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Eliezer “Louis” Levi was born in Derhitchin, in the Grodno region of what is now Belarus to Shmuel Levi and his wife Channa Ita Gratz, the 5th of eight children. He was born June 2, 1883.
He traveled from Drohitchen with his mother sometime between 1886 and 1891. Shmuel had left for the United States and Channa went to Jerusalem on her own with six children.
Louis left Palestine for the United States, arriving in New York on 13 November in 1900. He went to Chicago at first and eventually settled in Boston, MA, where he worked as a tailor.
He married Sarah Mochedlover on 12 July 1911 in Boston and they went on to have three children, Simon Levy (1912-1982), Isabelle Barbara Levy (1918 – 2010) and Edwin Richard Levy (1925-1999). The family moved from Boston to Waterbury, CN, temporarily, around 1920.
Sarah was born in Warsaw Poland. Her family owned the Paris Paper Box, Co. in Roxbury, MA. Some of Sarah’s siblings adopted the surname Nigrosh. Sarah died 18 August, 1944, in Massachusetts.
After Sarah died, Louis remarried to Rose (surname unknown).
He died 12 November, 1952 in Lynn, MA. Louis and Sarah are both buried in the Pultusker Cemetery in West Roxbury.
