Tombstone Tuesday: Jacob Myers and Bertha Myers

Jacob Myers, son of Zachary Myers (my great grandfather's brother) and Frieda Kargman, was born Jankel Malzman in the Russian Empire. The manifest for his arrival in New York in 1908 indicates that he had been living in and had been born in Volodymyr Volynskyy.[1] However, his naturalization record indicates he was born on 15 November 1890 in Gritsev (8 miles west of his father's town of Labun).[2]

Photo by E. Garber, 7 September 2008,

JM

Here lies

Yakov son of Zacharia

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BELOVED HUSBAND

AND FATHER

JACOB

MYERS

DIED OCT. 3, 1949

AGE 58 YEARS

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LOVED AND CHERISHED BY ALL

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BM

Here lies

Tova daughter of Meier

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DEVOTED WIFE

AND MOTHER

BERTHA

MYERS

DIED JAN. 19, 1954

AGE 62 YEARS

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NONE KNEW THEE

BUT TO LOVE THEE

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Jacob became glazier in New York City and was in business with his first cousin Louis Myers.

In 1911 Jacob married Bertha Goldman, also a Russian immigrant. She was the daughter of Meier Goldman and Anne Chalewska and was born in September 1891.[2][3] 

Jacob and Bertha had four children: Beatrice Myers Hoffman (1913-?); Meyer Myers (1915-1916), Sophie Myers (1918-?), and Frederick Myers (1921 -?).

The Myers are buried in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association landsmanshaft plots at Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York: Block 89, Gate 156N, Line 8R, Grave 1(Jacob) and Grave 2 (Bertha).

 
Notes:
1."New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 July 2009), manifest, Zeeland, Antwerp to New York, arriving 24 March 1908, page 9, Line 7, Jankiel Malzmann, citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 1084.
2. Jacob Myers petition for naturalization no. 93901 (1 January 1921), Eastern District of New York, Records of the District Courts of New York; digital image, Foold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 30 December 2010; citing NARA Record Group 21, Northeast Region, New York City.
3. New York County, New York, certificate and record of marriage no. 29954 (20 December 1911), Jacob Myers and Bertha Goldmanm New York City Municipal Archives, New York.