Sarah Schleger Nelson Schwartz Cook |
Toby Yecht Shlager Nelson |
b: 1863 - 1868, Lokacze? came to US c 1921 |
c1900 or 1924 |
Smith Street Cemetery, Portland, Maine. Toba daughter of Yitzchak. |
Sarah Nelson Schwartz Cook b: 10/6/1900, Lokacze, Ukraine
came to US 1921 1959 photo 12/11/1969
Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Portland, ME
Sarah daughter of Avraham Michel CHILDREN Abraham Melvin Schwartz Molly Schwartz Cinamon 6/7/1923
1/9/1997 7/13/1927, Portland, ME 1948 photo 1948 photo
Nelson siblings in Ukraine circa 1906-1910. Per Molly Cinamon:
Sarah (b: 10/6/1900) is in lower right. Taube is top center. Etta (b: 4/5/1893) is probably at top right.
The other woman and two children might be the sister Anna and her 2 kids.
From the collection of Molly Cinamon.
stamp on reverse:
Photograph
R. Sh. Bregman or Hersh Bergman
Horokhiv (Gorokhov), Volyn Gubernia
Negatives are saved
BTS note: Horokhiv (Gorokhov) is about 20 miles South of Lokachi
March 25, 1921: Halifax Declaration: Going to Brother-in-law and sister Jack and [Rose] Robinson, 102 Nazareth, Montreal
March 25, 1921: Sura and Taube Schlager arrive Montreal from Liverpool. Going to Portland: Katz
August 13, 1922: Portland, Maine: Marriage of John William Schwartz and Sarah Nelson
1931 circa, Portland, Maine: Molly and Mickey Schwartz. Anne Thorner Stack collection.
November 3, 1935: Anne Thorner Diary
November 4, 1935: Anne Thorner Diary
July 30, 2020: Toby Cinamon Rabold wrote me that her mother said Sarah was having a miscarriage.
November 5, 1935: Anne Thorner Diary
Rose and Celia Stern were family friends. Don't know whther Sam is Sam Stern, Celia's brother, or Sam Cook.
November 6, 1935: Anne Thorner Diary
December 14, 1935: Anne Thorner Diary
Jake Robinson from Toronto, husband of Sarah's sister Rose and also cousin to both.
April 6, 1936: Anne Thorner Diary
April 7, 1936: Anne Thorner Diary
June 17, 1941: Portsmouth, NH: Marriage of Sarah and Max Cook.
1959: Biddeford, Maine: from left: Irving Thorner, Max and Sarah Cook, Mel Thorner. Barbara Toby Stack photo.
May 6, 1960: Dover, NH: Just before my Bat Mitzvah. With Aunt Sarah and Uncle Max.
Aunt Sarah was the youngest sister of my late maternal grandmother and very much her proxy.
April 1969: Portland, Maine: Sarah Cook and Susan Schwartz and Pat Schwartz. Barbara Toby Stack photo.
April 1969: Portland, Maine: Sarah Cook & granddaughter Susan Schwartz. Barbara Toby Stack photo.
More from this day.
Aunt Sarah’s Passover Wine Cake
Sarah Cook, Portland, Maine
preheat oven to 350 F
8 x 10 inch Pyrex pan lined with waxed paper
separate 14 eggs
1 and 1/4 cup sugar
3 oz. sweet red wine
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 Tbl. potato starch, sifted with matzo cake meal to equal 1 and 1/2 cupbeat yolks and sugar 15 minutes
beat whites until stiff
beat dry ingredients and wine into yolks
fold whites into yellow mixture
bake 45 minutes
cool
spread a mixture of sugar and cinnamon over top with a damp hand.Sarah Nelson Schwartz Cook, Portland, Maine
transcribed and measured by Pat Schwartz
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