Tombstone Tuesday: Harry & Gertie Liebross

Harry Ira and Gertrude Bohrer Liebross headstone, Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, New York, Block U, Section 4, Line 8, Graves 14 and 13, Plot owned by Beth Talmud Torah of Brooklyn.

Here lies

Yisrael Hirsch son of Eliezer

HARRY IRA

 BELOVED HUSBAND

DEAR FATHER

AND GRANDFATHER

 NOV. 14, 1893

SEPT. 18, 1956

Here lies

 Gitl daughter of Aharon Zise

GERTRUDE

BELOVED WIFE

DEVOTED MOTHER

DEAREST GRANDMOTHER

June 13, 1906

June 7, 1972

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Harry Liebross was the fifth child and third son of Louis and Bertha Liebross and was born about 1893 in Radautz, Austrian Empire (today Radauti, Romania) and came to the United States in 1898 on the Britannic from Liverpool with his mother and seven brothers and sisters. [1] His father had emigrated six months earlier. [2]

Gertrude Bohrer, daughter of Harry and Minnie Sokoloff Bohrer, was born in New York City. She and Harry Liebross married in Brooklyn on 25 June 1927.[3] They had five children: Marilyn, Cecile, Louise, Bertram and Stephen.

They are buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, New York in the Beth Talmud Torah plot, Block U, Section 4, Line 8, Graves 14 and 13.  

Notes:
1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 13 May 2009), manifest, Britannic, Liverpool to New York, arriving 1 July 1898, Libros, citing National Archives Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: 25; Lines: 20-28; Page Number: 2.

2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 5 September 2009), manifest, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Bremen to New York, arriving 23 December 1897, Leiser Lebros, citing National Archives Microfilm Roll: 11; Line: 4; Page Number: 107.
3. Kings County, New York, Certificate and Record of Marriage number 8883 (25 June 1927), Harry Liebross and Gertrude Bohrer, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.