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Resource Number: 5BL8024
<br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508425006
<br />Following the death of Minerva Nevatt Brass, Herman Brass in 1912 conveyed the property at 809 Pine to Joseph
<br />Eberl, who was already the owner and resident of 817 Pine since around 1895. In this way, the properties began to
<br />have identical ownership. During the period of 1912 to 1924, it appears that the Eberl family rented out the house at
<br />809 Pine. In 1916, Ernest Cook, an electrician, was residing at 329 Pine, which would be today's 809 Pine. In 1918,
<br />the residents of 329 are shown to be Ory and Minnie Fishback; he was a conductor for C & S Railway.
<br />809 Pine was typically referred to as 329 Pine in the older directories, except that in the 1930s, it was referred to as
<br />333 Pine before the addresses changed and it became known as 809 Pine.
<br />Joseph and Johanna Eberl were both from Austria, Joseph having been born in about 1857 and Johanna in about
<br />1853. They arrived in the United States in 1880. The 1885 Colorado state census shows them living in Boulder
<br />County, although it is unclear whether they were yet in Louisville. They appear in the 1892 residential directory for
<br />Louisville. The 1900 census shows them listed on the same page as others in the vicinity, as noted above, and it is
<br />strongly believed that they were living at 817 Pine. The 1904 directory has them at "Lafarge & Pine," which loosely
<br />describes the location of 809 Pine. The 1910 census specifically indicates that they were living on Pine, and their
<br />names appear near the names of John and Emma Barker, who lived at 801 Pine (5BL8023).
<br />Joseph Eberl worked as a coal miner and served as a town trustee beginning in 1896. The Eberls had children
<br />Frank, Anna, Joseph, Gertrude, and Harold. Joseph died in 1917 and Johanna died in 1924.
<br />In 1924, following the death of Johanna, the Eberls' daughter, Gertrude Hill, conveyed the properties at both 809 and
<br />817 Pine to George Sirokman Jr. and Mildred Green Sirokman. On the same day, George Jr. and Mildred transferred
<br />ownership of 817 Pine to George's sister and her husband, Rose and James Gilmour, while maintaining ownership of
<br />809 Pine.
<br />George Sirokman Jr. was born in Louisville in 1896. He served in World War I and became the first commander of
<br />the American Legion Post in Louisville. He worked as a mine foreman and died in 1973. Mildred Green Sirokman
<br />was born in 1904, grew up in Superior, and died in 1995. The 1930 census records show George Jr. and Mildred as
<br />living in this exact location with their children, Elizabeth and William. George Sirokman Jr. worked as a "lamptender"
<br />in a coal mine. Property records show that six years after purchasing the property, George Jr. and Mildred in 1930
<br />conveyed 809 Pine to George's parents, George and Mary Sirokman.
<br />George Sirokman was born in 1861 and Mary in 1865. George Sr. came to Colorado from Zaluzice, Slovakia in 1883
<br />at the age of 18 and initially worked as a coal miner in Erie. According to a Sirokman family history, he sent for Mary
<br />Protc, a girl from his village, and they married in Globeville in 1891. They came to Louisville by 1892. The family is
<br />mentioned in a booklet, "History of Czechs and Slovaks in the State of Colorado 1876-1976" by Andrew Kutes, with
<br />Louisville prominently featured in the booklet as a community that attracted a number of Slovak families. In fact,
<br />according to the booklet, Slovak immigrants in Louisville organized a Slovak benefit society in 1896.
<br />George Sr.'s brother, John Sirokman, and sister, Mary Sirokman Petrun, also emigrated to Louisville from Slovakia
<br />and settled there. Other Sirokmans, who were likely related to George, came to Louisville as well. George and
<br />Mary's children were Mary Sirokman Kasenga, Ann Sirokman Kityk, George Sirokman Jr., Rose Sirokman Gilmour
<br />Michel, Veronica Sirokman Faber, and Michael Sirokman. According to the family history, George Sr. worked in coal
<br />mines in Louisville, and he and Mary also raised fruit and vegetables on a ten acre farm at the southwest corner of
<br />Highway 42 and South Boulder Road. Upon their retirement, they moved to 809 Pine, where their son George Jr. had
<br />been living, and where their daughter, Rose, already lived next door at 817 Pine.
<br />George Sirokman Sr. died in 1943. Mary continued to live at 809 Pine, sharing ownership with her daughter, Mary
<br />Sirokman Kasenga, who lived with her own family at 920 Lincoln Ave. (5BL8521) in Louisville. In 1957, they sold 809
<br />Pine to Albert and Rita Escobedo. Mary Sirokman died in 1961. Rita Escobedo sold 809 Pine in 2008 following fifty-
<br />one years of ownership by the Escobedo family.
<br />Members of the Sirokman family donated numerous family items to the Louisville Historical Museum. The items
<br />include artifacts relating to George Jr.'s World War I service and also include many household items and mining
<br />items that belonged to George and Mary. A small coal stove that was donated was described as having been used in
<br />a shed behind their house, probably for heating water to wash clothes and for the men in the family to use to wash up
<br />after work in the mines.
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