Family: Shlomo "Solomon Smith" Savilevics / Etta "Yetta" Devorah Romm (F14112)

• Father | Male Shlomo "Solomon Smith" Savilevics

  
  

  Born	Bef 1850	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Married
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Etta "Yetta" Devorah Romm

  
  

  Born	Abt 1849	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	Aft 1930	Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland
  Buried
  Father	Yehuda Laib Romm | F14121 Group Sheet
  Mother	Rella Krok | F14121 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Rachel Mina "Minnie" Smith

  
  

  Born	Abt 1872	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	25 Jan 1955	Baltimore County, Maryland
  Buried		Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland
  Spouse	Reuven "Reuben" Levine | F14109
  Married	Bef 1896	Russia

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Zanvil "Myer" Smith

  
  

  Born	31 Mar 1876	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	6 Jan 1944
  Buried		Anshe Neisen Cemetery, Rosedale, Baltimore County, Maryland
  Spouse	Anna Rubin | F14119
  Married	Abt 1901

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Celia Smith

  
  

  Born	15 Mar 1881	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	3 Jul 1969
  Buried		Anshe Neisen Cemetery, Rosedale, Baltimore County, Maryland
  Spouse	Benjamin Shapiro | F14120
  Married	Abt 1909	Baltimore County, Maryland

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Hyman Smith

  
  

  Born	15 Jul 1885	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire
  Died	18 Apr 1961	Tyler County, Texas
  Buried		Ahavath Achim Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County, Texas
  Spouse	Betty Katz | F14113
  Married	Bef 1910

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Daugher Rachel was a member of the B'nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Society membership and its associated family tree revolves around a woman named Rella Krok, who was born about 1833. Her father, Laibe Krok, was born in 1800. Laibe and his wife Rachel Krok lived in the tiny hamlet of Tselkay / Celkiai, just south of Rokisik / Roki?kis, a town in an area which today is in the northeastern part of the Republic of Lithuania. In the 1800s, the area was first in the Vilna Gubernya (province) and then in the Kovno Gubernya of the Russian Empire As U.S. census records and vital records related to this family shown places of birth as both Russia, Latvia, or Lithuania, it is assumed Savilevics/Smith family also originated in the Kovno Gubernia area of the Russian empire before their emigration to the United States, likely in Kupiskis, known in Yiddish as Kupishok, was home to 1,444 Jews before World War II. Today no Jews live in Kupiskis. Phil Shapiro wrote, in reference to the 1897 Rokiskis All-Russian Census that the census list, on page 4, shows a three-person household of Abram and Rella Abramovicz and Zavel Zavelevicz residing on Komaiskaya Street (Kamai Street). The Bnai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Society (BAYL), which was founded in Baltimore in 1901, consists of the descendants of the first and second husbands of Rella Krok, the daughter of Laibe Krok. The 1897 census identifies Rella as the daughter of "Leiba," age 64 and married to Abram Abramovicz, whose age is given as 63. According to the BAYL family tradition, Rella's second husband, who was known in the United States as Abraham Abramson, was said to have been a rabbi in Rokiskis for 25 years before coming to America. This appears to be consistent with the translation of the occupation given for Abram in the census of one who "makes Jewish symbolics." The third member of the household, "Zavel Zavelevicz," age 22, appears to be a grandson of Rella. The census states that Zavel was a capmaker who was born in Kupiskis and was the son of "Shloma." Rella's oldest daughter from her first marriage (to Yehuda Laib Romm) was Etta-Devara Romm. Etta-Devara married Shlomo Savilevics and lived in Kupiskis. At least one of Etta's children -- my grandmother Zlata Savilevics (Celia Smith Shapiro) -- often told the family that as a child she frequently stayed with her grandmother Rella. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Rokiskis/census.htm