posted<\/a> about before, so \u2018nuff said.\u00a0 Pearl Scheier Riddner Winestine (c 1878-1958) emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1902 with her widowed mother and youngest brother.\u00a0 She married and had two children, the first of whom died about age 2 soon after Sarah was born.\u00a0 Pearl\u2019s husband left her and eventually divorced her in 1913.\u00a0 Leah Levine Greenberg (1883-1959) emigrated from the Russian Empire probably in 1903-1904, spending a year or a little more working in the garment business in New York City before marrying and having 2 children with a husband who had traveling feet.<\/p>\nGreat-grandmothers:\u00a0 Mary Sweet Snow (1853-1917) showed her strength in surviving a stroke of some kind and surviving 5 years before succumbing to it\u2019s effects.\u00a0 Mary Louise Minor Denman (1868-1930) was described as a spitfire little woman, known to chase her husband around the kitchen with a cast iron frying pan in her hand when he frustrated her too much.\u00a0 Mary E. Hockman Boothby (1855-1934) seems to have been fostered out by the age of 4, living on a small farm in southwestern Ohio until she was 18 when she married.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder if she was an orphan train orphan from the East or whether she was the child of parents who either died or couldn\u2019t for other reason take care of her.\u00a0 Katie Coffin Salt (1852-1928) on the other hand, was the youngest of a fairly well-off family until she married and moved to the Salt family farm.\u00a0 Her husband had some sort of mental breakdown perhaps following an accident, and Katie was left on her own to raise 2 children.<\/p>\n
On Dan\u2019s side the great-grandmothers were:\u00a0 Zissel Moses Scheier (c 1847-1923) who emigrated from the Russian Empire originally planning to join her husband who was already in the U.S. but not arriving until after his early death.\u00a0 She was the family matriarch for the rest of her life to the families of her 4 sons and 2 daughters.\u00a0 Leah Baile (_____) Riddner (c 1860-1930) emigrated alone as a widow in 1914 from the Russian Empire to join her two children who were already living in the U.S. and had established families.\u00a0 She was a very religious woman which made it hard on her children\u2019s families to live with her, and she moved from one household to another finally ending up as a boarder in Chicago.\u00a0 The other two great-grandmothers on Dan\u2019s side we have names for but no other information.\u00a0 Feige Goldring Greenberg was named on a couple of her son\u2019s applications here in the U.S.\u00a0 N\u2019Chave Dvorah Yellin Levin was named as mother by several of her children who migrated to the U.S. but no other information about her was passed down.\u00a0 So far there is little other information about either of these women but they both lived in shtetls in the Russian Empire before WWI, and in all likelihood had to be strong women to thrive and raise children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I would venture to say that in most family trees many or most of the women are found to be strong in some way or another.\u00a0 Many of our earlier ancestors were, by definition, very strong women both emotionally and …<\/p>\n
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