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Husband: Saleem BOALBEY
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   Name: Hanna Abou OLBE (1)
   Born: DEC 1885                  in Ine Isha'ara, Syria (2)
Married: about 1918                in Probably Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois (21)
   Died: 16 DEC 1932               in Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois (3)
 Father: Esa BOALBEY
 Mother: Zina Mary BOAGEL
Spouses: MARY
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   Wife: Sunshine FARAH
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   Name: Chames FARAH
   Born: 19 APR 1899               in Syria (10)
   Born: JUL 1899                  in Syria (11)
   Born: 1900 (12)
   Born: 19 APR 1900               in Syria (13)
   Died: 16 JUN 1952               in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana (14)
 Father: Kaleel FARAH
 Mother: Hosson KANTOOS
Spouses:
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Children
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01  (M): James M. BOALBEY
   Born: 19 MAR 1919               in Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois (18)
   Born: about FEB 1919            in Illinois (19)
   Died: 14 SEP 1936               in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana (20)
Spouses: 
02  (M): Alexander Esa BOALBEY
   Born: 28 MAY 1920               in Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
   Died: 22 JUN 1998               in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Additional Information

Saleem BOALBEY:
Residence: APR 1910, Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois 4
Residence: JAN 1920, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois 5
Residence: APR 1930, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois 6
Immigration: 19 JUL 1901 7
Immigration: 1902 8
Immigration: 1903 9

Sunshine FARAH:
Immigration: 04 NOV 1899 15
Residence: 14 SEP 1936, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana 16
Residence: 13 DEC 1944, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana 17

Footnotes

  1. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
  2. Death certificate.
    gives the birth date, birth place given by son Alexander. The town name may be Ain Charra, which is highest Syrian village on Mount Hermon (about an hour from Damascus , the Capital of Syria).
  3. Ibid., #32020173.
    filed 22 Dec 1932.
  4. U.S. Census; 1910 Williamson County, Illinois.
    He was living at 205 Jefferson St.
  5. U.S. Census; 1920 Alexander County, Illinois.
    he is living at 1301 Commercial Ave.
  6. U.S. Census; 1930 Alexander County, Illinois.
    his address is recorded as 1401 Commercial Ave., though this is probably an error. In 1920 he was recorded as living at 1301 Commercial Ave. and when he died in 1932 he was still living there.
  7. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
    He arrived at Ellis Island under the name "Hanna Abou Olbe" on the S.S. Olbia on 19 July 1901 en route to his "cousin George Nesser" in Fort Wayne, IN. He was traveling with "Selim Tannous" his future brother-in-law.
  8. U.S. Census; 1930 Alexander County, Illinois.
  9. U.S. Census; 1910 Williamson County, Illinois.
  10. Compilation of dates.
    Her children knew her birthday as 19 April. She immigrated in 4 Nov 1899 and was said to be 6 months old at that time.
  11. U.S. Census; 1900 Allen County, Indiana.
    This census indicates the month and year of birth, that she is 10 months old and that she was born in Indiana, but Ellis Island records show that she entered the U.S. on 4 Nov 1899 and that she was 6 months old.
  12. Cemetery marker.
    This year cannot be correct because an immigration record shows her entering the United State on 4 Nov 1899 and she was said to be 6 mos. old at the time.
  13. Assumed.
    Her daughter Martha gives her birthday as 19 April, but her obituary says she was 52 years old when she died in June 1952. Her place of birth is alternately given in census records as Syria or Indiana.
  14. Obituary, Terre Haute Tribune Star; 17 June 1952.
  15. Ellis Island passenger records.
    She was traveling with her mother and was six months old at the time. They came from "Beyrouth" on the ship Patricia out of Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Her name in the records is spelled Chames Farah.
  16. Obituary.
    of her son, James, gives the family's address at his time of death as 1520 Chase Street.
  17. Vigo County, Indiana Marriage Licenses.
    her daughter, Norma, gives the family residence as 2008 Locust St.
  18. Allexander County, Illinois birth records.
  19. U.S. Census; 1920 Alexander County, Illinois.
  20. Obituary, Terre Haute Tribune; 15 Sep 1936, p.2.
    He died of head injuries suffered when he was struck by a car.
  21. U.S. Census; 1930 Alexander County, Illinois.
    place of marriage assumed.

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