Abraham Moses Elfman - Identity Question

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Private User
yesterday at 9:29 AM

Find-a-Grave has Memorials for several people named Abraham Elfman buried in Massachusetts.

The Gravestone Photo attached to this photo clearly goes with this Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101907874/abraham-elfman
Hebrew on it shows him [Avraham Zvi] son of the revered [Yakov Vellvil]
And it looks like the Hebrew Name, and the info on birth, death, and burial on this Profile all come from that Memorial.
"Birth: November 22, 1888
Druskininkai, Druskininkai Municipality, Alytus County, Lithuania
Death: March 12, 1939 (50)
MA, United States of america
Place of Burial: Knights of Liberty Cemetery, Woburn, Middlesex , MA, United States of America"

Is there any possibility that all that info is wrong because the wrong Memorial was chosen?

I would like to suggest this is a much more likely Memorial for someone born around that time and named Abraham Moses Elfman:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227593339/abraham-m-elfman
Hebrew on it shows him [Avraham Moshe] son of the revered [Khaim Mendel]

Based on a Suggested Match to one of his family members - otherwise private to me - as well as the simple fact of his name, Abraham Moses Elfman correctly goes to the Memorial for [Avraham Moshe] not the Memorial for [Avraham Zvi]

Dr. Avi Zvi Rosenberg - do you mean it to be the Abraham Elfman with the wife and children attached to it, or to be the Abraham Elfman with Hebrew name [Avraham Zvi] who died in 1939?
You entered them and entered his name in English with dates shown for Birth and Death, and place of birth (as copied above).

Scott E. Nathan - tagging you as well since you worked on this profile - and are the one that actually added the Photo of his Gravestone, his Name in Hebrew (which is so at odds with his name in English), his place of birth and burial (as shown now, as copied above).

Private User
yesterday at 9:53 AM

I have uploaded a page from the 1939 Boston City Directory as a Document currently Public and tagged to him.

It includes
"[Elfman] Abr {Anna) died Mar 12, 1939"

That info matches the date we have for this Abraham.- but I do not believe it matches the wife.

A Geni Search on Abraham Elfman, wife = Anna
pulls up one and only one Profile: Abraham Harry Avraham Zvi Hirch Elfman

All claimed family to this Abraham connect thru his wife.

A Geni Search on Abraham Elfman, wife = Rose
pulls up this one and one managed by me that I do not want to merge with this one until I give folks a chance to weigh in on which identity this one should really have.

Private User
yesterday at 10:11 AM

The version I manage is: Abraham Moses Elfman

The one this discussion was started on and focuses on is listed first under Profiles Mentioned, is Abraham Moses Elfman

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