Rachel (Ray) Gittel Blum

Data thanks to extensive research made by Shirley Saunders. Some of the sources are listed below:

Passengers list of first class, ship sailing from Southampton, arriving March 1895 at the Port of New York: The husband and wife are named Asher and Rachel Blum. They were sailing with Alexander (age 16), Moinie (age 11), Fannie (age 8) and a baby named Levi (4 months old).

Birth document for Mariam/Mary, first child of Asher and Rachel born in USA, in Charleston, South Carolina in April 1895, mother is listed as Rachel Jackobi.

On the US army draft information for WWI, Louis Arnold Blum, son of Asher Blum, was born in March 1893 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Turkey.