Ewa (Wiśniewska) Kurkiewicz died on August 10, 1889

at the age of 80. One witness reporting her death was her 38 year old son Ignacy Kurkiewicz. Ignacy was the grandfather of Mike Liszewski and his sisters (my newfound 3rd cousins 1x removed.) The other witness was Walenty Lisikiewicz, age 40. Ewa’s parents were Błażej Wiśniewski and Agnieszka nee Szcześniaka. Ewa was the oldest child born to Błażej and Agnieszka. Her father worked as a potter and later as a gravedigger. Her mother died when she was 14 years old and her father was engaged to one woman and then married another woman when Ewa was about 15 years old. Ewa first married Wincenty Rachanski, a shoemaker, when she was 21 years old and they lived in Krynice. Wincenty and their son Felix died the following year. Ewa returned to Tomaszow and six years later married Jozef Kurkiewicz, a shoemaker. She had five children with Jozef (Paulina--my 2x great grandmother, Andrzej, Jakub, Franciszka, Ignatius) Ewa’s husband Jozef Kurkiewicz (my 3rd great grandfather) died 15 years before Ewa.