Joanne,
I do not know if there is any connection between your Hladky line and the Hladky that were/are in Kansas. But this line was listed on rootsweb worldconnect the last I looked. My husband's half-brother is Joey Hladky, his dad Wayne, that was married to a Wilma Allen Hladky(different Wilma, she died in 1996) Waynes dad was Floyd Hladky, who lived around Holton, Ks and from then on it went back a few generations to a different spelling of the name and a different country.