Tombstone Tuesday: Benjamin and Annie Weingart

I first wrote about Benny Weingart last year after I'd visited Kolomyya, Ukraine. On his World War I Draft card, David Ett, my grandmother's first cousin, reported working for Markowitz and Weingart.[1] When I'd looked up the firm in directories of the era, it was clear that the Weingart part of the company was Benny and that they were furriers (as was Dave Ett). 

Benny's surname had been Wenkert - the same as my great grandmother Bertha Wenkert Liebross. Like my great grandmother's family, Benny's Wenkerts started in the Zaleszczyki area of the Austrian Empire. Unlike my great grandmother and her children who were in (what is today) Radauti, Romania before emigrating the the United States, Benny and most of his siblings lived in Vienna.

Photos used by permission of Dyane McIndoe [2]

Here lies

Khane Dinah daughter of David Yitzchak

Died 1st day in the month of Cheshvan 5707

May her soul be bound in everlasting life

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OUR BELOVED

MOTHER

ANNIE

WEINGART

DIED OCT. 25, 1946

AGE 58 YEARS

Here lies

Dov Ber son of Yonah Tzadik

Died 2nd day of Sukkot 5695

May his soul be bound in everlasting life

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BELOVED HUSBAND
AND DEAR FATHER
BENJAMIN
WEINGART
DIED SEPT. 27, 1934
AGE 53 YEARS
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LONELY ARE WE WITHOUT YOU
HOW WE MISS YOU NO ONE KNOWS
OUR THOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS WITH YOU
FROM EARLY MORN TILL EVENING CLOSE

Benny was the son of Yonah Tzudek (or Tzadik) Wenkert and Khane Altschul.

Benjamin Weingart

Benny, a furrier, arrived in New York Harbor from Vienna in 1899 on the S.S. Statendam.[3]

On 5 March 1904 he married Heni (Anna) Panitzky.[4] Annie was the daughter of David Isaac Panitzky and Khava Orlinsky.

Benny and Anna had five children: 

• Julia Weingart Kravitz (15 November 1905-11 December 1992), 
• Ruth Weingart Rosenberg (19 July 1907-25 May 1997),
• Hilda Weingart Deaner (13 march 1910-21 Apri 2002),
• Irving Weingart (25 February 1914-14 June 1997), and 
• Howard Ira Weingart (30 June 1916-23 January 2002).

Annie and Benjamin are buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, New York; Empire State Lodge plot, block 25, reference 7, section F, Line 2, graves 8 and 9.

Today, Benny is still one of my "floaters": someone I know is related but for whom I have thus far found no direct documented links.

Notes:

1. "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 May 2008), card for David Ett, no. 283, Kings County Draft Board 68, Precinct 164; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917 - 1918, National Archives microfilm publication M1509; imaged from Family History Library microfilm roll 1,754,596.

2. Benjamin Wenkert & Annie Wenkert, grave, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, New York; digital images, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 May 2012), photographed by Dyane McIndoe.
3. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 10 November 2013), manifest, S.S. Statendam, Rotterdam to New York, arriving 18 June 1899, List 47, number 3, Berel Wenkert; citing National Archives Microfilm Serial T715, microfilm roll 71.

4. New York County, New York, Certificate and Record of Marriage no. 5130 (5 March 1904), Benj. Weingart and Heni Panitzky, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.