Aria Tsvi GEFEN ²

   Other names for Aria were Arya Tsvi GEFEN, Arie GEFFEN, Aryei GEFFEN and A C GIFFIN.

  General Notes:

Four children, including John and Shmuyla, died before 1900.

The Hamburg.de site has Aria's age as 50 in July of 1892. ^{1 6}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, May 26, 1858, Ukmerge, Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ⁷

• Box Taxpayer, 1877, Ukmerge, Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ⁷ "Arya" was not poor.

• Beneficiary, After Apr 15, 1881, Ukmerge, Lithuania. ^{6 7} Aria was a beneficiary of the will of Shimel David Gefen.

• Emigration, 1892, Ukmerge, Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ⁶

• Embarkation, Jul 21, 1892, Hamburg. ⁶ Aria sailed on the SS Warrington under the British flag.

• Port of call, Jul 1892, Grimsby, England. ⁶

• Arrival, Jul 1892, Liverpool, England. ⁶

• Embarkation: Liverpool, England. ^{6 8} "Arie" sailed on the SS City of Berlin. The Ellis Island website has the family indexed under "Geffes." Aria's age is given as 50. This agrees with the Hamburg data.

• Immigration, Aug 5, 1892, Ellis Island, New York. ⁸

• Residence: Hartford, Connecticut. ⁹

• Residence, Jun 21, 1900, 311 W. 7th Street, Sioux City, Iowa. ¹ Aria was a fruit peddler. ED #176, sheet 30B.

Aria married Shifra KIER, daughter of John KIER and Unknown, in 1855 in Russia.¹ (Shifra KIER was born in 1832 in Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire,⁷ died on Mar 23, 1910 in Sioux City, Iowa ¹⁰ and was buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa ³.)