Feigela Messing

Sources:

1. Her name was Hanna/Figle Messing on her son Henry's death certificate in the State of Missouri files. 2. Jewish Records Index for Poland cites a microfilm #743144, line 12, as evidence of a marriage of Józef Messing in 1838 in the town of Kalisz, Poland to Feigela Barchand. 3. Gostyn and Kalisz were both heavily populated by Jewish individuals in the 1800's and these two towns were about 75 km apart.