Who knows what dreams immigrants carried with them on to ocean-going vessels, ships that spirited them away from the land of their birth, their families, their known world? Certainly they imagined a better life for themselves and their children, born and not yet in being. What did they bring with them? What were they forced to leave behind? Pranciskus Kremenskas from Lithuania was a handsome, curly-haired 33 year old when he brought his pretty 23-year old wife Manki Vaitekunaite Kremenskas to the land of dreams aboard the ship Kroonland. Manki, who became Monica in the U.S., was pregnant with their first child. They had the princely sum of $25 in cash when they arrived at Ellis Island. Their destination was East St, Louis, Illinois, specifically 443 Collenwell Avenue. Though the passenger manifest is hard to read, it looks like their "American" contact in Illinois was a member of Manki's family. It also appears that a brother or cousin of Pranciskus (Fran