Tombstone Tuesday: Harry and Anna Charny Rubin, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY

The Abraham and Chasi Charny family from Labun (aka Lubin), which I've been documenting during the last few weeks included not only their sons, Nathan and Louis, but also their daughter Anna and her husband Harry Rubin. 

Here lies

Tsvi Arye son of Ze-eiv

Died 15 Tishri 5709

May his soul be bound in everlasting life

HARRY

RAVRABEY

DIED OCT. 15, 1948

AGE 51 YEARS 

HUSBAND - FATHER

Harry, a butcher, and Anna arrived in New York on 4 September 1921 as Hershko and Henia Rawreba.[1] They left behind Hershko's brother David Rawreba in Lubin and planned to go to Henia's father A. Czarny in Chicago. Hershko, however, landed in the hospital at Ellis Island and, consequently, Henia was detained for 10 days before they could resume their journey to Chicago.

Here lies

Our beloved mother

She opens her arms to the poor

And extends her hand [spreads her palm] to the needy

Khana Rakhel

daughter of Avraham Yosef haCohen

Died eve of the Holy Sabbath 24 Kislev 5740

May her soul be bound in eternal life

ANNA RUBIN

BELOVED MOTHER

AND GRANDMOTHER

DEC. 14, 1979 [2]

Once in the United States, the couple changed their surname to Rubin. Their first two children, Ruth (born about 1921) and Sidney (24 March 1924-4 April 1993) were born in Chicago. Lillian, born in 1927, was a native New Yorker.[3] The family settled in Brooklyn and Harry was a butcher in his own retail store.

Harry died young. His daughter Ruth was the informant on his death certificate and stated that Harry's father's name was Wellvel and his mother's Riva.[4] Harry's gravestone identifies his father as Ze-eiv. Ze-eiv is the Hebrew equivalent of the Yiddish name Velvel (Wolf).

Anna Rubin died on the first night of Chanukah (a Friday).

They are buried in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY. They are both in block 5, gate 567W. Anna is in line 5R, grave 1 and Harry is in line 1R, grave 7.

Notes:
1. "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 July 2013), manifest, S.S. Zeeland, Antwerp to New York, arriving September 1921, p. 20, Hershko and Henia Rawreba; citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 3018.
2. Special thanks to participants on Tracing the Tribe FaceBook page: Anne Budlender, Elan Caspi, and Anat Rosenbaum. They generously shared their understandings of the meaning of Anna Rubin's gravestone inscription. Final choices (and mistakes) are mine.
3. 1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-323, sheet 21A, dwelling 100, family 288, Harry and Anna Rubin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 December 2010); NARA microfilm publication T 626, roll 1503.
4. Kings County, New York, death certificate no. 20631 (1948), Harry Rubin, 18 October 1948; New York City Municipal Archives.