Tombstone Tuesday: Israel Myers & Eva Weinstein Myers

Israel Myers was Jacob Myers' elder brother and the son of Zachary Myers and Frieda Kargman.[1] He and his wife Eva are buried in Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York  in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots: Block 89, Gate 156N, Line 6R, graves 5 and 4.

Photo by E. Garber, 7 September 2008

MYERS

Here lies

ISRAEL

1886-1940

DIED MAY 20, 1940

Yisrael Moshe son of Zakharia

Died

12 Iyar 5700

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Here lies

EVA

1894-1946

DIED JANUARY 1, 1946

Chava daughter of Rabbi Shoal

Died

21 Teiveit 5706

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Israel was born in Hritsev (Gritsev; 8 miles to the west of Lubin/Labun) and emigrated from Rotterdam via the S.S. Posdam on 23 December 1911. He arrived in New York Harbor on 2 January 1912.[2]

Unlike his brother and Myers cousins, Israel became a fabric salesman, specializing in silk and rayon.[3]

I estimate that Israel and Eva married about 1918 (I have yet to find their marriage record). Eva Myers was the daughter of Saul and Gussie Weinstein.[4]

They had two sons: Martin (born ca. 1918) and Stanley (born in 1926). 

Notes:

1. Bronx County, New York, Certificate of Death no. 4981 (20 May 1940), Israel Myers, Municipal Archives, New York, New York.

2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 July 2009), manifest, S.S. Posdam, Rotterndam to New York, arriving 2 January 1912, list 10 (stamped), line 7, Israel Maltzman, citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 1793.

3. 1930 U.S. Census, Bronx County, New York, population schedule, Bronx, Enumeration District (ED) 3-110, sheet 18A, dwelling 423, family 342, Israel; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 September 2008), citing National Archives microfilm publication T626, roll 1466; citing Family History Library microfilm 2,341,201.
1940 U.S. Census, Bronx County, New York, population schedule, Bronx, Enumeration District (ED) 3-127B, sheet 10A, household 226, Israel Meyers; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 April 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 2463.

4. Bronx County, New York, Certificate of Death no. 83 (1 January 1946), Eva Myers, Municipal Archives, New York, New York.