# Esther Friedman (b.1878) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔴 **Dahne — Sarah's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **wife's 2x great-grand-aunt** **Born** 01/22/1878 — [[New York]] **Died** 08/13/1965 — [[Atlanta]] **Parents** [[Louis Friedman (b.1850)]] · [[Hanna Schwartzberg (b.1847)]] **Spouse** [[Jacob Joseph Epstein (b.1877)]] **Children** [[Harold Nathaniel Epstein (b.1914)]] **Siblings** [[Samuel Freidman (b.1870)]] · [[Harry Friedman (b.1871)]] · [[Phillip Friedman (b.1874)]] · [[Annie Friedman (b.1876)]] · [[Jacob Friedman (b.1878)]] · [[Ida Friedman (b.1882)]] · [[Solomon Friedman (b.1884)]] · [[Benjamin Friedman (b.1886)]] · [[Saul Friedman (b.1888)]] *GEDCOM I142725035843 · Dahne tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Esther Friedman was born 22 January 1878 in [[New York]], a daughter of [[Louis Friedman (b.1850)]] and [[Hanna Schwartzberg (b.1847)]]. She grew up in a large sibling group of at least ten — among them [[Samuel Freidman (b.1870)]], [[Harry Friedman (b.1871)]], [[Phillip Friedman (b.1874)]], [[Annie Friedman (b.1876)]], [[Jacob Friedman (b.1878)]], [[Ida Friedman (b.1882)]], [[Solomon Friedman (b.1884)]], [[Benjamin Friedman (b.1886)]] and [[Saul Friedman (b.1888)]].[^siblings] The census records that survive for her sketch a life in two chapters. In the earlier enumerations she appears in her parents' household as a single daughter, and one such record lists her occupation as shirt maker[^shirtmaker] — needle trades of that kind were common employment for young women in the New York garment economy of the era (context). By the time of the later records she was married and enumerated as a wife; her husband was [[Jacob Joseph Epstein (b.1877)]]. One of these later records gives her occupation as "None" and another as "Proprietor,"[^proprietor] the latter suggesting she at some point kept or ran a business, though the records preserved here do not name it. Esther and Jacob had a son, [[Harold Nathaniel Epstein (b.1914)]]. She died 13 August 1965 in [[Atlanta]], at the age of 87. [^siblings]: Sibling [[Samuel Freidman (b.1870)]] is recorded with the spelling "Freidman" in the source; the others carry "Friedman." [^shirtmaker]: MyHeritage / census extract: "Occupation: Shirt Maker; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter." [^proprietor]: MyHeritage / census extracts: "Occupation: None; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife" and "Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife; Occupation: Proprietor." ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions