July–August 1831 · 1848 Cholera, rumour and the end of serfdomCholera, chýry a koniec poddanstva

In the summer of 1831 cholera came up the Tisza and the authorities disinfected wells and streams with chlorinated lime. Villagers who could not read were told the lords were poisoning them to take their land, and in July and August four eastern counties rose, Zemplín among them: more than 150 villages, some forty thousand people, manor houses looted and officials killed. The army broke the revolt within weeks and by 8 November 1831 courts martial had executed 119 people and sentenced around four thousand to flogging or prison. Serfdom itself was abolished only by the revolution of 1848 — which is when the ancestors of most people in this village stopped legally belonging to somebody.V lete 1831 prišla po Tise cholera a úrady dezinfikovali studne a potoky chlórovým vápnom. Dedinčanom, ktorí nevedeli čítať, nahovorili, že páni ich chcú otráviť a vziať im pôdu, a v júli a auguste sa vzbúrili štyri východné stolice, Zemplínska medzi nimi: vyše 150 dedín, asi štyridsaťtisíc ľudí, vyplienené kaštiele a zabití úradníci. Vojsko povstanie za pár týždňov zlomilo a do 8. novembra 1831 stanné súdy popravili 119 ľudí a asi štyri tisícky odsúdili na palice alebo väzenie. Poddanstvo zrušila až revolúcia roku 1848 — a vtedy predkovia väčšiny ľudí z tejto obce prestali právne niekomu patriť.