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Fayga or Frances Yecht was the daughter of Isaac Yecht and Anya Resnick
her siblings included Toby Yecht Nelson and Malka Simma Yecht Schiff.
she was married to Nachman Wolf Cahn
They came to US from Lokacze, Ukraine

Descendants of Isaac Yecht
2 generations
derived from Joe Chandler's trees

1 Isaac Yecht b: in Russia/Ukraine
.. +Anya or Rosa Resnick
..... 2 David Yecht Robinson b: 05 May 1851 in Lokacze, Ukraine d: 21 Jul 1918 in Portland, Maine
......... +Etta Ida Hattie Lapides b: Abt. 1855 in Russia d: 18 Nov 1946 in Portland, Maine m: 1870 in Russia
*2nd Wife of Isaac Yecht:
.. +Anyeh Resnick b: in Russia/Ukraine
..... 2 David Yecht Robinson b: Abt. 1851 in Lokacze, Ukraine d: 21 Jul 1918 in Portland, Maine (alternative mother)
..... 2 Fayga Yecht b: Bet. 1850 - 1860
......... +Nachman Wolf Cahn

..... 2 Toby's half? Sister Rochel Leah Yecht d: Abt. 1881
......... +[1] Avram Michel Schleger/Nelson b: 1847 in Lokacze? d: Bef. 1921 m: Abt. 1868
..... 2 Malkah Simma Yecht b: Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Lutsk, Ukraine d: 31 Jan 1931 in Maine
......... +Mordechai Mendel Schiff b: Bet. 1851 - 1855 in Lutsk, Ukraine
..... 2 Taube/Tobie Yecht/Echt b: Bet. 1863 - 1868 in Lokacze, Ukraine d: 04 Nov 1932 in Maine
......... +[1] Avram Michel Schleger/Nelson b: 1847 in Lokacze? d: Bef. 1921 m: Abt. 1881
..... *2nd Husband of Taube/Tobie Yecht/Echt:
......... +Max Sacknoff b: Abt. 1856 d: 02 Nov 1933 m: 17 Sep 1924 in Portland, Maine

..... 2 Anne?
..... 2 Pesse? Robinson b: Abt. 1840
*3rd Wife of Isaac Yecht:
.. +Anyeh's sister Resnick
..... 2 Joseph Yosel Yecht Filler
......... +Toybeh Malka Baer
..... *2nd Wife of Joseph Yosel Yecht Filler:
......... +Yetta (Ethel) Baer


note on the Sacknoff family
My great grandmother Toby Yecht Nelson on September 17, 1924, in Portland, Maine, married Max Sacknoff. They were both widowed and as I understand the matter, it was a marriage of convenience. On January 1, 1933, Max's grandson Edward Donald Sacknoff married Eva Mae Cohen, Toby's grandniece. Toby died in November, 1932; Max, a year later.

Yecht Family Matrix

Joseph Chandler (1920-211, Portland, Maine)

My family of relatives was large on either side of Congress Street on the way to the Hebrew School. If I wished to stop, to mention a few possibilities, a couple of blocks on Munjoy Street were the Katzes; on Beckett Street were the Robinsons: Mendel (Max) and Meema Eeta; on Emerson Street were the Abrahamsons; on Morning Street were two Cohen families: Birsch--Dvora and Birsch's brother, Herman; diagonally across from Herman were the Tabachniks and down from them were the Abraham Robinsons; two blocks down Atlantic Street were the Greenbergs; the Lermans were a block off Congress on St. Lawrence Street; the Yoneh (Jonah - Sarah (one of the sisters of Becky, Rose, Eeta, and Esther ) Schwartz was on Wilmot Street; and the Baers were on Larch Street. Minnie and Max Cook were around the corner on Vesper Street.

You have to know that the families, Filler/Robinson, were large families, especially in the generation starting with the three brothers their immediate offspring, and the "in-law" families with whom they became associated. Besides the three original brothers, they had a sister, Malka Simmah, who married a Mordechai Schiff, and their daughter Bessie married Yossef Hirsch Nelson, the son of Malka's sister, Rochel (Michel Schleger's first wife). His mother was one of the Filler/Robinson sisters and she died in a fire. Rochel's child, Rivka, and her entire family of husband and their two children and their families of five and six people, respectively, were killed by the Nazis. One of Rochel's daughters, Chana (Anna), was married to the Rabbi Moshe Rokeach and they have an extensive family in the New York area. A sister of Chana's was named Pesse and she was the matriarch of our cousins, the Cook family. The last sister of the original Filler and Robinson triumvirate was Fayga (Francis is one translation). She married a Nachman Wolf Ca(h)n and became the matriarch of the Cohen family of cousins.

Sometimes during the [Passover] meal, but at least always by the time the meal was finished, Diddy (Edward) and Eva Sacknoff would visit. Eva was one of the daughters of Birsch and Dvora Cohen whom I mentioned above.


Joe Chandler's tree (zoom in)

Document Histories:

Bernard (Birsch) Cohen b 12/12/1873 Lokacze, Ukraine; d: 10/28/1958 Bangor, Maine  Hebrew name: Dov
+ Dora or Debora or Dorothy Cobolinsky or Covilla or Caville or Koble b c 1874; d: 1941 Bangor, ME


June 2, 1900: Portland Maine: Bernard, Deborah, and son and cousin Abram Crook (later Cook)!


July 21, 1935: Nathan Chandler and Rose Filler Chandler 25th Wedding Anniversary
Bernard was half first cousin once removed to both Nathan and Rose (who were cousins to one another)


December 1, 1936: Bernard Cohen SS Application: Place of Birth: Locach, Wolyn



FindAGrave

Herman Cohen b November 18, 1874 Russia; d:1/21/ 1952 gravestone: Tzvi, meaning deer, Yiddish Hersh
+ Rosie Ackerberg b: 16 Sep 1874, Warsaw; d: 3/23/1929, Portland, Maine; m c1901


David Cohen b c1879;
+ Yetta Rosenthal b c1881, m 2/22/1903, Brooklyn, NY

Max Cohen b c1882; d:
+ Celia b c 1893

Max Cohen was a witness to my grandfather Abraham Thorner's naturalization in NYC! Abe was married to Max's first cousin Rebecca (Becky) Nelson! Max's address matches 1910 & 1915 Censuses.

 

November 30, 1996 Carl Loeb interview of Bessie Robinson Loeb Bondy

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