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Show Doris N. Guss 7-9-84 Side 1, p 2 her mother had passed away and her father had remarried and she was heartbroken so she decided to leave. They were a big family and they had a bakery and when the father remarried, all the family, of course, lived there, and she felt that it was time for her to move on and let the others take over. And so consequently, she made the move along with dad and they came to New York. I think, at the time, this is only as it was told and I recall the story, and they met other couples who had also come from their area and around and were taken in by a very gracious Jewish couple who was a Rabbi, the man of the family was a Rabbi. And he married these young people and they lived - he gave them each a place where to live and my mother worked in a garment factory there in New York for awhile. I don't recall what my father did. I don't recall, but I remember mother saying that. And then when they moved to Chicago, uh, she gave birth to a girl and later a boy. And then a diptheria epidemic took both of them and then I was born. See, they were married in 1903 and I was born in 1909, so that's several years later and I had another sister who was born in Chicago and then my father, while in Chicago, was a painter. He learned the trade of painting buildings, you know, and homes and then one fine day he and an uncle of mine and three friends had read somewhere in Idaho. Well, not somewhere, in Dairy Creek, Idaho, the government was distributing a 160 acre per family of dry farming and all they had to do was come to apply and improve it within five years. So the five Jewish pioneers left Chicago to Idaho and we stayed until my father ••• L What years was that that he left? DG Beg pardon? |
