Herman Kadetsky's family mystery grows.....Part 2

Google is amazing. I was researching a Kadetsky branch and google brought me back to my own post on this blog for the answer. I originally posted about Herman Kadetsky's family remarking about multiple wives, multiple Charles, a missing son and a new one and the consistent Rose Sherer. (http://kadetskyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/10/herman-kadetskys-family-mystery.html) Herman was a brother of Sussman Kadetsky from the Israel MOshe Kadecki family tree.

Through the Pennsylvania Ancestry Archives I found the 1948 death certificate for Hyman Kadetsky. It lists his wife as Jennie Fried. His first wife, Hinda Kadetsky nee Neufeld, had died 2 years earlier in 1946. So it is evident that Jennie Fried was Hyman's second wife. Hence her obit lists Charles, Jacob and Rose Sherer as her children.

The second part of our mystery centers around the son, Jacob Kadetsky. Hyman and Hinda had four children, Abraham who died as a child, Charles (who I don't have much info about), Moses (who totally disappears by the 1940's Census), and Rose who marries Leonard Sherer owner of Sherer Oil Company. It turns out that Moses' high school yearbook in 1919 lists his nickname as "Jack" and his college yearbook from Penn State University in 1922 lists his name as Jacob Moses Kadetsky. A search on familysearch.org shows that Jacob Kadetsky of Cambria, PA has the same birthdate as Moses Kadetsky of Cambria, PA.

Looking back at the 1940 Census for Herman's family, I have a strong suspicion that the census taker or the person supplying the information to them made a mistake. Instead of Charles and Jacob being brothers to Herman Kadetsky, they were likely his sons, Charles and Jacob. They both were not married at that point (they may have never married). Just goes to show that the census could be misleading.....

Regarding Sherer Oil Company, you can read about it here http://www.sfc1959.com/files/CE_SHERER_S.doc It was located in South Fork PA. The writer describes the business dating back to around 1920. I like it when genealogy really becomes a story of family and local history. Its not much Kadetsky history but I have included it here since Rose Kadetsky Leonard Sherer who is described in the sketch.