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The first two weeks were spent in acquainting myself with the immediate
neighbors:
-- Rebecca and her new husband, Khatcher Agha Gedigian of Shar (a village
north of Hadjin), who had emigrated in 1913. (This good-hearted couple would be very
helpful to my wife a decade later.) They had a son, Harry, at that time, and Paul was
waiting for his chance to be born later.
-- Aghvor, Rebecca's oldest sister.
-- Mariam, Aghvor's daughter, and her second husband. (The first, Yeremia, had
died in the first month of their coming to the United States.
-- Alice, Mariam's younger sister.
-- John and Siranoosh Vartanian, Russian Armenians, excellent friends with one
child. He was in the rubbish-collecting business and had a huge truck. In those days
having a car or a truck was a mark of distinction. John would pick up books with his
collections and give them to me, because neither he nor she could read English.
And outside the neighborhood, on nearby streets, there were other friends:
-- Uncle Hampartzoum Malian and his wife Noyemi, with their three children:
My favorites, Nectar (Vicky), now 14, Vartan, 11, and Stephen, born on the first day the
Malian family set foot on American soil.
-- Uncle Aram, one of Hampartzoum's younger twin brothers.
-- Stephen Avak Mehagian and his two younger brothers, Haigaz and Levon.
(Stephen a few years later married Mary, the eldest daughter of martyred Dr. Armenag
Haigazian, the president of Jenanian College at Konia, and in 1957 founded Haigazian
College at Beirut in memory of his father-in-law.)
-- Missak Manisajian.
I FOUND A NAME FROM THE URL BELOW. BUT HOW CAN I FIND HIS SONS I DO NOT KNOW...
Page 7
The first two weeks were spent in acquainting myself with the immediate
neighbors:
-- Rebecca and her new husband, Khatcher Agha Gedigian of Shar (a village
north of Hadjin), who had emigrated in 1913. (This good-hearted couple would be very
helpful to my wife a decade later.) They had a son, Harry, at that time, and Paul was
waiting for his chance to be born later.
-- Aghvor, Rebecca's oldest sister.
-- Mariam, Aghvor's daughter, and her second husband. (The first, Yeremia, had
died in the first month of their coming to the United States.
-- Alice, Mariam's younger sister.
-- John and Siranoosh Vartanian, Russian Armenians, excellent friends with one
child. He was in the rubbish-collecting business and had a huge truck. In those days
having a car or a truck was a mark of distinction. John would pick up books with his
collections and give them to me, because neither he nor she could read English.
And outside the neighborhood, on nearby streets, there were other friends:
-- Uncle Hampartzoum Malian and his wife Noyemi, with their three children:
My favorites, Nectar (Vicky), now 14, Vartan, 11, and Stephen, born on the first day the
Malian family set foot on American soil.
-- Uncle Aram, one of Hampartzoum's younger twin brothers.
-- Stephen Avak Mehagian and his two younger brothers, Haigaz and Levon.
(Stephen a few years later married Mary, the eldest daughter of martyred Dr. Armenag
Haigazian, the president of Jenanian College at Konia, and in 1957 founded Haigazian
College at Beirut in memory of his father-in-law.)
-- Missak Manisajian.
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