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Joseph Roller

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Zalishchyky, Zalishchyts'kyi district, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
Death: November 14, 1939 (74)
At Home - 11 Fourth St, Chelsea, Suffolk, MA, United States
Place of Burial: Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Mendel Roller and Rivka Roller
Husband of Rose Rassie Roller
Father of Doris Roller; Sherman Roller and Allen Benjamin Roller
Brother of Sara Roller; Witie Rosenbaum and Private

Occupation: Glazer
Managed by: Private User
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Immediate Family

About Joseph Roller

Joseph emigrated from Zaleszczyki, Rejon zaleszczycki, Obwód tarnopolski in 1897 (1900 Census), Ukraine (at the time in the Austria Hungary empire). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalishchyky. Family lore has the family passing through Vienna at some point, as there is a picture of Doris Roller labeled as taken in Vienna. The Hilfsverin in Vienna assisted Zaleshchiki's Jews, so it is possible that someone in Doris' family worked there.

Although Joseph's emigration documents list his place of birth as Zalisteca, Austria, if you listen to the phonetic pronunciation of https://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Zalishchyky, it matches. The town name is spelled differently depending on language: Zalishchyky (/zɑːliʃˈtʃiːki/ zaw-leesh-chee-kee; Ukrainian: Залiщики, Romanized: Zalishchyky), also spelled Zalischyky.

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Joseph Roller's Timeline

1865
January 1865
Zalishchyky, Zalishchyts'kyi district, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

--On his Nat. Petition he was born in Zalisteca Austria on the "------" of January ... 1865

--On his 1939 Death Record he was born Austria -- Father: Mendel Roller - b: Austria -- MN Mother: Rivka (cannot be learned) - b: Austria

1894
September 1894
Zaleszczyki, Rejon zaleszczycki, Obwód tarnopolski, Ukraine
1900
October 7, 1900
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States

--MVR Birth -- top is basically cut off, but can see bottom part of this line - Births Registered in the City of Boston For the Year Nineteen Hundred
-- # [950]6 -- [October] 7 -- Bennie Roller -- Place of Birth: 58 N. Margin -- Father: Joe -- MN Mother: Rose Meyer -- Res. Parents: Boston -- Occ. Father: Glazier -- both parents born Russia

1902
December 18, 1902
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States

--in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (per AncestryLibrary): Sherman Roller -- SSN ... -- Birth Date: 18 Dec 1902 -- Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts [Boston|] -- Death Date: 3 Sep 1994 -- Father: Joseph Roller -- Mother: Rose Myers -- U.S. Citizen

--MVR - Births Registered in the City of Boston For the Year 1902 - #12285 -
Dec 18 - Samuel Roller -- Place of Birth and Residence of Parents: 58 N Margin St, Boston -- Father: Joseph -- MN Mother: Rosie Myers -- Father's Occ.: Glazier -- Both Parents born Russia

1939
November 14, 1939
Age 74
At Home - 11 Fourth St, Chelsea, Suffolk, MA, United States

--"Index to Deaths in Massachusetts 1936-1940" includes Roller Joseph -- Town: Chelsea -- Year: 1939 -- Vol.: 33 - Page: 271 -- record has: Full Name: Joseph Roller -- Date of Death: November 14, 1939 -- Place of Death: County: Suffolk -- Chelsea -- 11 Fourth St. Chelsea (also equals residence) -- At Res.: 34 years -- In US: 42 years -- Husband of Rose Meyers -- Age 72 -- Glazer - Self-Employed -- b: Austria -- Father: Mendel Roller - b: Austria -- MN Mother: Rivka (cannot be learned) - b: Austria -- Informant: Rose Roller / 11 Fourth St, Chelsea -- Burial: Onikchty, Melrose, Mass - November 14, 1939 - Funeral Dir.: Morris L. Torf / 151 Washington Ave Chelsea [Cause of Death: Coronary thrombosis 11/7/39 - Arterio-sclerosis] [seen by L Lubin on 10/30/2018]

[did not see Death Notice in Boston Globe, Nov. 14-17, 1939]
According to JewishGen there is obit/DN in Jewish Advocate published 11/17/1939
JOWBR has entry

November 14, 1939
Age 74
Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States