Ron's maternal great-grandparents

Posnan, Poland  (circa  1900)

Left:  Julianna (Gliniecka) Ossowski  (1834?-1918)

Right:  Wojciech Ossowski  (1850-1926)

Julianna, married three times, acquired the title of "Dame" from her first husband, Jan

Kaczynski, who died in 1870.  Her second husband, Kazimierz Stromowski, died of typhus

fever after only one year of marriage.  In 1872, she married her third husband, Wojciech,

a Polish cavalry officer sixteen or eighteen years her junior who had fought for Prussia

during the Franco/Prussian War of 1870/1871 and earned a medal for heroism.  Wojciech

and Julianna lived on a large estate near Posnan which included a spacious house, twenty

acres of land, an immense barn filled with tools of every type, and a carriage driven by a

coachman and pulled by four horses.  Julianna, renowned as an excellent dancer, also had

a beautiful singing voice.  She and Andrew produced three children: Teofil (1873-1953);

Pawla (1876-1877); and Franciszka (1879-1956).  Pawla, a son, died at only one year old;

Teofil lived and died in Nowe Dobra (near Chelmno), Poland; and Franciszka, who had

emigrated to America, died in the city of San Pedro (near Los Angeles), California, U.S.A.