturalization papers.

The name of the house she was raised in was “Perceva”.109 She emigrated in 1907 109 following her marriage to Josef. She lived as a widow at 120 South Third Street in Virginia from Joseph’s death in 1953 until her death in 1958. In 1956 she was a stenographer for the St. Louis County Welfare Board and lived at 120 South Third Street in Virginia with her sons Frank and Joseph and her daughter Jean. She died at 8:14 PM at the Virginia Municipal Hospital of carcinoma of the gall bladder.