The congregation built itself a new church between 1871 and 1878, and a new parish house in 1878. Pavol Štefánik was the pastor here, and on 21 July 1880 his sixth child was born in that two-year-old parsonage: Milan Rastislav Štefánik. Nine of the family's children grew up in a house that was also the parish office for farms scattered over several kilometres of ridge. These were the decades of Magyarisation, when Hungarian was forced into schools and offices and the Slovak secondary schools were closed, and when people left these hills for America in large numbers. A clever boy from a poor upland parish had to go away to get anywhere, and he did — first to Prague, then to Paris.Zbor si v rokoch 1871 – 1878 postavil nový kostol a v roku 1878 aj novú faru. Farárom tu bol Pavol Štefánik a 21. júla 1880 sa mu v tej dva roky starej fare narodilo šieste dieťa: Milan Rastislav Štefánik. Deväť detí z rodiny vyrástlo v dome, ktorý bol zároveň farským úradom pre usadlosti roztratené po niekoľkých kilometroch chrbtov. Boli to desaťročia maďarizácie, keď sa maďarčina tlačila do škôl a úradov, slovenské gymnáziá zatvárali a ľudia z týchto kopcov húfne odchádzali do Ameriky. Bystrý chlapec z chudobnej kopaničiarskej fary musel odísť, ak chcel niečo dokázať — a odišiel, najprv do Prahy, potom do Paríža.
