Tombstone Tuesday: Morris and Anna Kaimowitz, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York

Last week I posted about my two-for-one discovery that there are three Marcus sisters interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot at Beth Moses Cemetery - and none of them are from the town associated with this landsmanshaft organization: Labun/Lubin. The link among them is via Labun native, Jack Lerner, husband of sister Edna Marcus. You may read about Jack and Edna here and here.

This week, the subject is one of Edna's sisters, Anna Marcus Kaimowitz, and her husband Morris.

KAIMOWITZ

MORRIS

BELOVED HUSBAND

DEVOTED FATHER

AND GRANDFATHER

AUG. 20, 1896

JULY 18, 1972

ANNA BELOVED WIFE

DEVOTED MOTHER

AND GRANDMOTHER

DEC. 9, 1905

DEC. 6, 1982

SHE LIVED WITH

PRIDE AND DIGNITY

Both Morris and Anna were from Lomza, Poland and married in Brooklyn on 3 June 1923.[1] 

Morris was the son of Kadish Kaimowitz and Yospa Kassowitz. I located an indexed Lomza birth entry recorded in 1906 for Moszk Kajmowicz, son of Kadysz, on the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland webpage. The record was recorded consecutively along with two other siblings. Moszk's birth record was likely a delayed entry. Perhaps his parents did not travel to the records office to document his birth until a younger sibling was born. An index of the 1987 Lomza census, shows the family with son Mojsej Kajmowicz, age 3.[2] So, it is likely that Morris was born in about 1893-4.

Morris' World War I draft registration card showed a birth date of 20 August 1894. His Social Security Death Index record indicated 20 August 1895. His World War II registration showed 20 August 1896.[3] So, there is consistency for the 20th of August. The year is still a question.

I have yet to locate Morris' immigration or naturalization records, but his census records in 1920 and 1930 indicate he arrived in the U.S. between 1912 and 1914.[4] In New York he initially worked as a tailor in a clothing factory.

Anna's typed passenger manifest showed her as Chona Liba Mareyk (probably mistranscribed from something like Marcyk).[5] She was 14 and traveled with her older sister Perra from Liverpool to New York, landing on 19 July 1920.

Anna and her later arriving family members all went to her elder brother Jacob Marcus' home at 377 Hinsdale Avenue in Brooklyn. Anna was still at that address in 1923 when she married Morris Kaimowitz. Their marriage ceremony was performed there, as well.[6] 

By 1930, Morris and Anna lived at 3426 41st Street in Long Island City, Queens County, NY. Their son Carl had been born 31 March 1924 (died 18 July 1969) and David was born on 30 July 1929 (died on 5 January 2009).[7]

In 1940 they lived at 3056 37th Street, Long Island City, Queens Co., NY, with their two sons and Anna's parents Israel and Molly Marcus.[8]

On his World War II draft registration card, Morris reported that he owned his own tailoring business at 32-31 Steinway Street in Long Island City and lived at 30-62 37th Street.[9]

Morris and Anna's son, Carl's, grave is in the same Beth Moses Cemetery plot.

Notes:
1. Kings County, New York, marriage certificate no. 6674 (1923), Morris Kaimowitz and Anna Marcus, 3 June 1923; Municipal Archives, New York City.
2. 1897 Russian Census, Lomza District, entry for Mojsej Kajmowicz, age 3; index, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (http://www.jri-p.org : accessed 17 December 2017); citing Polish State Archives, Fond 19, sygnatura 22, p. 27. 
3. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918," images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, no. 309, draft board 87, Kings County, New York. 
   "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://wwww.familysearch.org : accessed 17 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, July 1972. 
   "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942," images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, serial no. 2559, Queens County, New York. 
4. 1920 U.S. Census, Kings Co., NY, pop. sched., Brooklyn, e.d. 91, sheet 5A, dwell. 50, fam. 77, Morris Kemowitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1146.   1930 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, sheet 12A, e.d. 41-75, dwell. 44, fam. 223, Morris and Anna Kaimowitz family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1585.
5. Manifest, S.S. Caronia, 19 July 1920, p. 16, line 30, Chona Liba [indexed as Lida] Mareyk, age 14; images, "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017). 
6. Kings Co., NY, marriage certificate no. 6674 (1923), Morris Kaimowitz and Anna Marcus, 3 June 1923.
7. 1930 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, sheet 12A, e.d. 41-75, dwell. 44, fam. 223, Morris and Anna Kaimowitz family.
   Carl's dates of birth and death are from his gravestone in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York.
   For David's dates of birth and death, see "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017), entry for David Kaimowitz, 5 January 2009, Scotch Plains, Union Co., NJ.
8. 1940 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, e.d. 41-72, sheet 9A, household 168, Morris and Anna Kelmwitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2017); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2721.
9. "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942," entry for Morris Kaimowitz, serial no. 2559, Queens County, New York.