Born in Lithuania, Russian Empire
Daughter of Abraham Sachs
and Sarah R (Young) Sachs
Sister of
Yetta (Sachs) Toby, Harry J Sachs, Elizabeth Sachs, David Sachs, Abram Sachs and Joseph Calvin Sachs
Wife of
Joseph M Himelfarb
— married
23 Jun 1901 in Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Norman (Himelfarb) Warren
Died
at age 27
in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Jul 2013
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Timeline
1881, April: Bessie is born in Lithuania[1] to Abraham and Sarah Sachs.
1890: Bessie's father Abraham immigrates to America.
1893: Bessie, age 12, arrives in America with most of her siblings and presumably her mother.
1900: At the time of the census Bessie's mother has passed away and she is living in Cincinnati with her father and siblings. She works as a cigar maker.[2] Perhaps she met Joseph Himelfarb through the cigar business.
1901, June 23rd: Bessie marries Joseph M Himelfarb in Hamilton County, Ohio.
1903, April 30th: Bessie's first and only child, Norman Warren Himelfarb, is born.
1908, November 6th: Bessie passes away from Grave's Disease at the age of 27. She is buried in the Walnut Hills United Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, Hamilton, Ohio.
Sources
- 1900 US Federal Census
- "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XST8-JYY : accessed 16 Nov 2013), Harry J Sachs, Chicago (Districts 0251-0500), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0255, sheet , family 454, NARA microfilm publication .
Footnotes
- ↑ On the 1930 Census her brother Harry gives his and his parents' birthplace as Lithuania
- ↑ 1900 Census
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Adrienne Alair for creating Sachs-91 on 23 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Adrienne and others.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bessie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bessie:
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~6.25%
~12.50%
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