Friday, October 02, 2009
Nathan Goldfoot's Wife, Hattie Jerumulowske's dna
We sent for an mtDNA kit on September 28th for a first cousin to test for our female line of dna. It will be interesting to know if there is any connection with her being from Suwalki, Poland, and her husband, Nathan Goldfoot, who tested to be Q1b. Male and female dna are not connected in any way as far as where the dna is from in the cell or by the way they are listed. Jewish women's dna does have certain markers.
I do not know where Nathan was born other than "Russia" though most Goldfoot people we have found in searches came from Lithuania. Bubbie called herself a "Litvak". Parts of Poland had been in Lithuania at certain points in history.
Bubbie was terribly short and Nathan was seemingly tall. She had coal black curly curly hair and it looked like he had brown with possible reddish glints in it. They had two black haired children and two brown haired children. They looked as different as possible.
It must have been quite a love match as Bubbie never got over his accidental death at such an early age. Though she had other marriage proposals, she didn't take anyone up on them. I remember the candles lit on the death of his anniversary.
I think they met where they married in Council, Idaho. Bubbie was about 17 years old and had been living in a smaller adjacent mining town of Cuprum. She must have found work there doing something, what I have no idea! Cuprum (Latin for copper) is now a ghost town. In 1897 it had a post office built. They also built a hospital for the injured miners. I believe Bubbie lived there between 1903 and 1905 when she married Nathan in Council. It's best year was the next one of 1898. They thought the train would stop there but it never did.
Nathan must have stumbled into Council on the train that just began to go through the tiny mountain berg. There to his surprise he found a Jewish group made up of Bubbie's two sisters and their husbands. The husbands were merchants who came with good to trade and later were able to open a store. I don't think Bubbie had choices in finding a husband. There was one possibility in her life and it was Nathan. Tall, fair and handsome! Opposites attracted and they were married.
Reference: Cuprum, Idaho: http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/id/cuprum.html
I do not know where Nathan was born other than "Russia" though most Goldfoot people we have found in searches came from Lithuania. Bubbie called herself a "Litvak". Parts of Poland had been in Lithuania at certain points in history.
Bubbie was terribly short and Nathan was seemingly tall. She had coal black curly curly hair and it looked like he had brown with possible reddish glints in it. They had two black haired children and two brown haired children. They looked as different as possible.
It must have been quite a love match as Bubbie never got over his accidental death at such an early age. Though she had other marriage proposals, she didn't take anyone up on them. I remember the candles lit on the death of his anniversary.
I think they met where they married in Council, Idaho. Bubbie was about 17 years old and had been living in a smaller adjacent mining town of Cuprum. She must have found work there doing something, what I have no idea! Cuprum (Latin for copper) is now a ghost town. In 1897 it had a post office built. They also built a hospital for the injured miners. I believe Bubbie lived there between 1903 and 1905 when she married Nathan in Council. It's best year was the next one of 1898. They thought the train would stop there but it never did.
Nathan must have stumbled into Council on the train that just began to go through the tiny mountain berg. There to his surprise he found a Jewish group made up of Bubbie's two sisters and their husbands. The husbands were merchants who came with good to trade and later were able to open a store. I don't think Bubbie had choices in finding a husband. There was one possibility in her life and it was Nathan. Tall, fair and handsome! Opposites attracted and they were married.
Reference: Cuprum, Idaho: http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/id/cuprum.html
Labels: Council, Cuprum, Idaho, Jewish community, merchant, train stop
