Many descendants of these men still live in the Hawk Point vicinity. One listing of early Mashek residents included William Martinek, John Mashek, Joseph Shilharvey, Frank Tumpoch, Frank Havlik, John Stanek, John Kallash, William Wing, Albert Shramek, Peter Kuda, Frank Jisha, Frank Baker, William Kowazek and Frank Shelker. There followed in 1850 the Frank Martinek family and then many others, among them the Ignatious Knizels with 12 children in 1867. Most of the early settlers came by way of St.Louis or Chicago.
"Details of the original Bohemian migration of Lincoln County are sparse, but among the first families were those of Joseph Shelker, John Sedlack and William Norton. But the picturesque countryside north of Highway 47 still is known as the Bohemian settlement some descendants of the early residents still live there and the Old World quaintness has not been totally lost. "Now only the Catholic cemetery remains to remind the present generation of life there long ago. "The region these first-generation Americans chose later became the location for the village of Mashek which at one time had a church, a store, a post office, a blacksmith shop and a community hall.
"Possibly no more that half a dozen Bohemian families were the original pioneers, but more came during the 1850s and 60s - people with names like Knizel, Shramek, Martinek, Kallash, Kuda and Shilharvey. Rather it has a different style and flavor. "Because a handful of Central European immigrants staked out their futures in the rolling, timbered country northwest of Troy in 1848, Hawk Point has never been your typical Anglo-Saxon-German Midwestern farming town. "The post-office was discontinued in 1905.: ~ General Sceme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, page 61. "It was six miles northeast from Hawk Point and six and one-quarter miles northwest from Troy." ~ The State of Missouri, 1904, Walter Williams, page 429. "Mashek was southeast of Truxton, in Bedford Township." ~ Map of Missouri, 1911, Rand McNally. Location of town: east central in county crossroads of MO-AA & CR-597Ĭounty is eastern border central in state
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