Attached to this post is an essay? memo? written by Uncle Jack Pastorek in 1998. We were corresponding then about John Pastorek’s grave in St. Roch and I told him I was doing some research at the library looking for things about John. Shortly later, he sent me this in an email. I don’t have the original file anymore but fortunately I printed a copy and recently scanned it.
John (Jan) Pastorek was the original Pastorek who emigrated from the town of Velke Rovne in Slovakia to New Orleans in 1881.