Abraham Simon Shedroff

1857 - 1926  (69 years)

• Name	Abraham Simon Shedroff  [1]
  Birth	1857	Drogichin, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	05 Sep 1926	Chicago, IL, USA   [1, 2]
  	He died from injuries received on August 6, when an automobile in which he was riding near Michigan City, Indiana, turned turtle after being forced off the road in a traffic jam.
  Burial	Aft 06 Sep 1926	Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, Drohitchin section, gate 48, lot 23, section 2, row 23, grave 5, Forest Park, IL, USA   [3]
  	His Hebrew name is given as Avraham Shimon bar R' Yakov Eliezer and his age as 69. His English name is listed as Abraham Shedroff in the Waldheim records.
  Person ID	I3100	Rodevensky
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2011

  
  

  Father	Lazer (Yaakov Eliezer) Shedrovitsky,   b. Antopol, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 1900, probably Drogichin, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus
  Mother	Sheina Zippa Valevalska,   b. 1830, Drogichin, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 01 Nov 1887, Drogichin, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1845	Drogichin, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F1498	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Basha (Bessie Borinstein) Perlstein,   b. 1856, probably Antopol, Kobrin district, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 24 Nov 1913, Maimonides Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1873  [1]
  Children	1. Ben (Eliyahu Ber) Shedroff,   b. 22 Sep 1878, Drogichin, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 01 Sep 1950, Chicago, IL, USA (Age 71 years)   2. Louis Aaron (Arye Leib) Shedroff,   b. 22 Nov 1882, Brest Litovsk (Bereza), Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 20 Nov 1965, Chicago, IL, USA (Age 82 years)   3. Julius (Zelig) Shedroff,   b. 15 Sep 1888, Drogichin, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia now Belarus d. 18 Dec 1918, Norwood Park, Cook, IL, USA (Age 30 years)   4. Esther Zipa Shedroff,   b. 01 Jan 1893, Buffalo, NY, USA d. 07 Aug 1915, Chicago, IL, USA (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F1178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Bella (Belle) Horwitz,   b. Abt 1871, Russia
  Marriage	25 Apr 1914	Chicago, IL, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F1518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014

  
  

• Sources

  [S108] Neil Rosenstein, The Unbroken Chain, (CIS Publishers, New York, London, Jerusalem, 1990). [S105] Chicago Tribune, Issue for Sep. 6, 1926, "Son of Zionist Official Killed in Motor Crash", p. 5. [S55] Tombstone. [S106] George I. Sackheim, Scattered Seeds, (1986). [S12] Conversations with family.