Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Another session with Sarkis

Identifying the date of Garabeds death has added some certainty to the facts. I sat with Sarkis and started to focus on some specific facts. Information from Williams email was most helpful as it prompted Sarkis and he added the rest. Garabed and Hapet apparently had an argument about Politics/fighting. Hapet was a member of the Political party Tashnug in 1912. Hapet and his two sisters did not go with Garabed to Cis. They stayed in Musa Dagh as Hapet did not agree with his father. Garabed and his family were not killed in Cis. They were killed on the road making their way back to Musa Dagh from Cis in 1908 or thereabouts. Anania was found and given to Hapets Sister Mary (Marianne). Mary was a widow and had a daughter to her husband, a soldier. Mary kept Anania at Musa Dagh for up to 4 - 5 years and then gave Anania to the British Commissioner and taken to Jerusalem, where he was brought up by the Church orphanage. He was given away as the sister could not re marry easily with a child. Marys daughter was also given to up for adoption to a Doctor in Syria.

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