Beccy meehan biography of abraham

When Elzo Dell Barton was born on 24 November 1904, in Mantee, Webster, Mississippi, United States, his father, William Stokes Barton, was 45 and his mother, Irene "Rena" Emma Forrester, was 33. He had at least 1 son with Clara Rebecca Meehan. He lived in Beat 5, Webster, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Beat 5, Clay, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 April 1971, in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Clay, Mississippi, United States.

Kathryn Tracy Rizzi: This begins an interview with Rebecca Lubetkin, on November 18, 2019, in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, with Kate Rizzi. Thank you very much for having me into your house and doing this oral history interview.

Rebecca Lubetkin: My pleasure.

KR: To begin, where and when were you born?

RL: I always have a problem with this because my birthplace was New York, because that's where the hospital was, but my first home, where my parents lived, was Kenilworth, New Jersey.

KR: What is your birthday?

RL: 12/7/1938.

KR: I want to ask you about your family history. What do you know about your family history, on your mother's side of the family?

RL: Well, I know my mother was one of ten children, five boys and five girls, and they lived in Far Rockaway, New York, which is out on Long Island. My mother was number four. She and two brothers graduated from Cornell. She graduated in 1933. [Editor's Note: Cornell University is an Ivy League university, located in Ithaca, New York.]

KR: How did your mother's side of the family end up settling in Far Rockaway?

RL: You know, I don't know the answer to that. I do know that the tendency was--they were not immigrants--the tendency at that time, which was the late 1800s, was that the immigrants would come in and they tended

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