Tombstone Tuesday: Dr. Jerry Liebross

Joseph Jerome Liebross headstone, Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, New York; Block WC, Section 2, Line 4, Grave 21,  Workmen's Circle. Photo Sept 2008

Here lies

Yonah son of Eliezer

Died 20 Iyar 5708

May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life 

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BELOVED FATHER

AND BROTHER 

DR. JOSEPH J. LIEBROSS

DIED MAY 29, 1948

AGE 52 YEARS

IN OUR HEARTS

YOU LIVE FOREVER

Joseph Jerome Liebross was the seventh child and fourth son of Louis and Bertha Liebross and was born about 1897 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]

Jerry, as he was called, became a dentist. He married Sydelle (aka Sadie) Kramer on 24 November 1927. [3] They had one son, Stanford. 

Sometime after Stanford's birth, Sadie was committed to Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, and lived there the rest of her life. She was born on 5 August 1905  in New York City and died 15 September 1987. [4]

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.
3. Kings County, New York, Certificate and Record of Marriage number 16749 (27 November 1927), Joseph J. Liebross and Sydelle Kramer, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.
4. "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 8 March 2013), Sadie Liebross, 15 September 1987.