Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hattie Jermulowske DNA Received
The wife of Nathan Goldfoot was Hattie Jermulowske, our grandmother. Her DNA was received today in familytreedna in Houston, Texas. It'll probably take a few months for a result and then we'll find out what haplogroup she belonged to. This is very exciting for me. It's like a toss of the die. What will it turn out to be? I have my bets down. Hattie was an extremely short person, about 4'7 or 8" tall. She had had her leg or legs broken in Poland from some reason or other, either an accident or pogrom. She had black very curly hair and rather swarthy complexion. Her daughter, Elsie, carried on her coloring and also had the curly coal black hair, brown eyes.
So did her son, Charlie, while the other two children had the coloring of their father, Nathan with lighter brown but wavy hair. I believe that Hattie's father, Charles, probably had black curly hair.
Hattie came from Suwalki, Poland, as we gather. Her own mother had died young and her father, Charles Jermulowske, had remarried. More children were born who were her half brothers and sisters. I think her own mother was Esther, and that's why one of Hattie's daughters was named Elsie, or Essie in Yiddish. Hattie's other full siblings were Louis, Jenny and Bessy. At least their birthdates made this seem logical. Charles then remarried I think Dora Leah "Deborah" and had three more children; Lily, Charles and Alice. I remember Aunt Alice and her husband, Uncle Max well. They were my father's uncle and aunt and my great uncle and great aunt. They lived in Portland, Oregon and we attended a Passover Seder at their home.
Hattie was found in Council, Idaho marrying our grandfather on November 20, 1905. I can only imagine that the terrain was much like what she left in Poland, but am not really sure. Hopefully there she was also a rural person. However, as soon as her first child, Charles, was born, she and her husband, Nathan, moved to the big city of Portland, Oregon, probably for work prospects and also to be near a synagogue.
They moved to the South section of Portland, which is now "Old south Portland, where the Jews and the Italians settled. They did live within walking distance of a synagogue, the Mead Street Synagogue on First and Mead Streets.
Unfortunately, Nathan was killed in an accident in 1912 and Hattie was left alone to raise four teeny children without any help. She never did learn to speak English, only her native Yiddish. There were some Jewish organizations that helped out a little, but nothing in the city of Portland at that time in history. She was really on her own.
I often wonder who the 2nd wife of Charles was. Was she a sister of Hattie's real mother? If a woman dies, it was the custom to marry the next sister if she was unmarried.
So did her son, Charlie, while the other two children had the coloring of their father, Nathan with lighter brown but wavy hair. I believe that Hattie's father, Charles, probably had black curly hair.
Hattie came from Suwalki, Poland, as we gather. Her own mother had died young and her father, Charles Jermulowske, had remarried. More children were born who were her half brothers and sisters. I think her own mother was Esther, and that's why one of Hattie's daughters was named Elsie, or Essie in Yiddish. Hattie's other full siblings were Louis, Jenny and Bessy. At least their birthdates made this seem logical. Charles then remarried I think Dora Leah "Deborah" and had three more children; Lily, Charles and Alice. I remember Aunt Alice and her husband, Uncle Max well. They were my father's uncle and aunt and my great uncle and great aunt. They lived in Portland, Oregon and we attended a Passover Seder at their home.
Hattie was found in Council, Idaho marrying our grandfather on November 20, 1905. I can only imagine that the terrain was much like what she left in Poland, but am not really sure. Hopefully there she was also a rural person. However, as soon as her first child, Charles, was born, she and her husband, Nathan, moved to the big city of Portland, Oregon, probably for work prospects and also to be near a synagogue.
They moved to the South section of Portland, which is now "Old south Portland, where the Jews and the Italians settled. They did live within walking distance of a synagogue, the Mead Street Synagogue on First and Mead Streets.
Unfortunately, Nathan was killed in an accident in 1912 and Hattie was left alone to raise four teeny children without any help. She never did learn to speak English, only her native Yiddish. There were some Jewish organizations that helped out a little, but nothing in the city of Portland at that time in history. She was really on her own.
I often wonder who the 2nd wife of Charles was. Was she a sister of Hattie's real mother? If a woman dies, it was the custom to marry the next sister if she was unmarried.
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