The Fred Elton Award

"The Fred Elton Award was established to honor the memory of composer/lyricist Fred Elton. His life was brief but his musical legacy lives on, not just in the works he created but in the family of musicians that play his piano, create silly songs and share his love of tritones. We hope that it will help deserving students achieve all their musical dreams. It is given with love by Faye Greenberg, David Lawrence & Mable Elton Lawrence."

Link to page with the above. Nice photo of Fred, who resembles Henry. The infant with him is his daughter, Faye Greenberg, who is also a songwriter. David Lawrence (son of Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme) is Faye's husband and songwriting partner. Mabel Elton Lawrence is their daughter.

Fred's published songs are cataloged on the Data Base Of Popular Music website

Another reference to Sylvia Marshall

From Google Books ("Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life" by Donald McKayle)
Sylvia mentioned as an accompanist

Music Arranged By Sylvia Marshall

From the Holocaust Memorial Center

"Delakova, Katya and Berk, Fred. Jewish folk dance book / music arranged by Sylvia Marshall. NY: National Jewish Welfare Board; 1948."


From Amazon.com

# Unknown Binding: 45 pages
# Publisher: National Jewish Welfare Board (1948)
# Language: English
# ASIN: B0006ARVQU

Izzy and Bessie's 50th Anniversary

David Marowitz recalls that it was held on 2nd Avenue in the 60's. I had had the false memory of it being in the 50's. The 1910 census lists Izzy as unmarried which is consistent with David's recollection.

From an email from Ruth Cameron

...."Some of the Lozowicks changed their name to Lane so as to get jobs. Hence Harry Lozowick was also the father of Bert and Eddie. I guess it was Dora, and not her daughter Marion, who married first Sam, and then his brother Harry, Lozowick.

Jonah PULMOWSKI was the name. He married Ida ROSENBERG. Her brother, Baruch, settled in England and had 4 or 5 children, most of whom we know fairly well: Mary Rosenberg Baum; Sophie Rosenberg Salmons, and Harry Rose. Mary was the mother of the 4 Baum boys and Linda, some of whom are/were well known to Mom and Dad, and Phil and Beth Waldor. Sophie Nan will remember well. She and her husband, Mickey, went to the Ukraine in the 1970's and met some of the Rosenberg relatives, notably a woman in her '80's (the men of her generation having been deported) and her middle-aged sons. I recall Sophie saying that they were "all doctors and musicians." But then she would say that (strong on emphasis and possibly shorter on accuracy). Lillian Salmons Gellnick, Sophie's daughter, might have more details. I could get her phone number if you want. Not in touch for years.

The Pullman children: IZZY, son of Jonah's first marriage, born c. 1890; came to NYC at about 16 when his mother died...DORA, 6 months younger, daughter of the second wife (Ida)...MINNIE, born c. 1892...SAM, born c. 1900... PAUL (born Saul) 1902..., MILLIE, born c. 1904, CELIA, born c. 1906, and the baby, EDDIE, born c. 1912.

Dora you know. Minnie married a Mr Marshall (another anglicised name) and they had 2 daughters: Sylvia, died young, divorced, no kids (45ish) and is it Millie? or similar? Mairowitz, mother of the Johanna Marshall Robert sent a link to. I remember Johanna as a little girl, very fussed over as an only child. I think she was younger than Robert?

Sam married Anna Javits (cousin of the late senator or was he governor?) Had Mimi and then Norman.

Paul you know.

Millie married Henry Seigel and they had Freddie and Judy; both died young. Judy had 2 children: Lisa and then Andy. They must be around somewhere.

Celia married Hank Horowitz and they had 3 girls. Actually I think she must have married someone else earlier because the oldest girl, Edith, who married a Cohen, seemed separate from the younger ones: Helen and Carol. Possibly Helen and Carol had a 3rd sister (other than their half-sister Edith). Nan will remember Carol I think. She's halfway between us in age, nice person, a teacher, and visited us in the UK when Rob was small.

I well remember when Celia died because no one notified the NYC area relatives (she was living in Fla) and Dad heard about it when someone in the Fla area made the connection and sent him a news clipping...what a shock and how very insensitive. I can see his face now. We were in Cresskill by then.

Eddie married first Jean, who became mentally ill and eventually died in an asylum; they had Barry, born 1938, who married an Englishwoman; eventually they moved back to the States and later divorced. They had 2 kids: Jane and David, Jane being Rob's age (I seem to recall to the day but that might be a false memory!), i.e., 40 and David a few years younger. I think that Barry is still there. Might be in Texas. His younger brother, Michael, I know little about.

My own burning ?: WHERE ARE BETH AND PHIL and WHAT ARE THEY DOING? That's 2 ?s...
"

Freddie Siegel

Freddie Siegel was a song writer who died young, of leukemia I think. He had one hit song, "You You Romeo", initially recorded by Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme. Others covered it, notably Shirley Bassey:
"The Bewitching Miss Bassey Philips" B 10743 L Album LP 1959

www.amazon.co.uk/You-Romeo/dp/B001GQR71W

itunes.apple.com/us/album/born-to-sing/id286557182

Social Security Death Index about Edward Pullman

Name: Edward Pullman
SSN: 110-05-9113
Last Residence: 75206 Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Born: 29 Jul 1912
Died: Jul 1983
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)

Eddie Pullman

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)
about Edward Jay Pullman
Name: Edward Jay Pullman
Birth Date: Jul 1912
Death Date: Jul 1983
Age at Death: 71
Burial Place: Texas

1910 Census Record

Name: Isidore Pullman
Age in 1910: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1888
Birthplace: Russia
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Father's Birth Place: Russia
Mother's Birth Place: Russia
Home in 1910: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male
Year of Immigration: 1908
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Morris Schaffer 34
Rachael Schaffer 35
Jacob Schaffer 1 9/12
Bertha Schaffer 6
Isidore Pullman 22

WWI draft card for Izzy (?)

Name: Isidor Pullman
City: Bronx
County: Bronx
State: New York
Birthplace: Russia
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1887
Race: Caucasian (White)
FHL Roll Number: 1753933
DraftBoard: 1

address on image is 790 East 160th St

Draft Registration Record for Izzy 1942

Name: Isador Pullman
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1889
Birth Place: Kief
Residence: Bx, New York
Race: White
Roll: WWII_2247383

Is this Izzy Pullman?

Name: Isador Pullman
Home in 1920: Bronx Assembly District 1, Bronx, New York
Age: 31 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1889
Birthplace: Russia
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Beatrice
Father's Birth Place: Russia
Mother's Birth Place: Russia
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Year of Immigration: 1903
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 282
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Isador Pullman 31
Beatrice Pullman 29
Henrietta Pullman 9
Sidney Pullman 5

1930 census record

Name: Ida Pullman
Home in 1930: Bronx, Bronx, New York
View Map
Age: 62
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Birthplace: Russia
Relation to Head of House: Head
Race: White
Occupation:

Education:

Military service:

Rent/home value:

Age at first marriage:

Parents' birthplace:

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Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Ida Pullman 62
Mildred Pullman 23
Edward Pullman 17
Henry Siegel 21
George Siegel 19

1920 census record

Name: Julius Pullman
Home in 1920: Brooklyn Assembly District 2, Kings, New York
Age: 55 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1865
Birthplace: Russia
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Ida
Father's Birth Place: Russia
Mother's Birth Place: Russia
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Year of Immigration: 1900

1900 census record

Name: Julious Pullman
[Jul Pullman]
Home in 1900: Manhattan, New York, New York
Age: 37
Birth Date: May 1863
Birthplace: Russia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1897
Relationship to Head of House: Head
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Spouse's name: Ida
Marriage Year: 1888
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 12

From Yulia Ivashschenko

Hello, Robert!
You are predicted by Relative Finder as my 3th Cousin.
I have Ukrainian, Polish, Austrian, Jewish, Moldavian/Serbian ancestry.
Ukrainian, Polish, Austrian surnames: Ivashchenko, Dzyuman, Labysh, Gretchaniy, Tchernenko. They lived in Kiev gubernia.
Moldavian/Serbian surnames: Sorotchan, Myrza. They lived in Kherson gubernia.
My Jewish line this is line of my grandmother (my father's mother).
Those surnames from her family trees: Kamenetsky, Blyakher, Burchteyn, Zaslavsky, Natanzan, Berdytchevsky, Tomaschpol'sky.
2 sisters my great-grandfather immigrated to USA and Canada from 1914-1920.
I think the connection in the family trees should be by female lines. But I don't know any female surnames. You can look at my family tree here: http://forum.vgd.ru/post/165/22000/p570584.htm#pp570584
My Jewish ancestors lived:
- in Tcherkassy (Kiev gubernia) from 1850 to 1930;
- in Shpola (Kiev gubernia) from 1816 to 1915;
- in Boguslav (1795(?) - 1850), before 1795 may be in Kamenets-Podolsky (Podolsky gubernia)and Belarus or Litva/Polish.


Best,
Yuliya

From Yuliya Ivashschenko

Robert,
what surnames had your ancestors?
My great-grandfather (Yakov Blyakher) had 2 sisters, they immigrated to USA and Canada.
One of sisters (Ester Blyakher) married Zaslavsky and went to Canada (Monreal), soon they moved to Philadelphia. They had 2 children.
The second one (Lyuba Blyakher) was ballerina, she married and went to USA. I dont know her husband's surmame.
But, this information can be a mistake.

Best Regards,
Yuliya

From Natalie Andre

Allan,
It was so great talking with you just now! I am copying this to my brother, Robert Pullman, so both of you can keep in touch. Also my sister Ruth Cameron, who at the moment is totally unaware of any of these inquiries, so it will be a surprise for her. Because neither he nor I nor Ruth remember our various relatives, for this email at least, I will be including information which you already know.

Bob had had his DNA tested, out of curiosity, and several strangers have written asking if we might be related--including one woman in the Ukraine--and this made us realize that we have very little information about the Pullman side of the family.

I called your sister, Janice Waldor, at the number you gave me, (973) 721 4005, but I could not get through. Maybe she can call me.

I did locate your niece (daughter of your sister Arlene Wiener) Ellen Stern in Boca, (561) 482 3567, and she will call me back--she was on her way out; she was very excited about this.

My number is (561) 495 5412 and cell (561) 702 9192. Best to call me in the morning.

Here is a synopsis of what you told me--more for Bob's and Ruth's benefit (and mine, I will print this out for reference) than for yours; correct me if anything is wrong:

Your mother was Marion Lozowick Waldor, daughter of Izzy and Dora. Dora was our father's sister, I believe, in which case Lozowick would have been Izzy's last name. Am I right?

You mentioned that your sister Janice Waldor is the family historian.

Fay Greenberg Lawrence, originally Fay Siegel (Millie & Henry Siegel's granddaughter, adopted by her stepfather Greenberg) married the son of Steve Lawrence and Eddie Gorme; she and her husband created the music for "High School Music"; I will let my son know this.

That's about all I got from our all-too-brief talk. Your phone number is (609) 395 1565 and, according to the internet, you live at 2 Barbara Fritchie Ct, Monroe Township NJ 08831. Correct?

I live at 14782 Wood Lodge Lane, Delray Beach FL 33484

--Nan (Natalie Pullman Andre)
natandre44@gmail.com

From Ruth Cameron

Are you sure that Marion's father was called Izzy? Wasn't it Sam? Or Harry? Or maybe that was her husband's name? There was an account Mom used to tell me about how Marion was married first to the one brother (Harry or Sam) and then he died (in wartime?) so she eventually married his brother.

Phil Waldor, Allan's elder/est son, and his wife, Beth, stayed with us for a month or two in 1975/6, at the beginning of his 6-month residency in South London. He went on to become a surgeon. We kept in touch for awhile, and visited them in Phila. the following year, but then drifted apart as you do. They had 1 baby then, but later 2 more, all girls, and we saw Beth and the girls when they were en route to Israel some 12 years later. They're very nice people; we often wondered what had become of them all.

Natalie Andre

some corrections and additions to what I sent yesterday:
Janice Waldor's number is 973 731 4005
Spelling: Arleen Waldor
Fay Elton not Fay Siegel--her father Freddy changed his name to Elton
Marion Waldor was the daughter of Harry Lozowick and Dora Pullman; his brother Louis Lozowick was famous; her brothers were Bert Lane and Eddy Lane

From Natalie Andre

Allan,
I just got off the phone with your sister Janice; she said to ask you for details! (So much for your claim of her being the "family historian") Below is what I began to pull together, but there are so many holes. Can you give as much information as you can remember? Just type stuff--I will sort it out into a structured family tree.

Right now, if you can supply my grandfather Jonah's original name (Janice couldn't remember it) before you do anything else, and send it to me in a reply, that will help a lot. My brother and that Ukrainian possible relative have been emailing information back and forth, but without even an approximation of my grandfather's name, we are stuck.

Here is what I have compiled so far:

Jonah Pullman real original last name: ______________

Ida Pullman neé _____________

In order: Izzy, Sam, Paul, Eddie (sons)

Daughters (not in order): Dora, Minnie, Millie



Do you know the order of all the children?



Minnie had Sylvia & Mildred Marshall

Mildred neé Marshall had Johanna



Dora (neé Pullman) Lane (married name) had Marion, Bert & Eddie (what order?)

Marion (neé Lane) Waldor had Allan, Arleen & Janice (what order?)

Eddie Lane’s children:



Bert Lane’s children:



Etc.

From Alan Waldor

let me backtrack-celia and hank horowitz had 4 daughters 'edith, helen joan and carol. edith was widowed many years ago .her husband was jacob(jack) cohen.
Eddie had multiple marriages and lived in Texas.
eddie lane married Frances Berman and had 2 children,Gary

From An Email From Johanna Marshall

Robert.......I'm back now at the computer so I can chat a bit now. M mother passed away about 4 years ago. It was rough. She had health problems and then dementia was setting in. Miss her. My father is still going strong , being 88 next month. Still lives in N.Y. at the house you & Nan came to. He has a movie memorabilia business from the house. He advertises in a mag. called "Classic Images". I built a website for him and he sends me the ad every month and I put it on his site. He wants nothing to do with computers and anything that's technical/modern. His site is :www.davidmarowitz.net aka the lucky star. His e mails come to me and I answer based on what he tells me for customers. And that's the way that works. check it out if you're into old movies sometime.
I truly don't remember that about Sylvia. I barely remember you & Nan, but I do.
I'm in California now. Have been since 1977. I won't go into the details of my life the past 10 years, but let's say I've been crawling back or up the ladder to where I want to be. My passion is to be a performer, and of course trying to sell my music to whomever will lend me an ear. Things have changed a lot in 30 years. It's even tougher now.
so that's it for just an insight into me now.

An email from Johanna Marshall

Robert, I talked to my father this morning about hearing from you. He was recalling people, places ,etc, that I have no recollection of. He lives in Spring Valley which is about a half hour from the city. (over the Tappan Zee Bridge) If you wanted to call him his # is 845.623-8115. He has a special rate on his phone so if you call him, he can call you back so it won't cost you.
Your pictures are lovely. I don't know who Bobby Stock is but I am in L.A. also. I'm curious how you found me even though you said you googled me and you didn't know my surname was Marshall. What exactly did you put in as a search to find me?????
Funny, I"ve been all over the world but I've never been to Chicago.................like another N.Y. I presume.......
I didn't know if you saw my site @ www.johannamarshall.net. There's audio & video clips on there. That's basically me even though about 2 years has passed since that was posted. The pix are recent.
I"m sure my father would know any remaining relatives...........Hope you get to talk with him........................