SAMUEL BERNSTEIN, Winn Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Printing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** SAMUEL BERNSTEIN Samuel Bernstein, an old and highly respected citizen of Ward 9, Natchitoches Parish, La., was born in Prussian Poland, June 21, 1816, to Julius and Bertha Bernstein, who were also born there becoming the parents of the following family: Samuel, Isaac, Robert, Gustav, Philip, Maurice, Augusta, Rebecca, Adolph, Mary and Joseph. Robert, Gustav, Rebecca and Adolph, died in Prussia, but the rest came with their parents to America, since which time the parents and Augusta have died, the death of the latter occurring on September 19, 1853. Mr. Bernstein died in Kingston, N. Y., March 17, 1868, and his wife in the same place January 7, 1876. Samuel Bernstein was the first of the family to cross the ocean, this being in 1842. Philip came next in 1845, followed by Isaac in 1847, by Maurice and Augusta in 1850, and the parents with Mary and Joseph in 1857. Isaac and Mary reside in Kingston, Maurice resides in Winnfield, Winn Parish, La., and Joseph in Coushatta, Red River Parish, La. Samuel Bernstein learned the tailor's trade in his native land, and was there married in 1842, to Miss Charlotte Yachetsky, and came immediately with her to America, embarking at Hamburg July 27, and after a voyage of sixty two days landing at Castle Garden, New York. They made their home in the city of New York until the fall of 1845, when they came to New Orleans which place they reached September 27. In the spring of the next year they removed to Little Rock, Ark., and the fall of the next year to Pine Bluff, returning in the spring of 1848 to Louisiana, locating in Rapides Parish, and for five years resided on Little River and five years in Alexandria. In 1858 he removed to Montgomery, Grant Parish, where his wife died June 3, 1888, soon after which Mr. Bernstein removed to a farm which he owns in Ward 9, Natchitoches Parish, a part of which he had purchased in 1863. He now owns a good farm of 200 acres, the greater part. of which is under cultivation. He is a member of the Hebrew Church, and in politics he is a Democrat. During the greater part of his residence in this country he has been engaged in merchandising, this extending over a period of forty eight years. Although in the seventy fifth year of his age he is hale and hearty, and would readily pass for a man many years his junior. His brother, Philip, who also resides in this parish, was born April 10, 1827, and came to America on the vessel "Shenandoah," and for a few years made his home in New York City. He then came to Louisiana and located in Rapides Parish, but in 1858 went to Grant Parish, and on July 12, 1859, was married in Montgomery, to Miss Rosalie Marks who was born in Gnesna, Prussia Poland, May 10, 1840, to Marcus and Rena Marks, the latter of whom died October 3, 1860, in Prussia, and the former still resides in that country. She came to America in 1857 and in 1887 removed with her family to Natchitoches Parish and located in Ward 9, where he now resides. He and his wife have had a family of eight children as follows: Albert M., Henry, Augusta, Julian, Rudolph, Nettie, Arnold and Bertha, all of whom are living with the exception of Augusta, who died at the age of twenty two months. Albert M. (Is a physician and a graduate of a New Orleans Medical College, being now a resident of Montgomery), Henry (graduated in a New Orleans law college and is a prominent member of the bar of Winnfield). The parents of these children are members of the Hebrew Church, and in politics the former is a Democrat. Both Samuel and Philip Bernstein, and the family of the latter, are among the best citizens of this locality and have a large circle of warm friends. Samuel is a Royal Arch Mason, which order he joined in New Orleans, February 11, 1866. Philip is also a member of Montgomery Lodge No. 168, having been made a Mason in 1860.