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Submitted by Barbara Lynn Horwitz

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 8/4/2021 12:55 PM
Family Surname: HORWITZ OR GUREVICH
Country: Lithuania
Town: OSZMIANY
Date of Image: possibly July 2015
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A DNA match of mine posted this picture of a gravestone on Ancestry.com and associated it with a Morris possibly Horwitz or Gurevich in her family tree. Neither of us can read it, so we don't know what names or other information are on it. Can someone help?

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8/5/2021 7:02 AM The only thing, possibly useful, that I can make out is that the tombstone refers to someone who is a Cohen-- of the priestly caste descended from Aaron.
8/8/2021 10:40 PM If a date of death can help.
It's in the month of Adar-II 5622 (March 1862).
However, I don't think it's either one of the names you mentioned.
It's not Horowitz, as it definitely has the sound ISH towards the end.
I don't think it's Gurevich, as the name seems to continue after the ISH sound, and I think it's a L before the ISH.

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