Tombstone Tuesday: Paul Lederman, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York

Paul Lederman was born to immigrant parents, Dave Lederman and Fannie Alterman in Chicago on 12 July 1924.[1] The Ledermans likely moved to New York City in January 1925.[2]

Here lies

Pesach son of David

PAUL

LEDERMAN

ARTIST

JULY 12, 1924

JAN. 21, 1987

BELOVED HUSBAND

LOVING FATHER

AND GRANDFATHER

DEVOTED SON

BROTHER AND VETERAN

FOREVER

IN OUR HEARTS 

Neither of the Paul's parents are from the town associated with the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association cemetery plots: Labun, Ukraine. 

David Lederman appears to have been from Slawatycze (in Yiddish, Slovotitch), 55 miles northeast of Lublin in Poland.[3] According to his naturalization record, David arrived in New York in August 1910. Fannie Alterman arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in July 1912.[4] She was born and raised in Rezekne (Rezhitze in Yiddish), 52 miles NE of Daugavpils (Dvinsk), Latvia.

In 1930, Paul lived with his parents and elder sister,  Elizabeth (Betty Resnick) and his half-sister Ida (from David's first marriage), at 987 Blake Street, Brooklyn.[5] Another half-sister, from David's first marriage, Anna, lived in Chicago.[6] Paul's father was a tailor.

Paul married Yvette Kaby, daughter of David and Mollie Levine Kaby, in about 1924. I have located a marriage record for them in neither New York City nor Maryland. But, in 1942, Paul registered for the military draft in Baltimore, Maryland.[7] He was 18, married to Yvette, living at 4201 Pennington Avenue and working at the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard in Maryland. 

Paul served in the U.S. Army from 4 March 1943 to 27 January 1946.[8]

Paul and Yvette had at least one son.[9]

According to the Social Security Death Index and a U.S. Public Records Index, Paul spend his last years in Jamaica, Queens County, New York.[10]

It is not clear, at this point, why Paul's grave is located within a First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association burial plot. Yvette's parents' graves are also located within this plot. I have not yet completed genealogical analysis of the Kaby family, but, thus far, I have not determined the family's relationship to this group.

Paul Lederman's grave is located in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York, First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot, block 5, gate 567W,line 3L, grave 7.

Notes:
1. Cook County, Illinois, birth certificate no. 29331, Paul Lederman, 12 July 1924; Cook County Clerk, Chicago.
2. David Lederman, naturalization file 122939 (7 May 1929), Eastern District Court of New York, Goldie Lederman deposition of 7 March 1929; images, "New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017); citing NARA, Records of the District Courts of the United States, RG 21.
3. David Lederman, naturalization file 122939 (7 May 1929), Eastern District Court of New York.
4. Border crossing/manifest, S.S. Czar, 19 July 1912 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), p. 2, line 9, Faja Alterman [indexed as Alberman], age 18; images, "U.S., Border Crossing from Canada to U.S., 1825-1960," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017).
5. 1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 514, sheet 7A, dwelling 65, family 142, David and Fannie Lederman family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1541.
6. David Lederman, naturalization file 122939 (7 May 1929), Eastern District Court of New York.
7. Paul Lederman World War II Draft Registration Card
8. "U.S. . Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017); entry for Paul Lederman, SSN 096-18-8444; citing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
9. "Michael R. Lederman," death notices, The Daily Times (Salisbury, MD), 20 February 1999, p. 16, col. 6; images, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 11 June 2017).
10. "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017); entry for Paul Lederman, SSN 096-18-8444, January 1987.
  "U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2017); entry for Paul Lederman.