Tombstone Tuesday: Samuel and Ida Stedman, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York

I just love this stuff! Often while I am researching one person or couple whose graves are in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots, I find their (previously unknown to me) relatives. Sometimes, as in the case of today's subjects, I find a child who I previously could not locate. Such is the case with Ida Stedman.

STEDMAN

Here lies

Yisrael son of Shlomo Leib

SAMUEL

JAN. 10, 1906

DEC. 7, 1976

BELOVED [...]

Here lies

Chaya Sarah daughter of Yoel

IDA

JULY 4, 1907

SEPT. 10, 1976

Srul Stutman arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on 15 February 1921 with his widowed mother Perla and his brothers Shajka and Lejser.[1] They reported that they had all been born in Labun and has been living in "Palana" (i.e., Polonne) before emigration. 

In 1925, mother Pauline, Sam, Sol, and Louis lived at 236 Madison Street in Manhattan with lodger Samuel Strovsky.[2] Sam "Stateman" was 18 and working as a dress shipper.

Some time before November of that year, when he applied to start the citizenship process, Sam started working as a glazier.[3] He became a citizen on 23 August 1928.

Sam and Ida Schwartz married in Manhattan on 31 August 1929.[4] April 1930 found the newly-weds at 897 Bryant Street in the Bronx.[5] In 1940, they were still in the Bronx, but at 1048 Boynton Avenue.[6] They had two sons: Sheldon and Howard. Sheldon, born on 12 August 1930, passed away on 14 August 2005. His grave is in this same plot at Beth Moses Cemetery.

Sam and Ida's marriage record and Sheldon's Social Security Applications and Claims Index record (i.e. information from processing Social Security claims), indicates that Ida's maiden name had been Schwartz.[7] Her marriage certificate indicates that her father was Sam and her mother Eva Gellman.

Ida's parents names and the information from her gravestone (her father's Hebrew name was Yoel) link her to the Samuel and Eva Kelman Schwartz, members of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association who rest in Montefiore Cemetery. Ida Schwartz's age, as shown in the Schwartz family's 1925 New York State Census enumeration, is within a year or so of Ida Stedman's age, as reported on her gravestone.[8] In addition, Ida is not with the Schwartz family in the 1930 census - as would be expected since Ida and Sam Stedman married in 1929.[9]

Sam and Ida Stedman's graves are located in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery, Maccabee Road, Pinelawn, New York.

Notes:
1. Manifest, S.S. Finland, 21 February 1921, list 24, line 6, Srul Stutman, age 14; images, "Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 April 2017).
2. 1925 New York State Census, New York County, New York, enumeration of inhabitants, Manhattan, assembly district 1, election district 7, p. 25, Sam Stateman; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 April 2017); citing New York State Archives, Albany.
3. Sam Stedman declaration of intention (1925) naturalization file no. 127866, Southern District of New York; images, "New York, Naturalization Records, 1882-1944," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 24 April 2017).
4. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 21106 (1929), Samuel Stedman and Ida Schwartz, 31 August 1929; Municipal Archives, New York City.
5. 1939 U.S. Census, Bronx County, New York, population schedule, Bronx, enumeration district 3-368, sheet 24A, dwelling 463, family 463, Sam and Ida Stedman; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 April 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1475.
6. 1940 U.S. Census. Bronx Co., NY, pop. sched., Bronx, E.D. 3-971, p. 11B, household 216, Sam and Ida Stedman family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 April 2017); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2485.
7. "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 April 2017); entry for Sheldon Leonard Stedman, no. 107-22-1683.
8. 1925 New York State Census, New York County, New York, enumeration of inhabitants, Manhattan, assembly district 12, election district 5, Ida Schwartz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed  21 April 2015); New York State Archives, Albany.
9. 1930 U.S. Census, New York Co., NY, pop. sched., Manhattan, E.D. 31-580B, sheet 28A, family 504, Samuel and Eva Schwartz family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 April 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1651.