Tombstone Tuesday: Celia Liebross

SISTER

CL

Here lies

Tsiril daughter of Leizer haLevi

Died 23 Kisleiv 5707

BELOVED SISTER

CELIA

LIEBROSS

DIED DEC 16,

1946

_________

HER SACRIFICING NATURE

AND GOODNES OF HEART

WILL LIVE FOREVER     

Celia Liebross was the sixth child and third daughter of Louis and Bertha Liebross and was born about 1894 in Radautz, Austrian Empire (today Radauti, Romania) and came to the United States in 1898 on the Britannic from Liverpool with her mother and seven brothers and sisters. [1] Her father had emigrated six months earlier. [2]

Celia never married and had no children.

She is buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, New York in the Workmen's Circle plot, Block WC, Section 3, Line 4, Grave 25.

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 Serial: T715; 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.