Rachel Mina "Minnie" Smith

Abt 1872 - 1955  (~ 83 years)

• Name	Rachel Mina "Minnie" Smith  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Nickname	Minnie
  Born	Abt 1872	Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Died	25 Jan 1955	Baltimore County, Maryland   [2]
  Buried	Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland   [2]
  Notes	In 1930, the family lived on Cottage Avenue in Baltimore. Rachel's mother, 80 year old Yetta SCHMIDT, born in Russia of Russian parents was living with the family. Obituary Baltimore Sun, January 26, 1955 LEVINE-On January 25, 1955, RACHAEL MINNIE, beloved wife of the late Reuben Levine of 3700 Cottage avenue; beloved mother of Mrs. Tillie Solomon and Mrs. Edith Moss, Solomon J., Samuel and Miss Ruth Levine; sister of Hyman Smith, or Tyler, Texas; Mrs. Celia Shapiro, of Baltimore. Also survived by ten grandchildren and then great-grandchildre. [Washington (D.C.) papers please copy.] Funeral form Sol Levinson & Bros. Home, 1124-26 West North avenue, on Wednesday, January 26, at 2 P.M. Interment in B'nai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Southern avenue. [Please omit flowers.] In mourning at 3700 Cottage avenue. LEVINE-Ahavas Sholom Congregation and Ladies Auxiliary, 126 South Poppleton street, deeply regrets the passing of Mrs. RACHEL MINNIE LEVINE, beloved mother of our treasurer, Solomon J. Levine. All officers and members please attehd funeral services at Sol Levinson & Bros. Home, 1124-26 West North avenue, on Wednesday at 2 P.M. Solomon Silverstein, President, Samuel H. Wachter, Secretary. LEVINE-B'nai Abraham Yehuda Laib Family Societ deeply regrets to announce the deaht of our beloved member, RACHEL MINNIE LEVEIN. All officers and members please attehd funeral services at Sol Levinson & Bros. Home, 1124-26 West North avenue, on Wednesday at 2 P.M LEVINE-Sarah, Minnie and Meyer Baer Levine Family Circle deeply regrets to announce the deaht of our beloved member, RACHEL MINNIE LEVEIN. All officers and members please attehd funeral services at Sol Levinson & Bros. Home, 1124-26 West North avenue, on Wednesday at 2 P.M (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, August 2018) Her tombstone was inscribed MOTHER LEVINE Rachel Mina bat r. Shlomo d. 2 Shevat 5715 Age 84 (Research):The B'nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Society website, founded in Baltimore in 1901 by relatives of Yehuda Laib Romm and Rabbi Abraham Abramson, and believed to be the oldest Jewish Family society in the world. They held their 115th anniversary reunion on Labor Day weekend 2016. Tillie Levine, Mamie Yatovitz, Rachel Silver Snovsky and Henna Ginsburg became members in 1912. 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. Prior to 1795, the area was part of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. There is evidence that Laibe Krok's ancestors lived in this area at least as early as 1760. The family tradition states that Laibe and Rachel "were good citizens, religious in their observance of Mosaic Law, and liberal in their outlook on life. Laibe Krok was a wine merchant and the owner of a distillery. He was a philanthropist of no mean repute." Rella was one of Laibe and Rachel's six children. In 1847 Rella married Yehuda Laib Romm of Ponidel / Pandelys. Yehuda Laib was a widower with one child, Mari Leah Romm. Yehuda Laib and Rella had seven children together. After the death of Yehuda Laib, Rella married Rabbi Abraham Abramson, who was a sofer in Rakisik and a nephew of Yehuda Laib's first wife. Abraham was a widower who had had seven children with his first wife, Chana Brina. Upon marrying Abraham, Rella was the mother or step-mother of a total of fifteen children. Rella and Abraham Abramovitz were recorded in the 1897 All-Russia Census as living on Kamai street (today, Respublikos gatve) in Rakisik. Fourteen years after they married, Rella died and Abraham came to America . According to family tradition, Abraham had served Roki?kis as Chief Rabbi for 25 years before coming to America. As of the BAYL's 100th Anniversary, in 2001, the family tree, tracing the descendants of Rella and her siblings and the descendants of her two husbands from their first marriages, spanned nine generations over more than 200 years, contained more than 3200 names. Today, descendants live in many of the United States, as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Israel, and South Africa.
  Person ID	I47229	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Shlomo "Solomon Smith" Savilevics,   b. Bef 1850, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Etta "Yetta" Devorah Romm,   b. Abt 1849, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. Aft 1930, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland  (Age ~ 82 years)
  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
  Family ID	F14112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Reuven "Reuben" Levine,   b. 15 Feb 1870, Ponevezh, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. 28 Jun 1949  (Age 79 years)
  Married	Bef 1896	Russia   [6]
  Children	1. Tillie Levine,   b. 29 Dec 1896, Ponevezh, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. 27 Mar 1970  (Age 73 years)   2. Solomon J. Levine,   b. 10 Jun 1898, Ponevezh, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. 5 Nov 1984, Baltimore County, Maryland  (Age 86 years)   3. Samuel David Levine,   b. 15 Apr 1900, Ponevezh, Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire ,   d. 26 Mar 1965  (Age 64 years)   4. Ruth Levine,   b. Abt 1907, Baltimore County, Maryland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Edith Levine,   b. 16 Mar 1909, Baltimore County, Maryland ,   d. May 1996  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F14109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1872 - Kovno Gubernia, Russian Empire Married - Bef 1896 - Russia Died - 25 Jan 1955 - Baltimore County, Maryland Buried - - Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland  = Link to Google Earth
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