Some sad news

Posted on December 30, 2013 by gsghert01
Robert A. "Bob" Rosen

Robert A. “Bob” Rosen

Bob Rosen

Bob Rosen

A second cousin, Bob Rosen, passed away in Little Rock, Arkansas on 24 December 2013. He had turned 66 on July 4th.

I remember when visiting Em and Pappy in Little Rock, my brother and I often got together with Bobby.

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More stories …

Posted on May 27, 2013 by gsghert01

“”my great grandmother Rachel (Abrams) Fleisman built a house on West End Avenue (corner West End and Wilson) in Nashville, Tennesse which is still standing. She was extremely smart,and was the type person who used to say that she was as smart as any man and she was. She died in 1955 when I was 14 so I really got to know her. She ran my moms side of the family with an iron fist. “

August Picard left Alsace, France because he had killed a man in a duel.

Reminiscing about Dora Ghertner and her sisters here.

My brother also remembers Ada, Annie and Essie well. Ada was the boss of her sisters. When we visited their house, we’d always have a coke and try to sit in their recliner chair. On Saturdays during high school, he’d drive them (they’d have been about 80 years old then) to grocery shopping. They’d take their coupons and go for the best price, even if it meant he had to drive back to the first grocery store because the canned peaches were a nickel cheaper.

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My mishpocha

Posted on May 4, 2013 by gsghert01

Mishpocha is a Yiddish word for all family members by blood or marriages and also extended family who are treated as part of the family. I’m including those families who are not my blood relatives, vis a vis, they are my mishpocha.

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Pseudo family trees

Posted on April 24, 2013 by gsghert01

Our family tree is maintained at Ancestry.com and I’ll be glad to share it if you ask me. There is no charge to explore it.

The intricacies of a family tree are far more complicated than can be managed with the software I use on this website. Nonetheless, I have done my best to share a bit about our ancestors at these links.

Both Emile Levy (emigrated to Arkansas) and Loeb “Leopold” Levy (emigrated to Port Gibson, Mississippi) were from France but I’ve found no evidence they were related.

Paternal side of my family

  1. Fleisman, Frankland’s and Weil’s my uncle Alven Ghertner’s in-laws
  2. Ghertner’s

Maternal side of my family

  1. Block’s – my 2X great grandparents
  2. Bloom’s – my 2X great grandparents
  3. Eisenkramer’s & Baum’s – in-laws of my grand uncle Raymond Block, Sr.
  4. Gruber’s & Cohen’s – Pappy’s son-in-law
  5. (Emile) Levy’s – my 2X great grandparents
  6. (Loeb) Levy’s, Picard’s & Weil’s – in-laws of my cousin Mary Louise Block
  7. Pfeifer’s – in-laws of my cousin Emanuel G. Levy, Jr.
  8. Rhine’s – my mom’s maternal great grandparent’s, Solomon & Fredricka Rhine
  9. Scharff’s & Marx’s – family of my step-grandfather Pappy Scharff
  10. Strauss’ & Altscul’s – in-laws of my cousin Madolyn Levy
  11. Taliaferro’s – in-laws of my cousin Raymond Block, Jr.
  12. Terry’s – in-laws of my cousin EL Scharff

 

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Simon Ghertner Obituary & Birth Date Inconsistencies

Posted on April 24, 2013 by gsghert01

Birth years that I’ve found for my grandfather are 1882, 1884, 1885 and 1887. The correct year may never be determined. The evidence leads to me to conclude that Simon Ghertner was born in Roman, Roumania on 25 August 1882.

Obituary

Simon Ghertner’s Obituary

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The founding of Cullom & Ghertner

Posted on April 21, 2013 by gsghert01
Simon Ghertner, J(ohn) Cullom & Oscar Bainbridge

Simon Ghertner, J(ohn) Cullom & Oscar Bainbridge

I’m reposting this because I just received a picture of J.A. (John) Cullom  Joseph Alexander Cullom (name updated based on his death notice here) , co-founder of the printing company and have information about the date of the founding.

Simon Ghertner was working at the Delcher Printing company and Mr. Cullom was the plant foreman. They became close friends and Mr. Cullom taught Simon ‘American money’ , a ‘lot of the customs’ and ‘took a great interest in me’.

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Tracye’s photo contribution

Posted on April 8, 2013 by gsghert01

These individuals are my “mother’s side” of my family. Elizabeth M. Pfeifer, who married Emanuel Gabe “EG” Levy, Jr. was called “Bush”; this came from her childhood during which her brother, Eugene M. Pfeifer had called her ‘Elizabush’. The children had  pronounced Eugene as ‘bluejean’ so he was called Blue.

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The Pine Bluff connection

Posted on April 4, 2013 by gsghert01

The family of my maternal grandfather, John Rhine Bloom (1864-1935) had been in Pine Bluff since the 1850s. His wife was Emma Marie Block (1895-1980). John and Emma were married in Pine Bluff on 17 December 1917. Their daughter was my mother, Jean, was born in Pine luff.

Helene Goree Eisenkramer (1898-1973), who married Raymond Emile Block, Sr. (1892-1968) was also born in Pine Bluff. They were married in Pine Bluff on 4 March 1917.

The children (Alvin Sr., Mae Louise and Mildred)  of  Alexander Hamilton Strauss (1861-1932) and May Weil (1870 – 1953) were also born in Pine Bluff between 1890 and 1899. Alvin Strauss, Sr. had moved to Little Rock when he married Tracye Altschul on 19 May 1918.

As the Jewish community was small, Helene may have known John & Emma Bloom in Pine Bluff even before those families moved to Little Rock.

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