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Name:
Fayge Etta PEARLSTINE
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1841
Trzcianne, Podlaskie, Poland
Death:
Aug 25, 1856 (age 14-15)
at sea on trip to US
Left Trestina in fall of 1855, after Sukkoh but before Hanukah.
Reached Stavicks and Gryeevy but had to turn back until spring
(Pesach). Sailed from Liverpool England in summer of 1856 with mother
Sarah, sisters Lena, Miriam Rose, Sarah, brothers Louis C and Samuel
Wolff (sp), Louis's son --who died enroute to the ship in Berlin--,
uncle Jacob. Died at sea after eating grain laced with rat poison.
Wrapped in clean white sheet and dropped overboard, weighted by large
rocks.
Bio from "aunt" Lena's diary.