13 May 1795 The poorest parsonage in GemerNajchudobnejšia fara v Gemeri

In 1795 a new parsonage was built at Kobeliarovo — a plain single-storey classicist house under a shingled roof — and on 13 May of that year Pavol Jozef Šafárik was born in it. His father had taught school around Štítnik for some fifteen years before taking the parish, probably because a parish paid a little better. It did not pay much: biographers call Kobeliarovo one of the poorest parishes in the whole of Gemer. What kept the family fed was his mother Katarína, from a poor gentry family at Hanková, who sowed flax, spun, had cloth woven, ran the smallholding and traded on her own account — linen made at home was what this village produced, and she was good at it.V roku 1795 postavili v Kobeliarove novú faru — jednoduchý prízemný klasicistický dom pod šindľovou strechou — a 13. mája toho roku sa v nej narodil Pavol Jozef Šafárik. Jeho otec predtým asi pätnásť rokov učil po školách v okolí Štítnika a na faru odišiel zrejme preto, že fara niesla o čosi viac. Veľa to však nebolo: životopisci označujú Kobeliarovo za jednu z najchudobnejších fár v celom Gemeri. Rodinu uživila matka Katarína z chudobnej zemianskej rodiny v Hankovej — siala ľan, priadla, dávala si tkať, gazdovala a aj obchodovala. Doma tkané plátno bolo to, čo táto dedina vyrábala, a jej to išlo.