She was the youngest known child of Sarkis & Vartouhi Basmajian of Arapkir, Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. The English translation of her name is Elizabeth. Nothing is known about her life and her brother Haroutune did not relate anything about her to his family. The only reference to her is in a small family tree he wrote out with these birth and death dates. Her parents died of typhoid fever a week apart in 1892 when she was very young. She would have lived through the terrible Hamidian Massacres which struck Arapkir in the fall of 1895 and the family home was burned along with many other Armenian homes and businesses, and her oldest brother Dikran was shot and killed. The period that followed was a very difficult one of famine and disease, so it is possible that was the reason for Yeghisapet's death the following year but that cannot be confirmed. While the location of her burial cannot be confirmed, the Armenian Apostolic Christians of Arapkir were said to have been buried around the Sourp Asdvadzadzin Cathedral at the time, so she is listed there as a presumption.
She was the youngest known child of Sarkis & Vartouhi Basmajian of Arapkir, Turkey in the Ottoman Empire. The English translation of her name is Elizabeth. Nothing is known about her life and her brother Haroutune did not relate anything about her to his family. The only reference to her is in a small family tree he wrote out with these birth and death dates. Her parents died of typhoid fever a week apart in 1892 when she was very young. She would have lived through the terrible Hamidian Massacres which struck Arapkir in the fall of 1895 and the family home was burned along with many other Armenian homes and businesses, and her oldest brother Dikran was shot and killed. The period that followed was a very difficult one of famine and disease, so it is possible that was the reason for Yeghisapet's death the following year but that cannot be confirmed. While the location of her burial cannot be confirmed, the Armenian Apostolic Christians of Arapkir were said to have been buried around the Sourp Asdvadzadzin Cathedral at the time, so she is listed there as a presumption.
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