Thursday, March 8, 2012

Kossuthville's Former Historian













Mr. and Mrs. Nemeth


When I first started living out here in K-ville we were and still are living on Nemeth St. and at the time I had no idea that a Mr. Calvin Nemeth was the son of Joseph Nemeth and that our Street was named after him (Joseph) .
 Calvin had been living in the block house on the corner of Nemeth and 542 .We knew him as simply Mr. Nemeth and I did not know there was lots of history behind his life until after my husband Royce and I both became involved with the Community .
But Mr. Nemeth had passed away a year or 2 before that, if I had known I was going to be assigned as Histroian for the community I would have paid more attention to what was happening to his estate. His son lived next door and his daughter lived in Lakeland .It was a couple years later that I found out that his daughter Debbie had sent Hungarian History of Kossuthville to the Hungarian Foundation in Plant City .
I asked about it when I met her , she said she could not read it and did not know anyone who could, so she donated it to them. It was all written in Hungarian !! Her Grandfather Joseph wrote in it everyday of his life until he passed away .I would love to get a hold of it in English.
 However there was some history she could share with me that her father kept over the years himself ,and I plan to share some of that, but a little at a time .