Tombstone Tuesday: Ruth Mason, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY

Ruth Mason was the eldest child of Lubin immigrants Harry and Anna Charny Rubin. She was born in Chicago, but grew up in Brooklyn.[1]

Rivka daughter of Tzvi Arye

RUTH

MASON

LOVING AND DEVOTED

WIFE, MOTHER

AND GRANDMOTHER

NOV. 4, 1921

APRIL 8, 2010

In 1930, the family lived at 1910 Myrtle Avenue and in 1940 (and for at least five years before that) they resided at 175 Ocean Parkway.

I have not been able to locate much information about Ruth. Except for the surname Mason, I do not know her husband's name or that of her offspring. Public records indicate she lived in Sunnyside, Queens for many years and ultimately resided in Long Island City, Queens. [update: Thanks to Lara Diamond (see comment, below), I now have her obituary from the NY Times. Ruth did marry, apparently, but her husband is not named. This may be due to divorce. She did have a daughter who survived her.]

She died at the age of 88 and is buried in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Associaton plot in Montefiore Cemetery, block 5, gate 567W, line 6R, grave 2, next to her brother Sidney Rubin and near her parents.

Notes:

1. 1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-323, sheet 21A, dwelling 100, family 288, Harry and Anna Rubin family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 December 2010); NARA microfilm publication T 626, roll 1503.

1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-1404, sheet 7A & 7B, household 162, Harry and Anna Rubin family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 September 2015); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2582. 

Tombstone Tuesday: David Lerman and Esther Lerner Lerman, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY

Esther Lerner Lerman, was the eldest child of Frank and Rose Lerner. She married her husband, David in Europe and immigrated with him in 1921 from their residence in Warsaw (David's place of birth).[1] 

David Lerman, like so many immigrants from (or associated with) the Russian Empire community of Labun, became a glazier. On the manifest of his ship's landing in Philadelphia, he was listed as a laborer.

Here lies

Ester daughter of Pesach

ESTHER

BELOVED WIFE

DEAR MOTHER

GRANDMOTHER

DEC. 27, 1989

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Here lies

David Feivel son of Shmuel HaCohen

DAVID

BELOVED HUSBAND

DEAR FATHER

GRANDFATHER

NOV. 16, 1977

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FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Both of Esther and David's children were born after the family had settled in New York City. Louis was likely born on 19 April 1922 in Manhattan and died in 2007 in Florida.[2] Evelyn Lerman Freed, according to her mother's naturalization petition, was born in 1925 in Brooklyn.

In the 1925 New York State census, the family lived at 559 Sheffield Avenue.[3] In a 1933 Brooklyn city directory, they lived at 422 Sheffield Avenue, as are Esther parents.[4] In 1940, Esther's father (Frank) and brother (Jack) shared the home at 449 New Lots Avenue with David, Esther, Louis, and Evelyn.[5] 

Esther's tombstone inscription indicates that her father, Frank's, Hebrew name was Pesach. Frank's tombstone, however, says his name was Efraim.

David and Esther both died in Dade County, Florida and are interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery, Block 24, Maccabee Road, Pinelawn, New York.

Notes:
1. "Pennsylvania, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1800-1962," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 October 2015), manifest, S.S. Samland, Antwerp to Philadelphia, arriving2 July 1921, list 33, lines 5-6, Dawid and Ester Lerman; citing NARA microfilm publication T840, roll 143.
2. Esther's naturalization record indicates Louis' birth date was 19 April 1922. Louis' indexed Social Security claims record suggests a birth date of 2 October 1921. Since this is an indexed record (and I do not have the original from which the index was derived), I tend to favor the date provided by Esther.  
Esther Lerman, petition for naturalization no. 239289, 27 October 1937, Eastern District of New York; Record Group 21: Records of the District Courts of the United States; National Archives - Northeast Region, New York City; digital image, Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 18 October 2015). 
"U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007," index, Ancestry.com (http://ww.ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2015); entry for Louis Lerman, birth date 2 October 1921, death date 1 August 2007.
3. 1925 New York State Census, Kings County, list of inhabitants, Brooklyn, assembly district 2, election district 51, page 32, David and Esther Lerman family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2015); citing New York State Archives, Albany.
4. Polk's Brooklyn City Directory, 1933-4 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc.: New York, 1933), p. 1136; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2015).
5. 1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-2722, sheet 61B, household 270, David and Esther Lerman family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 October 2015); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2618.

Tombstone Tuesday: Frank and Rose Lerner, Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY

Frank (Froim) Lerner emigrated from Labun on the S.S. California in 1913.[1] He was already married to his wife Rose (Rakhma) and already had three children: Esther, Sylvia and Jack. I have previously written about Jack here and here.

Here lies

Beloved father

Efraim son of Yechezkeil

Died 13 Tishri 5710

May his soul be bound in the bonds of the living

FRANK

LERNER

DIED OCT. 6, 1949

AGE 76 YEARS

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BELOVED 

FATHER

Perhaps it was the start of World War I and, later, the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war in Russia that kept Rakhma and the children from immigrating. Many families were caught between continents during that time.

AT REST

Here lies

An important and modest woman

Khana Rokhman Lerner

daughter of Yitzkhak

Died 16 Tammuz 5690

May her soul be bound in the bonds of the living

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ROSE

LERNER

DIED JULY 11, 1930

AGE 51 YEARS

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BELOVED WIFE

AND

DEAR MOTHER

Ultimately, however, the family was reunited and settle in Brooklyn. 

While I have not located a manifest that includes Rose, Sylvia and Jack, I have found that the eldest child, Esther, married in the old country and arrived in Philadelphia with her husband David Lerman in 1921.[2] The 1930 U.S. census, indicates that Rose, Sylvia and Jack arrived in the United States in 1921, as well.[3] 

On his passenger manifest in 1913, Froim Lerner reported that he was a merchant, living in Labun, but born in "Constantine" (likely Staro Konstyantiniv). Frank tried several occupations in New York City. When he naturalized in 1926, he said he was a jeweler.[4] In the 1930 census enumeration he was an operator (likely in some sort of clothing concern). By the 1940  census, he had retired.[5]

Rose's gravestone is unusual in that it indicates her maiden name: Rokhman. I have noted other Rochman's in the Montefiore Cemetery plot and more in passenger manifests of former Labun residents, but I thus far have not been able to link Rose to any of them.

Rose died after exploratory surgery in treatment of a brain tumor at the age of 49.[6]

Frank and Rose are buried in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot at Montefiore Cemetery, NY. They are both in block 89, gate 156W. Frank is buried in line 8R, grave 3. Rose is in line 4L, grave 2

Notes:

1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 18 December 2010), manifest, S.S. California, Liverpool to New York, arriving 12 March 1913, list 9 (handwritten), line 16, Froim Lerner; citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 2027.  

2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 25 October 2015), manifest, S.S. Samland, Antwerp to Philadelphia, arriving 2 July 1921, list 33 (handwritten), lines 5 & 6, Dawid and Ester Lerman; citing NARA microfilm publication T840, roll 143. 

3. 1930 U.S. Census, kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-1794, sheet 7B, dwelling 62, family 123, Frank, Rose and Sylvia Lerner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2010); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1493.

1930 U.S. Census, kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-14222, sheet 10A, dwelling 17, family 231, Jack and Edna Learner family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 October 2015); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1493.

4. Frank Lerner petition for naturalization (1926), naturalization file no. 49309, Eastern District of New York; Record Group 21L Records of the District Courts of the United States; National Archives-Northeast Region, New York City.

5. 1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-2722, sheet 61B, household 270, Frank Lerner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 October 2015); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2618.
6. New York County, New York, death certificate no. 17075 (1930), Rose Lerner, 11 July 1930, Municipal Archives, New York. 

Treasure Chest Thursday: Benjamin Norflus advertisement, FLPBA 1949 anniversary publication

I've discussed Benjamin Norflus and Adell Fetell Norflus in a previous post. Adell was the Lubin immigrant. She married Benjamin Norflus in 1931.[1] Benjamin immigrated to Argentina on 21 March 1918, but finally made the voyage to join his brother in the United States in 1923.[2]

In 1940, Ben's glass shop was in Brooklyn, probably at 536 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn. This would have been just around the corner from his apartment at 236 Linden Street.[3]

Ben and Adell had two children. Their son, Albert, was born in 22 January 1932 and passed away in January 2011. He attended Boys High School in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ancestry.com has his high school yearbook (and his signature) online.[4]

Notes:
1. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 4217 (1931), Benjamin Norflus and Adell Fetell, 22 February 1931; Municipal Archives, New York.
2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 18 December 2010), manifest, S.S. American Legion, Buenos Aires to New York, arriving 30 April 1923, list 19 (handwritten), line 11, Benjamin Norflus, citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 3028.
3. 1940 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-2393, sheet 11B, household 210, Ben and Adell Norflus family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 October 2015); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2609.
4. Senior Recorder, June 1949, Boys High School, entry for Albert Norflus, p. 30; digital image, "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 November 2015).

Tombstone Tuesday: Raymond Lerner, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY

EHG, 17 July 2011

Here lies

Rakhmiel son of

Yekhezkiel and Etka

RAYMOND

LERNER

APRIL 7, 1931

MAY 23, 2009

MY BELOVED HUSBAND

MY BEST FRIEND

DEVOTED FATHER
AND GRANDFATHER

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

May his soul be bound in the bonds of the living. 

Raymond Lerner, second son of immigrants Jack and Edna Lerner, was born, according to unconfirmed information on FindAGrave.com, in East New York, a section of southern Brooklyn. Previous posts have discussed his parents and early childhood.

According to the FindAGrave entry, Ray was married and had two children. He died in Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey.[1] He is buried in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot, Block 24, Maccabee Road, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, Suffolk County, New York.

Note:

1. "U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 November 2015); entry for Raymond Lerner, died 23 May 2009.