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Chambersburg,
Pa.
born c.1825 Münchweiler [?], Germany
died May 24 [?], 1868 Chambersburg, Pa.
Here is buried
Elieser [?] ... Lauferty [?] ... on Wednesday, 4 Tammuz [?] [5]628 [?].
May his soul be bound in the bond of life
Additional information:
Husband of Rachel (Stine), whom he married
in August 1865. This was possibly his second marriage, as he is likely
to be identical with Lazarus Lauferti who, together with other Jews
from his home town Münchweiler, arrived at the port of
New York on July 24, 1854. The manifest of
the ship "Rhodes"
shows him travelling with two women and
a little child. Another fellow traveller of Lazarus Lauferti was
Bernhard Felsenthal, also from Münchweiler, later to be one of
America's most influential Reform rabbis.
In 1860 Lewis Lauferty lived with his brother's family in Warsaw,
Indiana. By 1865 he had established himself as a merchant in Three
Rivers, Michigan. It appears that after his marriage he worked as a
travelling salesman for his father-in-law, Alexander
Stine.
The epitaph is very badly weathered and partly illegible. The dates in
the English and Hebrew inscriptions do not match, as the Hebrew date
corresponds to July 24, 1868.
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