Thanks Peg for your e-mail about the Walkush / Walkusz surname. I've worked on this line off and on over the years.
My husbands line is Joseph Walkush/ Walkusz who settled in Portage county with his family from his first wife, and with his second wife Antonia Tryba. Joseph' son August is my husbands grt. grandfather. He married Katherine Cychosz. His brother Charles married Katherine sister Frances.
August and family pretty much stayed in and around Portage county, Charles and family moved to Ashland where his in laws were living.
I just recently found both marriages in Poland of Joseph, first to Marianne Kropidlowski/ Kropidlowska and then to Antonia Tryba.
I wonder if Joseph and your John are related in some way ?
Would be interesting to find out.
If you want to contact me directly my e-mail address is
mciesielski@prairienet.comThanks for the help.