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Tag Archives: Block
Joseph F. Block letter of 10 Mar 1942
Read Joseph (“Bumpa”) F. Block’s letter to Mae (PDF) In the letter to Mae (now identified below) Uncle Joe says the Block family moved from Camden to old Mexico for a year or two during the Civil War and that … Continue reading
Solomon Block’s Household
Solomon Block and Mary Levinson, then a resident of Washington, Arkansas [Source Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life](60-70 miles from Solomon’s home in Camden) were married 21 Feb 21 1856 in Hempstead County, Arkansas (Washington is in that County). In … Continue reading
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Solomon Block big shot
“….Solomon Block, one of the earliest Jewish settlers in Camden and the first president of the local congregation. As head of the local school board, Block fought off attempts to require bible reading in the public schools.
Stories
1) Lynton L. Scharff was married to Jessie Grace Block and they had two children; they divorced. After my grandfather John Bloom died in the 1935, my grandmother Emma Marie Block, married Lynton L. “Pappy” Scharff in 1938 on 15 … Continue reading
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Block
See 4 generations of Block’s Solomon Block was my great great grandfather who was born in Bohemia, Austria in 1826. He was a very wealthy merchant (tobacco, liquor and later sugar plantation in Louisiana with his partner, Edward Fiebleman) and … Continue reading
Scharff
See 3 generations of Scharff’s Eduard Scharff (born 11 Jan 1857 in Kleinfischlingen, Rhein Pfalz, Germany) and Esther Marx (b. 1869 in Galveston, Texas-1906) (her family page here) had one child, Lynton Lazarus Scharff. They lived in Jennings, Louisiana around 1900 … Continue reading
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