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Isadore Cerf, Veteran Ennis Merchant, Dies

Ennis, Texas, Oct 9.  [1934]

Isadore Cerf, 73 years old, for forty-six years a
prominent merchange of Ennis, dided at his home
here at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, following an
illness of four days with influenza and pneumonia.

Funeral services will be held at the home here at 9
o'clock Thursday morning, with burial in the Hebrew
Cemetery at Corsicana. Dr. David Lefkowitze of
Dallas will officiate, assisted by Dr. H.S.
Sprigail of Ennis.

Mr. Cerf is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Cerf;
a son, Louis Cerf of Ennis; a brother, Leon Cerf of
Ennis, and a sister, Mrs. Rosalie Wahl of
Luxeville, France.

Mr. Cerf was born at Mittelbronn, Lorain, France,
April 11, 1851. He came to the United States in
1869, landing at New Orleans. He was first engaged
in the general merchandise businee at Calvert,
later at Corsicana, and opened his present business
with his brother here in 1877.  He accumulated
substantial interests and had long been prominent
in local business circles.
Notes from the Historic Marker at the Ennis Public Library which is on the site of the Cerf home.  Photo of the home itself: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/cerfhous7183gph.jpg

In July of 1876 Leon and Isadore Cerf, born in
Loraine, France, immigrated to Ennis, and
established a grocery store in the one hundred
block of South Main Street. They were among the
first merchants to establish businesses in Ennis.
They were successful and they prospered, and in
1904 Isadore and Mamie Shwarts Cerf built a
fourteen-room house that was a replica of the
Missouri Hospitality House at the 1904 World’s Fair
in St. Louis, Missouri. The house and grounds
occupied the south side of the five hundred block
of West Ennis Avenue. An ornate, black metal fence
marked the boundaries of the property, and red
roses grew along the fence. The house deteriorated,
and was demolished, but the fence lives on in the
design of the courtyard of the new library. A small
portion of that fence with gate surrounds the
marker honoring Jack Lummus.  

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