What was happening .......?

By yoellie
  • Period: to

    Bush / Frumhoff Historical Timeline

  • Birth of Irmia REST (approximate

  • American Declaration of Independence

  • Birth of Mikhel REST

  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth divides

    Three divisions: Prussia, Russia, Austria. Most of Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire.

  • Birth of Ovsey Yehoshuah REST

  • Sewing Machine Patented by Elias Howe

  • Plunge, Lithuania 1847: 2,197 Jews living there.

  • Birth of Fruma KIRSHNER (SCHNEIDER)

  • Birth of David Gaushevitz REST

    Plunge, Lithuania

  • Marriage of David REST and Fruma KIRSHNER

    Plunge, Lithuania

  • David, Fruma and children living in Libau, Latvia

    Arrived sometime between 1880 and 1886. David is a shoemaker.

  • David Rest travels to South Africa

    Reportedly, David and a brother/cousin traveled to South Africa. The brother/cousin settled there and David returned to Lithuania before coming to America.

  • Boer War in South Africa 1899-1902

    1899-1902
    One family story says that David returned to Lithuania because of the outbreak of the Boer War. Another-- because Fruma did not want to live there!

  • David, Fruma and children come to America! Grandma Sophie included.

    They landed in Portland, Maine aboard the Numidian.

  • Lithuanian Independence