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- “my mother told me that my [Carrie Miller’s] great-grandmother Rebecca’s parents were traveling notions salespeople, i.e. they had a cart with needles, thread,scissors, etc. and travelled the countryside, selling their wares. And just as an aside, the way I heard it, Rebecca refused every shittach presented to her. My great-grandfather had been educated in philology at the University in Heidelberg. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was handsome, so Rebecca finally consented to the match. As the story was told to me, when my great-grandparents were in the 70’s, the kids all grown up, Rebecca told her husband she couldn’t live with him any more and my grandmother Fannie had to find him a room. He died a few years later; some say of heartbreak.” [2]
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Our Family History
d. 1895, Grodno, Russia