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Husband: Ellis KANTOOS
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   Name: Ellis Kantoos HANNA
   Born: before 1840 (1)
Married:
   Died:
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Spouses:
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   Wife: Katherine NASSER
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   Born: before 1843 (2)
   Died: after 1909                in Ine Isha'ara, Syria
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Children
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01  (M): Mose KANTOOS
   Born: about 1858                in Damascus, Syria (3)
   Born: about 1853                in Syria (4)
   Died: 30 JUN 1945               in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (5)
Spouses: Mary ROBERTA
02  (M): Shaheen KANTOOS
   Name: Chahin GANTOUS
   Born: about 1865                in Syria (6)
   Died:
Spouses: 
03  (M): Thohare KANTOOS
   Name: Daher GANTOUS (8)
   Born: about 1865                in Syria (9)
   Died:
Spouses: ZEINE
04  (M): Joseph KANTOOS
   Name: Youssef GANTOUS (10)
   Born: about 1867                in Syria (11)
   Born: about 1875                in Syria (12)
   Died:
Spouses: >>>
05  (M): Habeeb KANTOOS
   Name: Habib GANTOUS (13)
   Born: 12 FEB 1870               in Damascus, Syria (14)
   Born: FEB 1874                  in Syria (15)
   Born: about 1877 (16)
   Died: 27 AUG 1942               in Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois (17)
   Died: after 21 FEB 1936 (18)
Spouses: Jalele HANNA; Hilway HANNA
06  (M): Salim KANTOOS
   Name: Selim GANTOUS (19)
   Name: Sam KANTOOS
   Born: about 1872                in Syria (20)
   Born: about 1871                in Syria (21)
   Died:                           in Ine Isha'ara, Syria
Spouses: SELINA?
07  (F): Hosson KANTOOS (22)
   Name: Hosson HANNA (23)
   Born: MAY 1878                  in Syria (24)
   Born: about 1881                in Syria (25)
   Born: 1881                      in Syria (26)
   Died: 20 FEB 1936               in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana (27)
Spouses: Kaleel FARAH
08  (F): Kate KANTOOS
   Name: Kalack KANTOOS
   Born: between 1870 AND 1880 (28)
   Died: after 20 FEB 1936 (29)
Spouses: Joseph DAVID

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Additional Information

(02) Shaheen KANTOOS:
Immigration: 04 JUN 1900 7

Footnotes

  1. Estimated.
  2. Ibid.
  3. U.S. Census; 1930 Cook County, Illinois.
  4. U.S. Census; 1920 Cook County, Illinois.
  5. Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950.
  6. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
    His age was given as 35 on 4 June 1900.
  7. Ibid.
    He arrived on the S.S. Statendam, on 4 June 1900 en route to his brother Habib in Fort Wayne County, Indiana.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Ibid.
    His name is recorded as "Daher Gantous" and his age was given as 34 on 2 June 1899. His destination was given as his "friend" A.S. Daas at 60 Washington St. in New York City. This was evidently an address used by many Syrian immigrants at this time.
  10. Ibid.
  11. U.S. Census; 1900 Allen County, Indiana.
    His age is given as 33 and his marital status as married 2 years. His year of immigration is given as 1899. There is a record of a 24 year old, Youssef Gantous arriving in New York on 2 Jun 1899 along with Habib Gantous. Which age is correct?
  12. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
    "Youssef" arrived on the same ship as his brother Habeeb, and his age was given as 24 on 2 June 1899.
  13. Ibid.
  14. Death certificate.
  15. U.S. Census; 1900 Allen County, Indiana.
    His age is given as 26 and his marital status as married 1 year. His year of immigration is given as 1895.
  16. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
    At his arrival in 1912, his age was given as 35.
  17. Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950, Certificate #0000196.
  18. Assumed.
    He is listed as a survivor in his sister's obituary dated this day.
  19. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
  20. U.S. Census; 1900 Allen County, Indiana.
    His age is given as 28 and it indicates he's been married 3 years. His year of immigration is given as 1899. There is a record of a Salim Gantous arriving in New York on 2 Jun 1899 along with Habib.
  21. Ellis Island Immigration Records.
    His age was given as 28 on 2 June 1899.
  22. Vigo County, Indiana Marriage Licenses.
    The marriage record of her daughter Elizabeth gives her name as Helen.
  23. Ibid.
    application of her daughter, Mabel.
  24. U.S. Census; 1900 Allen County, Indiana.
  25. U.S. Census; 1920 Alexander County, Illinois.
  26. Cemetery marker.
  27. Obituary, Terre Haute Tribune; 21 Feb 1936, p.2.
  28. Estimated.
  29. Assumed.
    She is listed as a survivor in her sister's obituary dated this day.

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