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Chevra Machziskei Tefila Anshei Stuchiner at Bayside Cemetery

Started by Seth Morgulas on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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Seth Morgulas C
5/14/2013 at 5:55 AM

Hello,
I recently found the grave of my great great grandfather Abraham Spies located at Bayside Cemetery in Queens, New York. I previously had no idea what town he or his wife Bechia Cohen were from. However, Abraham is buried in the Chevra Machziskei Tefila Anshei Stuchiner section of the cemetery and his name is listed on the Museum of Family History website as a surname found in the section. There seem to be few records for the cemetery left and I have not received calls back from the congregation that owns the cemetery to see if that burial society turned its records over to them. The cemtery has been the subject of a long lawsuit and was badly desecrated over the years. In this section of the cemetery, like many others, gravestones have been overturned and it is badly overgrown. I have arranged to have some of the stones in the section picked up and put back on their pedestals and I am planning on going to the cemetery next Tuesday to try to spruce the section up a bit. However, more germane to this group, I am planning on taking my camera and ipad and photographing the stones in the section while I look for Bechia. I don't know if there will be time to do it all, but if anyone on this group is looking for someone in that section please let me know and I will make it a priority to check (you can respond privately). Also if anyone is interested in assisting please also let me know.
Hatte Blejer on hiatus C
5/14/2013 at 9:09 PM

That's excellent. The expert on Szczuczyn is Jose Gutstein. If you photograph graves you might share with him. He has a lot of info on the families of this town. I can introduce you if you want.
Seth Morgulas C
5/15/2013 at 5:52 AM

Hatte, yes, thank you. That would be great. I emailed him on Sunday but had not gotten a response yet.
Hatte Blejer on hiatus C
5/16/2013 at 9:27 PM

Seth Morgulas - go ahead and send me your email in Geni email and I'll introduce you two.

I was in Szczuczyn last June and didn't know where to find the cemetery (destroyed) or Jewish houses, but with my iPhone got up Jose's great site and he had a detailed map of Szczuczyn.
Seth Morgulas C
5/21/2013 at 9:49 AM

Ok, all photographed. In all 119 images. However, 5 are all in Hebrew so if there is someone I can email those 6 to for identification that would be great. There are a few others that are too badly worn to be legible. I will put them all on findagrave.com but if anyone wants the collection or wants an uncropped photo that shows the horrible condition of the cemetery please let me know. Surnames include (in no particular order):
Amer
Aronson
Brown
Finkelstein
Horowitz
Karmin
Seligson
Spies
Weiser
Gold
Schatz
Newman
Dembovitz
Cohen
Minksy
Goldstein
Yashenofsky
Fink
Gordon
Friedman
Feinberg
Lewis
Rosenzweig
Hershofsky
Levine
Armour
Bogus
Ruck
Rokowitz
Josephson
Boorstein
Kwint
Chestman
Kronenberg
Curzan
Rothbell
Tuttelman
Amer
Edelson
Levy
Simon
Mishkowsky
Brody
Weinreb
Greshow
Wirsbufsky
Krackow
Gomsen
Greengrass
Hatte Blejer on hiatus C
5/21/2013 at 1:14 PM

Private User will be interested in the Mishkowsky grave, if he isn't already aware of it. His family is from nearby Grajewo, so this is likely his relative.

Go ahead and send me the Hebrew gravestone images. If I cannot read them fully, I'll enlist someone else.
Seth Morgulas C
5/21/2013 at 3:35 PM

There is a:
Solomon Mishkofsky d. Jan 15, 1904
William Mishkofsky d. Mar 30, 1903
Yetta Mishkofsky b. Dec 10 1864 d. Jan 5, 1948
Lena Mishkofsky d. Sep 27, 1910 age 17
Hatte Blejer on hiatus C
5/21/2013 at 6:11 PM

Thanks! I send the information to Hank.

Private User
5/21/2013 at 6:16 PM

Thanks Hatte and Seth.

I've known about the Myszkowskis in Szczuczyn for some time, I've assumed that they were somehow related to my Myszkowski ancestors in Grajewo and Przerosl but I've never actually been able to establish any kind of relationship.

I think I've run into some descendents of the Szczuczyn Myszkowski family over the years, I'll have to check my archives to see if I can track them down, they might be interested in your photos. (Do you have a URL where I can find them online?)
Seth Morgulas C
5/21/2013 at 7:15 PM

Hank, not yet. I am in the process of uploading them to findagrave.com. They will be under the Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park Queens. I hope to be done in a couple of days. I just took the photos today. I am happy to email the four of them to you though.

Private User
5/22/2013 at 5:40 AM

I appreciate the email offer Seth -- but if you'll just post the URL here when you've uploaded the photos, that would be all I'd need. Thanks!!
Seth Morgulas C
5/22/2013 at 8:29 AM

Lena: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110962715
Solomon: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110962675
Yetta:http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110962699
William: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110962684

Private User
5/26/2013 at 5:51 PM

Cool, thanks!
Seth Morgulas C
3/26/2014 at 8:56 AM

The restoration of Gate 8 of Bayside Cemetery continues. I was able to have seven more stones put back in place this weekend and there are only seven left to do- I think I will be able to get them done by the end of April. I will post photos of this group of seven to findagrave by the end of this weekend and if there are any new surnames (some of the stones were toppled on their fronts so could not be identified before) I will list them here
Hatte Blejer on hiatus C
3/26/2014 at 9:30 AM

Fantastic work Seth Morgulas.

Private User
3/29/2014 at 5:28 PM

Hi, I'm very late in responding to this, but I just noticed that you found a Tuttelman grave at Bayside cemetery. I couldn't find it on findagrave, but was it Meyer Tuttelman, my second great uncle who was born in Sczcuczyn, or his second wife Pauline Tuttelman (both were buried at Bayside) or was it someone else? Also, have you found anyone named Marcus since you posted that list? Some of my Markus relatives were from Grajewo, which I think is in the same burial society. Thanks so much!
Seth Morgulas C
3/30/2014 at 1:32 PM

Hi Charles,

Here is the link for Meyer Tuttleman:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=81&GS...;

i will check for the others
Seth Morgulas C
3/30/2014 at 1:34 PM

I don't have any othe Tuttlemans or any Marcus' yet but I do have a couple of all Hebrew stones that I haven't identified yet and it is possible that some of the remaining ones may be face forward and when they get picked up we will see who is on them.

Private User
3/30/2014 at 6:05 PM

Much appreciated!
Seth Morgulas C
4/3/2014 at 6:20 AM

These are three of the repaired gravestones. The two Finklesteins were already known. CIlly Jakowsky is a new name and there is another all in Hebrew that I am awaiting translation to add.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111002145
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111002106
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=127339914

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