Jindrich (Henry) Juren was born in Hradiste, Bohemia, on March 20, 1850. The son of a Protestant minister, he studied theology at several universities and became fluent in Czech, English, German, French, and Polish. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1876 as the newly ordained pastor of the Ross Prairie Czech-Moravian Brethren Church. He served locally and traveled by horse and buggy and train to Czech congregations throughout Texas. Also a public schoolteacher for 40 years, he was a revered leader in Ross Prairie and the statewide Czech community. He was buried in the churchyard cemetery in 1921.