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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 6/14/2026 4:26 PM
Family Surname: Cohen and Ankeles
Country: USA
Town: Lynn, Massachusetts

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Hyman Cohen (b. 1893) was my mother’s uncle, and he is my grand uncle. His mother was Ida (Klickstein) Cohen, and his father was David Cohen - my great grandparents. They were born and married in Russia. They migrated to the United States in 1895 with their four children and then lived in the Boston area. These family members appear in my Gilman-Stanger Family tree on Ancestry.com. Unfortunately for me there were many Hyman Cohens living in Massachusetts in the 20th century. I believe that the Hyman Cohen who is buried in the Pride of Lynn Cemetery with his wife Rose Ankeles (whose maiden name I remember from my youth) may be my relative. For that reason, a translation of the inscriptions on the uploaded headstone image (from the Find a Grave record) would help solve this mystery. If the given name of this Hyman Cohen’s father is not David, he is not my grand uncle.

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6/14/2026 5:03 PM

Hyman's name is given as CHAIM son of Avraham Mordechai. You were hoping to see a David. Therefore, it may seem that this is not the correct person. However, keep in mind that there are no rules saying that a person's secular and religious names must correspond. I have seen many cases where the secular and religious names are completely different from each other. (For example, Hyman's father might have been named "David" secularly, after one ancestor, and "Avraham Mordechai" religiously, after a different ancestor. I realize that there are many Hyman Cohens, and that Rose is a very common name, but you cannot rule this one out based just on the name. The dates might be a better clue.

Rose's maiden name is not given. Her father was Shlomo Zalman, which is Hebrew and Yiddish, respectively, for Solomon. Again, his secular name might not have been Solomon, but if it happened to have been Solomon Ankeles, then this would be a reasonable clue. Again, death certificates might provide better answers.

ViewMate Posting VM 114705

Submitted by Bernard Gilman

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Submitted by Bernard Gilman