My great-great grandfather was Chaim Joshowitz. I saw his name as the source of information for the death record for his sister-in-law Basha Eizikovics Lebovics and got excited--all of the other death records I'd been looking at for Kolodne had the signature of the person who reported a death!
Bashe (here "Beeza") Eizikovics Lebovics died on July 1, 1905 in Kolodne (then Darva), Austria-Hungary at the age of 35, in childbirth. Her parents were given as Hershko and Riza Markovics--the first names similar to the death record of her sister Mindel (my great-great grandmother), but a different mother's maiden name. Hershko was a merchant; her husband Sije (Shia) was an innkeeper.
And what about Chaim Joshowitz's signature?
Three x's. Was he illiterate? Possibly. Or perhaps he only wrote Yiddish and not Hungarian. As I go through more documents, perhaps I'll find an actual signature, or perhaps this is it!
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| Death Record for Basha Eizikovics Lebovics; Kolodne; 1905 |
Bashe (here "Beeza") Eizikovics Lebovics died on July 1, 1905 in Kolodne (then Darva), Austria-Hungary at the age of 35, in childbirth. Her parents were given as Hershko and Riza Markovics--the first names similar to the death record of her sister Mindel (my great-great grandmother), but a different mother's maiden name. Hershko was a merchant; her husband Sije (Shia) was an innkeeper.
And what about Chaim Joshowitz's signature?
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| Chaim Joshowitz's "signature" |
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