Simon Gassenheimer

• Birth date/place in entry in record of births in Bibra Jewish Register. The fact that Simon entered Coburg as his place of birth in his passport application may be because his living relatives were in Coburg. (See M1923 Passport Application; see National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 1958; Volume #: Roll 1958 - Certificates: 165600-165975, 10 May 1922-10 May 1922)
• Identified as son of Samuel Gassenheimer in passport application cited above.
• Simon Gassenheimer left Germany, sailing to New York from Bremen, arriving on 06 July 1868 He settled in Montgomery, Alabama. Year: 1868; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Line: 44; List Number: 707
• Identified as the husband of Betty Levy, whom he married on 7 Feb 1883 in Montgomery, Alabama (Source: Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 [database on-line]. 2014.)
• Identified as father of Sylvian Gassenheimer (1884-5) in entry in FindaGrave database; see https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214091365/sylvian-gassenheimer
• Identified as the father of Juliette Gassenheimer in Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981 (Ancestry.com)
• Identified as husband of Maude Seligmann whom he married on 27 October 1896 in Montgomery Alabama. Simon and Maude had a daughter, Nettie Edith Gassenheimer, b. 1899.
• Death date/place in Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 [database on-line].

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