Note: WorldConnect family trees will be removed from RootsWeb on April 15, 2023 and will be migrated to Ancestry later in 2023. (More info)

Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Anna Kempler: Birth: 29 APR 1904 in New York, New York, NY. Death: JUN 1973 in Syosset, Nassau, NY

  2. Sadie Gertrude Kempler: Birth: 29 MAR 1906 in New York, New York, NY. Death: 12 FEB 2003 in Guilderland, Albany, NY

  3. Joseph Kempler: Birth: 2 APR 1908 in New York, New York, NY. Death: APR 1976 in Long Beach, Nassau, NY

  4. Person Not Viewable


Sources
1. Title:   Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 6 Jul 1907, Declaration of Intention for Hyman Kempler
2. Title:   City of New York Department of Health, Certificate of Birth for Hyman Kempler (9 Feb 1959)
3. Title:   Bureau of the Census, 1910 Census for 19th Ward of New York, New Yor, NY. ED #1036. (17 Apr 1910)
Page:   166
4. Title:   Bureau of the Census, 1920 Census for New York, New York, NY (16 Jan 1920)
Page:   13
5. Title:   Bureau of the Census, 1930 Census for Bronx, Bronx, NY (Apr 1930)
Page:   11
6. Title:   New York City Telephone Directory (1904/1905)
7. Title:   New York City Telephone directory (1905/1906)
8. Title:   New York City Telephone directory (1910/1911)
9. Title:   New York City Telephone directory (1915/1916)
10. Title:   New York City Telephone directory (1920/1921)
11. Title:   City of New York Department of Health, Certificate of Death for Jennie Kempler (10 Aug 1946)
12. Title:   New York State Census 1915
13. Title:   Sally DAMESEK, Interviews with Sally DAMESEK (16 Dec 1996 and 29 Mar 1997)

Notes
a. Note:   an to call himself Herman to sound more American. He spoke Polish, German, Yiddish, a little Hungarian and some rather "atrocious" English (004).
  Grandma said Hyman was very artistic. Grandma, a professional cellist herself, says Hyman played the violin very well even though he could not read music. Sally said Hyman could hear something by Jascha Heifetz just once and play it well. He could paint any object so that it looked like wood, grains and all, and could make it look like walnut or cherry or whatever they wanted. Apparently his house painting could be rather artistic as well. He was once hired to paint a ceiling and spontaneously painted a flying bluebird in the comer, then another and another until he had covered the whole ceiling with flying bluebirds. When the lady who hired him saw what he had done, she screamed, so he promised to paint the ceiling over but she liked it and would not let him. She showed off her ceiling to the neighborhood. The woman had been very lonely. Her ceiling became a neighborhood attraction. Herman's phone did not stop ringing that night because all of the people who visited the lady's house to view the ceiling then wanted their ceiling painted, but Hyman would not do it again. Grandma says her father did more than simply paint a ceiling. He brought a lonely woman friends and changed her whole life.
  Hyman's had a fondness for animals and would bring many home, especially birds. He liked to sketch flying bluebirds while talking on the phone. Hyman owned a minorbird and also bred and sold canaries (he owned over 30 of them). Grandma once said he was sent out to buy an overcoat and came home with a parrot. My mother remembers that the bird liked to sleep with a blanket over its cage to make it dark. If you forgot to put his blanket on, he would whisper, "Goodnight, goodnight ..." until you did. Hyman loved to play practical jokes and Clap ladies' asses." Grandma said Jennie told her that Hyman had threatened to kill himself unless Jennie married him.
  Grandma says her father was a very uneducated man but very artistic. He did not know who Michelangelo was, but loved birds and painted beautiful ceilings. He remarried two years after Jennie died, but was "alone soon after." Grandma was not specific as to what happened.
  Grandma said Hyman remarried two years after Jennie died, but he was soon living alone again.
Note:   According to Grandma Sally, it was about 1915 when her father Hyman beg
b. Note:   Today, Podegrodzie is in Nowy Sacz Province in Poland.
c. Note:   el on the Lower East Side. The informant on the death certificate was Hyman's son, Joseph KEMPLER, but some of the information that he provided was incorrect. Hyman did not live at 1144 Stratford Avenue in da Bronx for 50 years. He was not 78 but a week short of 80. He was born in Austria, not Poland. He knew his mother and father.
Note:   Hyman died at a nursing home called Home of Son's and Daughters of Isra
d. Note:   Living at East 80th St
e. Note:   Living at 585 East 84th Street
f. Note:   Residing at 1150 Lawrence St (off White Plains Road).
g. Note:   el in NYC, and did not know her in Austria. She says that they married on July 5 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan a year after Jennie came over. The 1915 New York State Census reports Jennie had been in the US for 14 years. This would likely make the year of her emigration 1901 and, if Sally was right, they were married 5 July 1902.
Note:   The date is an estimate. Grandma Sally says her father Hyman met Scheid


RootsWeb.com is NOT responsible for the content of the GEDCOMs uploaded through the WorldConnect Program. The creator of each GEDCOM is solely responsible for its content.