Breckinridge County KyArchives Photo Group.....Frank And Tophel Secuskie/Pryzkucki 
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This is a picture is courtesy of Ruby Wise (g-granddaughter of Frank) and Peggy 
Adams Russell (an Allgood cousin).  It is of brothers Frank and Tophel 
Pryzkucki.  They came to America from Warsaw, Poland in the 1870's and ended up 
in Breckinridge County.  Both ran a blacksmith shop and ran into a family feud 
when Frank wanted to Americanize the Pryzkucki name to Secuskie.  The feud 
split the brothers, of which Tophel moved to Louisville and remained there 
until his death, where he is buried at St. Michael's Cemetery in Louisville, 
next to his wife.

According to Rosa Secuskie Clark (Frank and Nannie Allgood Secuskie's daughter)
Frank, on his way home from the blacksmith shop Christmas Eve, 1903 was drunk 
and fell off his horse and into the snow.  It was the next morning before Frank 
was found.  He'd frozen to death.  Frank and Nannie are buried at the Old 
Basham #6 Cemetery just outside of Custer with several of their kids.







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