19 February 2013

Tombstone Tuesday: Sidney Liebross

DEAR SON
Here lies
Asher Zelig son of Eliezer
Died  3 Av 5692
SIDNEY
LIEBROSS 
DIED
AUG 5, 1932
AGE 40 YRS 
MY BELOVED
HUSBAND 

Sidney Liebross, the fourth child and second son of Louis and Bertha Liebross, was born 2 February 1890 in Radautz, Austrian Empire (today Radauti, Romania) and came to the United States in 1898 on the Britannic from Liverpool with his mother and seven brothers and sisters. [1] His father had emigrated six months earlier. [2]

He is buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, New York in the Workmen's Circle plot, Block WC, Section D, Line 18, Grave 4.  

Sidney was a men's hat salesman. In about 1926, Sidney married May Weinberg.[3They had no children.

Sidney died young after short illness. His death certificate reports a lung abscess.[4] After Sidney died, May married Leonard Safron. She died in 1974.[5]

Notes:
1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 13 May 2009), manifest, Britannic, Liverpool to New York, arriving 1 July 1898, Libros, citing National Archives Microfilm SerialT715; Microfilm Roll: 25; Lines: 20-28; Page Number: 2.
2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 5 September 2009), manifest, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Bremen to New York, arriving 23 December 1897, Leiser Lebros, citing National Archives Microfilm Roll: 11; Line: 4; Page Number: 107.
3. I have not found a marriage certificate for May and Sidney. However, the 1930 U.S. Census indicates that they'd married about four years earlier. The 1925 New York State Census shows Sidney still living with his parents.
1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, Population Schedules, Brooklyn, Enumeration District 24-1406, sheet 1B, family 19 (Irving Greenspan, brother-in-law), Sidney Liebross, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 July 2008).
1925 New York State Census, Kings County, New York, Enumeration of Inhabitants, Brooklyn, Enumeration District 11, Assembly District 5, page 4, House Number 291 Stuyvesant, Sidney Liebross, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 January 2013).
4. New York City Department of Health, Standard Certificate of Death 16139 (5 August 1932), Boroughof Brooklyn, Sidney Liebross; New York City Municipal Archives, New York.
5. "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKR4-SJ8 : accessed 19 Feb 2013), May Safron, October 1974; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

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