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location, and the Sirokman family is also listed in additional directories as having lived in this house. John Sirokman was a coal miner, as were most of his sons. John and Nancy Sirokman had at least eight children, of whom the following are known for sure: John, born 1887; Maggie, born 1891; George, born 1893; Joseph, born 1894; Helen, born 1897; James Wilbur, born 1899; Charles, born 1900; and Albert, born 1904. Son Charles Sirokman served in World War I, with four months of his service spent with an artillery unit in France. According to his obituary, he had been moved up to the front line trenches when the armistice was declared. At the time of the 1920 census, the residents of 556 Lincoln were John and Nancy Sirokman and their sons Charles, Albert, and James Wilbur. The next listing in the census records is for their daughter, Helen, and her husband, Robert Woody, who may have been renting on the same property but were categorized as making up an independent household. John Sirokman, the father, then died in 1921. At the time of the 1930 federal census, World War I veteran Charles Sirokman was living at 556 Lincoln with his mother, Nancy, and his brothers, Albert and James Wilbur. In 1933, Charles died unexpectedly in the house of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 34. (It may be worth noting that it would be the rare historic house in Louisville in which at least one person hasn't died.) His obituary stated that "his sudden death was a shock to the community." At the time of the 1940 census, only Nancy Sirokman and her son, Joe, age 44, were living in the house at 556 Lincoln. Nancy died in 1946 and the Sirokman family heirs sold the house in 1952. The following photo of the house and a ground layout sketch are from the Boulder County Assessor card that is dated 1948: