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Borukh GEFEN
(1787-1854)
Sheina
(-)
Iovnash GEFEN
(1813-)
Dreza
(1814-)

Aria Tsvi GEFEN
(1830-1903)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Shifra KIER

Aria Tsvi GEFEN 2

  • Born: 1830, Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire 1 2
  • Marriage: Shifra KIER in 1855 in Russia 1
  • Died: Aug 18, 1903, Sioux City, Iowa at age 73 3 4
  • Buried: Mount Sinai Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa 4

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

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bullet  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

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bullet  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.


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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.)


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Sources


1 Sioux City, US Census, 1900.

2 Ukmerge Revision List of 1858.

3 Marjorie Goldberg.

4 Tombstone.

5 UKM-DIST-ALLTAXVOTERS.xls.

6 Hamburg.de.

7 All Lithuania Database.

8 Ellis Island database.

9 Photograph of AC Geffen in Hartford, Conn.

10 Bill Lucker.


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