The Markow Family Tree

Information about this branch of family is from son Edwin Silverman. Sol was born in 1894 according to the 1900 census and according to his son. Information from the Jewish Historical Society, read to me by Ed's wife Zella, gives year of birth as 1896. Month of Solomon's birth provided by the 1900 census, when he was a six year old living with his parents. He was named for his grandfather, Solomon Silverman (ES) who, consistent with Jewish tradition, had recently died (WPO). Sol married Mary Ellen Lazarus who was born in Baltimore. They settled in Norfolk, Virginia, where Mary Ellen's brother worked as a signpainter and Sol had been stationed as a naval reservist during World War I. There Sol opened a tailor shop, almost certainly with Harris' financial backing. Their son Edwin, Sol's only child, was born there in 1920, but the couple separated two or three years later and were divorced. Mary Ellen later married Herbert Joynes, and after he died during the Second World War, worked as a secretary for the navy. She died in 1958. Sol and his son lived with his parents until, at some point, Sol married Margaret Murphy and moved to an apartment in Pikesville. Sol met Margaret, a buyer at Bonwit Teller in Baltimore, through his nephew Arnold Silverman. Margaret was not Jewish, and was known to the family as "The Duchess." The marriage ended in failure in 1928 or 1929. Sol moved back in with his parents. ES. The recollections of a niece who grew up with son Eddie, Madeline Golde Rubenstein, Sol and Eddie lived with Harris and Rebecca, Madeline and Madeline's mother Cima (Sol's sister) after his first marriage. When Sol married Margaret Murphy, Sol and his new wife and his son lived in Pikesville. Margaret was a buyer for Hutzlers [a well known Baltimore department store -ed.] and was very nice, and bought them all fancy clothes, but was not nice to Eddie. MGR. Around 1932, Sol took up with Dorothy Dixon, a cashier at a local movie theatre, Lutheran, and twenty years younger. The marriage caused an irreparable falling out with his parents. Dottie, who was twenty or twenty-one, sometimes same with visiting orchestras. The marriage lasted, Dorothy Silverman Simmons, non-Jew, is buried in a Jewish cemetery, Emmanuel Cemetery, in Houston, Texas. The burial was arranged by Sol's son Edwin, who told with pleasure that his father was buried in 1959, the only Jew in a public cemetery in Rockland, Texas, while he arranged for "Dottie" to be buried in a Jewish cemetery by using the middle name to suggest she was Jewish. [The last name, Simmons, suggests that she remarried, but I do not know. - ed.] ES. According to Barney, Sol worked in the family clothing business until it closed, and then he had a restaurant, before moving to Texas to be near his one son. AS. By another account, Sol and his brother Louis "attempted to run" the clothing business after Harris' death. MGR. According to his son, when Harris died, Sol became a salesman for Silverman Brothers. He would travel to a small city and place an ad in the paper announcing that a representative of Silverman Brothers would be in town for the following week to take orders. People would come in, be shown sample materials and designs and place orders for the company to manufacture, to be finished off by a local tailor. When the business failed in the depression, Sol ran his own tailor shop for years, called the Houghton Tailoring Studios. His "studio" was written up in Menswear Magazine in 1937 or 38. The store was not cheap, and Sol prepared wonderful windowdressings using crepe paper. When that business failed, Sol worked as a sales manager for Bismark brewery, and later bought "The Senator." A men's hotel and bar. Sol was not a conservative businessman; he was " wild, someone who drank, gambled, caroused and womanized." Sol, like his nephew Arnold Silverman, was a tennis player. They played on the tennis courts right across the street in Druid Hill Park. In fact, Sol was city or regional champ. Sol and Arnold were close friends, according to Eddie, until a falling out in 1941 over some occurrence at Arnold's country club.

Sol Silverman Caller-Times News Service ROCKPORT - Sol Silverman, 6S, of Rockport, was dead on arrival at a Corpus Christi hospital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at a motel there. A resident here 10 years, he was owner of Del Mar Grill. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Silverman; one son, Edwin P. of Houston, and two sisters, Mrs. Cima Goldie of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Toby Seigel of Pitsburgh, Pa. Funeral services will be held in Cage-Marshall Funeral Chapel, Rockport, Friday at an hour to be announced. Rabbi Sidney Wolfe of Temple Beth El, Corpus Christi, will officiate, and burial will be in Rockport Cemetery. The body will be'taken to Rockport Friday morning. Cage-Mills Funeral Home of Corpus Christi is in charge of arrangements.