According to the 1920 Trammell Crow Directory Jennie and Joseph Schwartz lived at 65 West 127th Street NYC which is located in East Harlem.
Joseph Schwartz owned a fur shop called French Fur Shop located at 68 West 1254th Street in Manhattan.
5. Simcha Ya'acov (Samuel Jacob) Rosen
.At the time of Sam's birth, Annosl~aw was under the Russian Partitian. It is located in old wojewo~dztwo (Province) Skierniewice (and modern day Province of Lodz) about 5km south of Bial~a Rawska (Belarus or Bell-A-Russia). The closest Synagouge or Jewish Cemetery is located in Bial~a Rawska.
The language spoken during that time was both Russian and Polish. The Russians insisted that in Public and in school the language spoken was to be Russian. People spoke Polish in private at home...Some people took their children out of school and taught them at home, in Polish.
According to the National Archives Records Administration Ellis Island Arrival Records Samuel boarded the SS Livonia from Libau Russia in June of 1907. He arrived in New York's Ellis Island approx 3 weeks later to stay with an uncle with the last name of Rosen at 56 East 115th Street New York City.
The arrival records lists Sam as :
21 year old single male
Born in Annosl~aw (spelled Onislow on the arrival record)
Occupation a Laborer
Nationality Russian
Hebrew
5ft 4 in tall, brown hair and blue eyesThere is a Hebrew inscription on the bottom of Sam's grave stone...The translation reads:
"Simcha Yaacov ben Rev. Zev Wolf"
This would be Sam's name and lineage in Hebrew. The "Simcha Yaacov" is Samuel Jacob
(although Samuel is usually "Schmuel"...Simcha means happy occasion). The
"ben" means son of and the Rev. used to be used as an honorary title for any
older, pious male person. And "Zev Wolf" would be Sam's father's Hebrew
name, and may have no relevance (except, perhaps, for initials) to the
English name. "Zev" is sometimes the name for "William" but not always
Sarah is buried in Mt Lebanon Cemetery in NYC
718-821-0200Block E1
Line 5
Grave 6According to the cemetery records Sarah was 37 yrs old when she died.
She was buried 1 day after her death which is June 10, 1922
She is buried within the Lebanon section of the cememtery....which according to the cemetery she would have been born in Lebanon..They are usually buried within the section of the country they are born in.
Samuel Rosen was listed as the last contact, the grave was purchased by Sarah through the Lebanon Society.
According to Mt Zion Cemetery, Albert died at the age of 19 and was buried April 12, 1928. He is buried within the Manhattan Young Men's Association Section. the only grave site info they could give me is that his grave is located on Path 4 on the left.
Cemetery is opened on Sundays 9-3
On March 23, 1956 Anna Rosen's name was legally changed to Ann Lee Rose...She went by the name of Nan
Vitautas Sugszitis officially changed his name to Victor Lauras Macey on March 23, 1956
Vitautas Sugszitis parents names were:
Mother Anna Bernota born in Russia and was 28 at the time of Vitautas birth
Father Lauras Sugszitis born in Russia and was 34 at the time of Vitautas birth