Jan Raczkiewicz Died March 8, 1915

Jan Raczkiewicz (my great grandfather) died March 8, 1915 at 5:00 in the morning in the village of Sabaudia. Jan worked as a peasant farmer. He was only 50 years old when he died. The record does not give the cause of death. What was happening in the world around him? World War 1 was happening and “in the summer of 1914 fierce battles raged around Tomaszow Lubelski and a fire broke out there, destroying many houses. In the summer of 1915 the area was conquered by the Austrians and the Germans.” Austria was in the middle of a cholera epidemic. There was an outbreak of typhus that had just started in Russia.. Jan was the son of Antoni and Katarzyna (née Grabek) Raczkiewicz, who were both deceased. He left behind widow Katarzyna, née Kaszucka who was 44 years old at the time. “Marian Skurcz, 50 years old, Christian from Sabaudia, and Walenty Liskiewicz, 59 years old, townsman from Tomaszów, came and declared” the event to the officials. Their oldest child Jan, had left for the United States five years before and Anthony (my grandfather) and Joseph had left three years earlier. Jan had just been shot in front of his house a month before this in Grand Rapids, Michigan. . I wonder how and when the three brothers heard that their father had died. The six remaining children were between nine and 20 years old. The youngest child, Boleslaw, would have been nine years old (he is the grandfather of Tomasz and Jacek Rączkiewicz.) Their second youngest child Paulina would have been 14 years old (she is the grandmother of Andrzej Dubiel.) His wife Katarzyna lived another 29 years but did not remarry. As far as I can tell so far, Katarzyna had no living siblings. So far, I have only found one sibling of Jan and she was deceased by this time. But Katarzyna and her husband had a lot of cousins. This record was found and translated by Andrzej Dubiel 1/24/2021 https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol7_00237b.html