Yearly Archives: 2012

Lynton & Grace Scharff lived here

Posted on March 1, 2012 by gsghert01

The Houston, Tx. home of Lynton “Pappy” (my step grandfather) and Grace Scharff (my grand aunt) was 1717 California St. (here).

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Solomon & Mary Block’s memorial stones, Camden

Posted on February 23, 2012 by gsghert01

I found records at Findagrave.com that Solomon Block and Mary Levinson Block (my great great grandparents) and Lena Grace Block, a younger sister of “Bumpa”, were buried at Jewish Rest Cemetery in Camden, Arkansas. (Also see International Jewish Cemetery Project). … Continue reading →

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‘Circuit Riders’ .. Rabbis that is

Posted on February 14, 2012 by gsghert01

Part of the training for American Rabbinical students at all three Hebrew Union College campuses is to travel to under-served Jewish communities to conduct worship services. The Jewish Archives in Cincinnati has letters dated in the 1890s from the Hebrew … Continue reading →

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WWII bomb sight maker buys Cullom & Ghertner

Posted on February 2, 2012 by gsghert01

The Norden bomb sight was a tachometric device (which incorporated an analog/mechanical computer and linkage to the airplane’s autopilot) that was used by United States forces to help the crew drop bombs accurately on selected targets from high altitudes in … Continue reading →

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Shackin’ up, Em & Pappy style

Posted on January 22, 2012 by gsghert01

Lynton “Pappy” Scharff lived in a Houston, Texas boarding house of Rena and Anne DeGroot (from Holland) at the time of the 1920 US Census. On 27 Oct. 1920, he married Jessie Grace Block. Eduard Lynton Scharff was born in … Continue reading →

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Lenny hoofed it to meet Jean

Posted on January 11, 2012 by gsghert01

Frances Jean Bloom, whose home was Little Rock, Arkansas, attended school at Nashville’s Ward-Belmont College, a very prestigious ‘finishing school’ for girls, mostly from Middle Tennessee. It’s likely Leonard Cooper Ghertner was still living at his family’s home at 1702 … Continue reading →

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Who put the ‘h’ in Ghertner?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by gsghert01

I recall my dad (Leonard Ghertner) told a story that Simon Ghertner’s name had been changed to include the ‘h’ at Ellis Island because ‘it looked better’. Actually it appears Simon Ghertner never entered the United States through Ellis Island. … Continue reading →

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Mobile phone users

Posted on January 10, 2012 by gsghert01

This blog can be viewed on some smart phones:

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