Tombstone Tuesday: Jacob and Dora Alperin

Jacob Alperin and Dora Waxenberg Myers were married on 12 April 1913 after Dora's first marriage to Louis Myers ended in divorce.[1] Both Jacob Alperin and Louis Myers were glaziers from the same European community: Lubin (aka Labun, Russuan Empire and Yurovshchina, Ukraine).

Photo By Emily Garber, 7 September 2008

 

ALPERIN

Here lies

Yakov son of Yisrael

BELOVED HUSBAND

FATHER

GRANDFATHER

JACOB

DIED MAY 12, 1960

AGE 72 YEARS

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Here lies

Devorah daughter of Yakov

BELOVED WIFE

MOTHER

GRANDMOTHER

DORA

DIED MAY 12, 1967

AGE 80 YEARS 

Jacobs parents were Yisrael Alperin and Sadie Sporin. Dora's were Jacob Waxenberg and Fanny Echture (at least those are the names written on Jacob and Dora's marriage certificate). 

Dora had one child, Bernard Myers (4 May 1908 - 28 February 1993), with Louis Myers. With Jacob, she had Irving (22 January 1914), Seymour (26 December 1915) and Selma (ca. 1921 - 9 February 1940). 

Jacob and Dora are buried in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot at Montefiore Cemetery, Block 89, Gate 156N, Line 6L, Graves 4 and 5. 

Notes:

1. New York County, New York, Certificate and Record of Marriage no. 9282 (12 April 1913), Jacob Alperin and Dora Myers, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.