DISCUSSION: Anton was born in Slawno, this is our family information. Someone changed the Slawno location from Wielkopolskie to Pomorskie. This Pomorskie location is the well-known Slawno near the Baltic. There are at least five "Slawnos" in Poland. Please take the trouble to do actual research before making changes. If the Find-A-Grave automated locator "only" suggests a Slawno in Pomorskie, that does not prove that there is only one Slawno in Poland.

Here is the reasoning for the given location, Wielkopolski. Our immigrant family members recorded on various documents, such as censuses, naturalization papers, or death certificates, that at the time the family left their homeland it was then a Prussian province known as Province Posen. Today, it may be called Poznan (the area) almost interchangeably.The settlement of Posen within, is shown on any map of Poland, it lies about midway between Berlin and Warsaw. Gniezno is located perhaps 50 km to the East-North-East of Posen and this is the location of the Catholic diocese where the church records (including from Slawno) are kept. The Jozwiak family has church records THERE at Gniezno, going back for generations, of marriages and baptisms and so on. Groups of family researchers have in the past visited this Diocese and used these records. Their results have been given in a book called "The Texas Jozwiaks." You can see images of these records for yourself, if you use your computer to search for "The Poznan Project."

OUR Slawno is located perhaps 15 km to the West-North-West of Gniezno. Slawno itself is a small village, in the administrative district of Gmina Kiszkowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolski), in west-central Poland. The village has a population of about 435. Slawno itself is too small to be shown by the Find A Grave automated locator, so to avoid further distrust, we shall have to settle for "Gniezno." But, Anton was born in the little place nearby called Slawno. You can find it on a good map.
Comments by Tim Joswiak, Anton's grandson, on 26 Jan 2018.

BIO:
Anton Jozwiak was born in what is today called Slawno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. The church records are held at Gniezno. At the time of his birth this area was known as Province Posen, in Prussia. He was the second child of Michal and Jozefa (Rolirado) Jozwiak. Variations of her maiden name include Rolirad and Roliradow. This family emigrated to America and made their way through the Port of Galveston ca. 1880. The exact immigration papers for that period are said to be lost. The family may have arrived at a larger American port, and with a second trip, made their way to Galveston by steamer.

Anton married Sophie Zientek in Texas on 22 Nov 1896. They had 14 children, 10 of whom survived to adulthood. The surviving children's names were: Michael J; Alexander C; William B; Paul Peter; Frank T; Annie; Victor Daniel; Odelia Bernice "Tillie"; Burney Lee; Bennie F.

Anton was a successful farmer, who downsized to a smaller farm on Mill Creek Road in 1935, when the children grew older. Anton's family were members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Five of the brothers spelled their last name with the letter "s" instead of a "z." See links below.