Tombstone Tuesday: Meyer and Goldie Kargman, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY*

In last week's tombstone post I documented the grave of Joseph Kargman. Meyer Kargman is also interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association (FLPBA) plot. I do not, however, know how (or if) they are related.

KARGMAN

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Here lies

Meyer Yosef son of Mordechai

Died 24 Nisan 5710

May his soul be bound in eternal life

DEVOTED HUSBAND

AND DEAR FATHER

MEYER

DIED APRIL 11, 1950

AGED 75 YEARS

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Here lies

Goldie daughter of Ephraim

Died 2 Elul 5725

May her soul be bound in eternal life

DEVOTED WIFE

AND DEAR MOTHER

GOLDIE 

DIED AUG. 30, 1965

AGED 86 YEARS

Meyer Kargman landed at Ellis Island on 6 March 1913.[1] He was born and had resided in Labun, Russian Empire prior to immigration to the United States. His family, wife Gosda (Goldie) and daughters Gisia (Gussie) and Ruchla (Rose), joined him in the USA on 21 February 1921.[2] By that time, Meyer had established himself and, like so many Labun immigrants, had a glass store.

Gussie married glazier Joseph Schwartz on 31 January 1925.[3] Their marriage certificate indicates that Goldie Kargman's maiden name had been Bifson. While Joseph was not from Labun, but from Hungary, he and Gussie were also buried in the FLPBA plot. 

Rose married hat-maker Sam Glass on 15 June 1929.[4]  

Meyer and Goldie are interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY: block 89, gate 156N, line 12L, graves 1 and 2.

Notes:

1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 14 December 1910), manifest, S.S. Kleist, Bremen to New York, arriving 6 March 1913, p. 22, line 26, Mier Kargmann; citing National Archives Microfilm Serial T715, Roll 2024.

2. "Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 14 December 1910), manifest, S.S. Manchuria, Danzig to Boston, arriving 21 February 1921, p. 3, lines 4-6, Gosda, Gisia and Ruchla Kargmann; citing National Archives Microfilm Serial T938, Roll 260.

3. Kings County, New York, certificate of marriage no. 6662 (1925), Joseph Schwartz and Gussie Kargman, 31 January 1925, Municipal Archives, New York.

4. "Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents," digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 November 1910); Rose Glass, petition for naturalization no 377118 (1941), Southern District Court of New York; NARA microfilm Series M1972, roll 1316.

*The First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association, a New York City landsmanshaft group for immigrants from the town of Lubin (Yiddish name), also known as Labun, Russian Empire, purchased two burial plots in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY and one in Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY.

Because many of these people constituted my Lubin relatives' friends, acquaintances and neighbors, I have recorded these burials and submitted them to JewishGen where they are online in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry. In posts about burials in these plots, I will provide additional information about those interred.