Samuel Wald was a poor Jewish immigrant from the town of Rohatyn, in the old Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. He emigrated, we think via Hamburg, to New York City, in 1893, at the age of five or six, possibly with his mother, Esther, and a sister, Rose. Their native language was Yiddish. According to his death certificate, Samuel's mother was named Esther Goldie Marks, and his father was Morris (Moshe/Moses) Nathan Wald (both buried at Mt. Zion, Queens).
Samuel Wald worked for the New York subway and train system his entire life. He was married twice: on 28 Feb 1911 to Nettie Klieger, with whom he had his only child, Sidney; and then after Nettie's death, to a woman we only knew by a first name, "Sadie."
Samuel died in Park West Hospital, Manhatten, of unknown causes, after a stay of 12 days. Family recollections attribute his death to a blood clot following prostate surgery. The burial was arranged by the Rohatyner Young Men's Society, a landsmannshaften organized for social and mutual aid in 1894; this group functioned at a burial society and has many interments at Mount Hebron in Flushing, New York.
The Hebrew on the grave marker gives Samuel's Hebrew name:
"Ze'elig bar Na'ata Moshe"
(thanks to Jackie Zev for the translation)
Samuel Wald worked for the New York subway and train system his entire life. He was married twice: on 28 Feb 1911 to Nettie Klieger, with whom he had his only child, Sidney; and then after Nettie's death, to a woman we only knew by a first name, "Sadie."
Samuel died in Park West Hospital, Manhatten, of unknown causes, after a stay of 12 days. Family recollections attribute his death to a blood clot following prostate surgery. The burial was arranged by the Rohatyner Young Men's Society, a landsmannshaften organized for social and mutual aid in 1894; this group functioned at a burial society and has many interments at Mount Hebron in Flushing, New York.
The Hebrew on the grave marker gives Samuel's Hebrew name:
"Ze'elig bar Na'ata Moshe"
(thanks to Jackie Zev for the translation)
Samuel Wald was a poor Jewish immigrant from the town of Rohatyn, in the old Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. He emigrated, we think via Hamburg, to New York City, in 1893, at the age of five or six, possibly with his mother, Esther, and a sister, Rose. Their native language was Yiddish. According to his death certificate, Samuel's mother was named Esther Goldie Marks, and his father was Morris (Moshe/Moses) Nathan Wald (both buried at Mt. Zion, Queens).
Samuel Wald worked for the New York subway and train system his entire life. He was married twice: on 28 Feb 1911 to Nettie Klieger, with whom he had his only child, Sidney; and then after Nettie's death, to a woman we only knew by a first name, "Sadie."
Samuel died in Park West Hospital, Manhatten, of unknown causes, after a stay of 12 days. Family recollections attribute his death to a blood clot following prostate surgery. The burial was arranged by the Rohatyner Young Men's Society, a landsmannshaften organized for social and mutual aid in 1894; this group functioned at a burial society and has many interments at Mount Hebron in Flushing, New York.
The Hebrew on the grave marker gives Samuel's Hebrew name:
"Ze'elig bar Na'ata Moshe"
(thanks to Jackie Zev for the translation)
Samuel Wald worked for the New York subway and train system his entire life. He was married twice: on 28 Feb 1911 to Nettie Klieger, with whom he had his only child, Sidney; and then after Nettie's death, to a woman we only knew by a first name, "Sadie."
Samuel died in Park West Hospital, Manhatten, of unknown causes, after a stay of 12 days. Family recollections attribute his death to a blood clot following prostate surgery. The burial was arranged by the Rohatyner Young Men's Society, a landsmannshaften organized for social and mutual aid in 1894; this group functioned at a burial society and has many interments at Mount Hebron in Flushing, New York.
The Hebrew on the grave marker gives Samuel's Hebrew name:
"Ze'elig bar Na'ata Moshe"
(thanks to Jackie Zev for the translation)
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